What is the traditional repertoire of gongs and drums?

Most of the performances of gongs and drums are based on long and medium-sized traditional bibliographies, and the amateur performances after 1949 are mainly short stories and prologues with modern themes. Traditional bibliographies can be divided into "short books" (that is, repetition of musical instruments) and "big books" (that is, books that emphasize martial arts), but most of them are "short books", such as The Transition of the Net and the Boat, kuya, Eight Beautiful Pictures of Gao Qiao, Double Ball, Jade Dragonfly, Pearl Tower and Legend of the White Snake. The great books include Qingqi Charge, Luo Tong Sweeping the North, Hujiajiang, Later Tang Dynasty, Seven Swords and Thirteen Heroes, etc. Short programs such as Wang Po Scold Chicken and Daoxiang in Luhuadang, medium-length programs such as Beating Salt Bureau and Lin Chong Running at Night, and opening programs such as The Name of Wild Flowers in December and The Mantis Kissing are representative. The contents of gongs and drums books are mostly based on folklore, romance novels, family ethics and historical stories, with strong local flavor and local characteristics.

There are many songs in gongs and drums, which can be divided into long stories, medium-length stories and short stories, mostly traditional stories and historical stories. The main traditional and historical bibliographies are Red Shirt Army, Legend of Twin Dragons, Biography of Song Wu, Cutting off the Liver to Save Mother, Fighting Man's Boat, Playing with Money in the Four Seas, Little Sister's Dream, Li's Mourning, Foal of Fire, Walking in Nanyang and so on. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), gongs and drums artists wrote many stories about history and new life, which were well received by the masses. Especially in 1957, the first performance of folk art, puppet and shadow play in Henan province, the song "Little Sister Dreaming" adapted from Lushi's gongs and drums won many awards such as adaptation and performance, which won the honor for Lushi.