What does lizhou drum mean?

Lizhou Drum is a traditional folk art in Lixian County, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, and it is a comprehensive performance form integrating song, dance, music and ci. It originated in the middle of Ming Dynasty and has a history of 400 years. Lizhou Drum, with its unique artistic style and profound cultural connotation, has become an important carrier of cultural exchanges between northern and southwestern regions of China and a cross-regional form of popular literature.

The drum sound, spring sound and gongs and drums of Lizhou Drum are vigorous and powerful, which, together with singing, dancing and expression forms, form the unique musical artistic style of Lizhou Drum. The songs are calm and deep, revealing the profound heritage of national culture. Dance is beautiful, showing a long history and the expression of people's thoughts and feelings. The performance takes drums, reed boards and gongs and drums as the main musical instruments, and combines shouting, duet, drumming and performance, which is rich in variety and strong in appreciation.

The performance form of Lizhou Drum not only shows exquisite skills and artistic beauty, but also expresses the spirit, thoughts and concepts eager for unity, harmony and prosperity, which has humanistic care and social significance. It plays an important role in local inheritance and development, and also provides an important platform for cultural exchange. At present, Lizhou Drum is being more widely recognized and paid attention to, and continues to develop in the inheritance, adding more colors to the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.