Interesting Localities in Xuzhou

Flower Drums, Big Drums, Fishing Drums

The Xuzhou Flower Drums, also known as the "Two-Man Drums", "Playing Flower Drums", "Flower Encouragement Drums", "Tinking Flower Drums

The flower drums of Suzhou, also known as "two people drums", "playing flower drums", "flower encouragement", "tinkling flower drums", "flower drums", "flower drums", "flower drums", "small gongs", "playing dry bang", etc., is popular in the SuLuYuHuAnWan a kind of music (flower drums have also been developed as an art form for opera, dance in some areas).

"Flower Drums and Flower Drums, playing gongs and drums. The women carry colorful balls and the men carry flower drums. Bouncing and jumping, there is literature and martial arts. Tracing the roots, the Jin Dynasty has an ancestor." This is a popular folk song of Xuzhou generation, which shows that the prevalence of flower drums in Xuzhou has a profound historical origin! Xuzhou Tongshan Huangji area also circulated this verbal language: "Huangji people, two pretty; open is the flower drum tune." Huangji people have a preference for flower drums.

The flower drums of Xuzhou, in the long process of development and evolution, have formed different genres with different names. The scope of its activities in Xuzhou as the center, the school has the east, west, south and north of the division. East Road, called "northern Jiangsu flower drums", West Road, called "Henan slip", South Road, called "northern Anhui flower drums", "Dangshan flower drums

The music of the flower drums consists of two parts: the singing and the accompaniment. The first flower drums, accompanied only by drums or clappers, singing can only hit the rhythm, can not restrain the melody; later development of the opera, there are silk and bamboo instruments accompaniment, while the music tunes have a greater degree of development and change.

Flower drum music tunes have flat tune (also known as Yu tune), flat tune WaZi, flat tune YangZi, cold tune, cold tune WaZi, cold tune YangZi, often tune, flower tune, will be tuned, bitter tune, turn the tune, the tune of the goods and so on. The music sound system of five-tone scale and seven-tone scale and use, a play a cavity, very distinctive. Drum playing method, there are Wen playing, martial arts hollowing. The drums are mostly sung in slow and medium speed with clear-cut, regular beat; the drums are mostly used for accompanying movements, which are divided into upward and downward hollowing, left hollowing, right hollowing, front hollowing, back hollowing, standing leg hollowing, rotating hollowing, jumping hollowing, rolling hollowing, etc. The drums are also used in the music of the opera, which is very unique.

The literary part of Xuzhou Flower Drums is made up of two kinds of literature interwoven with rhyme and prose. The rhyming text is sung in song, and each of the several commonly used lyrics has its own specific lyric style. The word style is strictly limited by the frame of musical tunes, and must obey the tunes in terms of syntax, word count, and rhyme. The prose is not much different from the prose in the general category of music and art.

In the form of performance, it can be flexible and changeable according to different situations, such as one person sitting and singing, two people walking and singing, singing and dancing and opera style. Derivation into dance, opera and other forms of expression is produced in this case.

There are dozens of flower-drum songs and dramas passed down in Xuzhou.

The Xuzhou Drum, also known as Huaihai Drum, is a common type of opera popular in the countryside of Xuzhou.

When it comes to the circulation of big drums in Xuzhou, we have to trace it back to "Hao Frustration". Hao Zu name Hao Daitong, Yuan Dynasty people, and Qiu Shiqi and the same worship Chongyang Wang Zhenren as a teacher, training in the Bean Mountain in the Sea of Yu. Qiu Qiqi is honored as Qiu Zu by fishermen and drummers, called "Qiu Zu Longmen School"; Hao Datong is honored as Hao Zu by Xuzhou drummers, calling himself "Hao Zu Huashan School". There are also "big drum from the development of fishing drums, changes in the" statement. General drum artists can rap fishing drums, the two are linked to the same root is not known.

The accompaniment of Xuzhou drums is a drum and a steel plate. The drum is flat and round, both sides of the skin, placed on the drum frame supported by bamboo poles, a knock knock knock, spread far and wide; steel plate is shaped like two half-moons, in the index finger, middle finger, ring finger between the clip, finger shaking hand shaking, jing jing sound. Drums to sit and sing mainly to sing to the excitement, but also stand up to dance.

Xuzhou drums singing gum rough, high, bold, quite a local opera color. Its performance of jingo and iron horse, dragon and tiger leaps the moving scene is particularly good at, enough to let the audience thrilled.

The form of its lyrics, for the upper and lower lines of the poem, rhyming with even lines, sung in a catchy way. It is also accompanied by prose. There are five drums, three boards, and stacked boards, etc. The number of drum sets are "Emergency Wind", "Four Strikes on the Head", "Underwater Colors", "Wind Through Peony The number of drum sets are "Emergency Wind", "Four Strikes on the Head", "Water Color", "Wind through Peony" and "Phoenix Three Nods".

The bibliography of Xuzhou drums includes more than ten kinds of books, such as "Jingzhong Yuefei", "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", and "Rattlesnake Legend".

Fishing drums, also known as Taoist feelings. Originally for the Taoist priests to promote the teachings or praise the Taoist ideology of music, and later gradually used for fund-raising, and spread to the people. It is said that Xuzhou's fishing drums were introduced from Henan Province.

It has already been mentioned above that the fisherman's drums were honored by Qiu Shi as "Qiu Zulongmen School". For example, the famous opera singer Gao Yuanjun is the 19th grandson of the "Qiu Zulong Sect". Xuzhou area of the more famous fishing drum artists are Wei Xingqi (nicknamed Wei fool), Qiu Ben Yue, Lou Bangjun, Zhu Yuancai, Zheng Lianghuai and so on.

The fishing drums are made of about three feet of round bamboo slips, covered with paint, and one end is made of pig's or sheep's protective skin or fish skin taut. When playing the left arm diagonally holding the drum (about 45 ° oblique angle), with the right hand middle finger and forefinger buckle, the sound of "buzzing clang". The left hand holds a simple board, and the drum and the board are crossed or struck at the same time to match the rap. The size and texture of the board varies, generally made of bamboo and wood, the long one is about 50 centimeters, and the short one is about 25 centimeters. When rapping, different rhythms can be produced according to different plots or changes in mood. In general, the narrative, more in the middle of the speed, about seventy-two beats per minute or so. The drums are matched with the boards, which are mainly heavy beats, usually accompanied by five drums and three boards.

People often call fishermen and drummers "Mr." because they wear long robes and horse coats. Before the performance, "Mr." urges the fishermen to sound the drums, the audience comes almost, and then open the book. Rapping, sitting and singing is the main, both standing and walking. Speaking, singing, pay attention to catch the board, take the word, the narrative story emphasizes the feelings, gas, God's performance.