Theater props of Hubei fishing drums

Fishing drums, also known as dao tube, bamboo zither. Jane board, also known as Jane Zi. Popular in Hubei, Hunan, Shandong, Guangxi and other regions. It has appeared in the Song Dynasty, and is shown in the picture of Acrobatic Children's Opera painted by Su Hanchen (Illustrated History of Chinese Music IV-9). In the Ming dynasty, Wang Qi's San Cai Tu Hui reads: "Fishing drums, cut bamboo for the jacks, three or four feet long, with the skin bubbling up at the head, the skin is the thinnest on pig intestines, and the drums are struck with two fingers. There is also a simple child, bamboo for the, two feet long, four or five minutes wide, half as thick, the end of the slightly outside the reverse. Songs with two pieces of the joint hit to and also".

The fishing drum is made of bamboo tube, tube length 65-100 centimeters, drum diameter 13-14 centimeters, one end of the pig skin, sheepskin or oil film (pig bladder membrane) and become. When playing, the left hand holds the drum vertically, and the right hand beats the drum surface. The fingerings are "strike" (four fingers clap at the same time), "roll" (four fingers continuously and alternately click), "wipe" (four fingers hit the drum to stop the sound), "play" (four fingers flexed), and "play" (four fingers flexed). " (four-finger flexion continuous alternating strikes) and so on.

Jane board made of bamboo, 45-65 centimeters long, 1.7-2 centimeters wide, one end bent outward, two for a pair. It is played with the left hand and is pronounced with the left hand. It is used to accompany the "fishing drum" and "Daoxiang" together with the fishing drum.

In recent years, the reform of the new fishing drums can be played melodiously, called qin drums, its predecessor for the Sichuan folk music "bamboo qin" accompaniment. By sixteen different lengths of bamboo tube composition, tube one end of cowhide or sheepskin, fastened with a bamboo ring, placed in two rows on a wooden frame. They play with bamboo arrows. The sound range is D-f1. The Shanghai Film Orchestra and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music have developed a twenty-seven-tone timpani. Made by Suzhou National Instrument Factory No.3 Tones are arranged according to the rhythmic pattern, with a range of f-g2. It maintains the mellow and quiet sound of traditional fishing drums.

The drums are mainly distributed in Jieshou, Taihe, Yingshang, Linquan, Fuyang, Bozhou, Huiyang, Lixin, Mengcheng, and Shenqiu, Xiangcheng, Zhoukou, Taikang, Dancheng and other places in Henan Province, and the fishermen of Jieshou drums are mainly located in Guangwu Town, Lucun Town, and Gujizhen Town.

Jieshou fishing drums originated in the Ming Dynasty, the exact year is not known, flourished in the Qing Dynasty Daoguang years. 1920 or so, is the heyday of the development of jieshou fishing drums, its influence on the region as far east as Taihe County, Fuyang City, Mengcheng County in Anhui Province, and as far west as Shenqiu County, Xincai County, Dancheng County, Taikang County in Henan Province, and so on.

The Jieshou Fishing Drums are mainly sung, supplemented by the white color, and are divided into the south called "Soprano Fishing Drums" and the north called "Bass Fishing Drums" due to the narrowness of the north and the south of Jieshou. The instrument is a percussion instrument, that is, the fishing drum tube and simple board, the singing repertoire is mostly traditional bibliography, the singing voice is loud and clear, and the euphemisms are beautiful.

Jieshou fishing drum music has been included in the Chinese opera music integration in Anhui subvolume, the relevant experts called it "Anhui opera a flower", known as the "living fossil" of the Yinghe River Basin, has an important cultural and artistic research value, is China's quyuan It is an important cultural and artistic research value, and it is a wonderful flower in China's songwriting world.