Representatives of Jingdong Taiko Drums

Deng Diankui

Beijing East Drums rose to prominence during the Fu Jiazhuang era (around 1770). Deng Dengkui took his distant ancestor, Qing Yunfeng, and his recent ancestor, Li Wentong, and discharged the following characters: "Qing, Wen, Kui, Lian, Yong, Baobao, Jing, Huai, Yu, Cheng", and took on students to pass on his art. He took on many disciples, especially in the areas of Xianghe, Baodi, Jixian, and Sanhe, and his favorite disciple, Chen Liandeng, was the first to pass on the art. Chen passed on the art to Zou Yongshan, a native of Zhujiapu in Baodi County, and Zou passed on the art to the Pijiapu Yu brothers, Yu Qi and Yu Jiu (Yu Baoqing). Through the efforts of several generations of transmitters, so that the Jingdong timid drums in the lyrics and singing and other aspects have been greatly improved, during which the contribution of Yu Qi is more outstanding.

Yu Qi, whose real name is unknown, was active during the reigns of Xianfeng, Tongzhi, and Guangxu (about 1851--1909), and was originally a scholar, but because of the lack of a career, he followed his brother, Yu Jiu, to "go down to the sea" to tell books. He revised and organized the traditional book lyrics, and widely absorbed the musical materials of folk songs and ditties, especially the popular field songs around Xianghe, Baodi and Anji in the southeastern part of Beijing, which enriched the singing style of the Beijing Eastern timid drums. This kind of field song is an improvised folk song sung by farmers when they are resting from working in the fields, and it is called "Lele stop stop", or "Lele stop tune", and also "Leiting tune". Generally, it has four lines and stops when it is sung. This absorbed the field song after the creation of the new cavity has a wide range of influences, many imitators, Yu Qi also quickly became the most famous drum book artists around the eastern part of the capital.

Zhang Zengde

At the same time, Zhang Zengde (nicknamed Zhang Crippled Old Man and Zhang Tieban), a drummer from Leiting, Baodi County, absorbed the "Lele Stop Stop Tune", which was known as the "Tune of the Ground", and performed it. His masterpieces were "Breaking Down the Western Chamber", "Liu Ling Drunk", and "Dongbin Collecting Medicine". After he revolutionized the singing voice than the original slow tune, such as the opening of the first singing line "not open the book I first table this first time ai cough", a long trailing cavity up to more than ten boards, later called "thirteen cough".

Wang Xianzhang

Slightly later than the seven in the plum door of the heir Wang Xianzhang, also known for singing Leiting tune, when the people of Beijing East, said the best singing drum book belongs to the "South in the seven, the North Charter". Later generations of artists also called "South Yu Qi, North Charter" is the most contributing predecessor of the Leiting tune drums.

At the same time, the popularity of the Jingdong timid drums wide range, become popular in the north of Hebei Chengde, Langfang, Zhangjiakou, Baoding, Cangzhou and Tangshan part of the county, and even Beijing, Tianjin and the northeast of the big port of the big song, and its aliases gradually more and more up. 1880 Wang Xianzhang went to the northeast of the show, sang the Jingdong timid drums to his hometown is named Pinggu tune drums. In the Northeast, he recruited many disciples, and when he returned to his hometown, he recruited disciples again and called the performance "Pinggu Tune", and when he went to Beijing in his later years, he also called it Leiting Tune Drum.

Chen Shanji

The artist's name is Chen Huaide, born in 1911 in the village of Dawangma, Xinji Town, Sanhe City. Sanhe City, folk artists, to sing Jingdong drums and Leiting drums (people in this city called "Pinggu tune" also known as "iron sheet drums" and "Jingdong timid drums"); is the rural faction of the Jingdong drum representative The character is a representative of the rural faction of the Jingdong drum.

Chen Shanju has been a great fan of big drum books since childhood. Whenever there was a market or temple fair, he would go to the bookstore to listen and learn, and when he returned home, he would imitate it privately. They do not have pear board (big drum book board) will use agricultural tools ?? head smashing system instead. When he was about 20 years old, he was able to say long books such as "Yang Family Generals", "The Case of Mr. Liu", and "The Legend of the Five Dragons". Because of his grandmother's opposition, from the art of big drum book career has not been able to wish.

In 1932, his grandmother died, Chen Shanju with the art of drumming "Qingmen" artist Zhang Mingkui as a teacher. He sold his skills and begged for a living all over the northeast of Beijing. Often with his uncle Wei Yongfu (father of the famous opera performer Wei Xikui, so Wei Xikui called him his senior brother) partnership. In the Northeast, had "rolling Guandong" also known as "Wave Liu" Liu Jinshan with the bookstore, the drum master Wang Xianzhang (Pinggu people, known as the South in the seven North Charter of the King of the Drums) of the praise.

After the founding of the country, the famous opera performer Wei Xikui three times down the book invited him to Beijing to work in the arts, only for various reasons did not go into. 1960, joined the Black Mountain County Opera Troupe in Liaoning Province, due to ill-health back to his hometown to recuperate to the countryside so that it will be farming side in the nearby countryside to sing. 1984, the city of Sanhe City, the city's cultural and artistic performance, has been seventy years of age, Chen Shanjiu sang its masterpiece of singing "Huarong Road", the cavity spitting words, temperament, and the quality of the voice, and the way to the city, the city of Sanhe City.

Chen Shan-ji engaged in the art of drum book for decades, sang a lot of repertoire, long: "Yang Family General", "small Sui and Tang Dynasty", "Liu Gongcheng", "Kang Xi's private visit", "five dragons", "the water prison of the Golden Seal" and so on nearly a dozen. Short pieces include: "Huarong Road", "Borrowing Arrows from a Straw Boat", "Battle of Changsha", "Wujiapo", "Liu Yun Beats His Mother", "Baoyu Visits the Sick", and dozens of others. Self-created repertoire includes: "Advise the Landlord to Bow Down", "Military and Civilian Combined Against the War", "Cannonballing Yongdingmen" and so on.