Hancheng gongs and drums
In China, during the New Year holidays, festive days and praying for rain, you will see gongs and drums performances. Shaanxi gongs and drums have a unique style of lively rhythm, rough and unrestrained, high passion, changeable forms and grand momentum, which can be performed in the wild and suitable for stage performances. The performance atmosphere is warm, the movements are colorful, and the performance is inspirational and masculine. There are many kinds of gongs and drums in Shaanxi, among which Ansai waist drum, Luochuan jumping drum, Yichuan chest drum and Xianyang Niula drum are famous. However, when it comes to types, it is still necessary to count the gongs and drums in Hancheng, known as white-faced gongs and drums. There are various forms of gongs and drums in Hancheng, but the main factions and forms are divided into Hancheng Walking Drum and Hancheng Surrounding Drum.
Hancheng xinggu
Gu Hang in Hancheng, commonly known as "Ku millet", is widely spread in Hancheng. Historically, almost older villages have their own gongs and drums. No matter on holidays or praying for rain, you can always hear passionate gongs and drums. Hancheng drum has a long history.
Hancheng Waigu
Hancheng Waigu was originally named Xichuan Gonggu (because Hancheng Waigu is mainly distributed in Hancheng Xichuan area). Among them, the drums around the twelve villages in Xuefeng (now Wangcun) are the most famous. Because living in Xuefeng, it is also called Xuefeng Waigu. Legend has it that Feng Xue's gongs and drums were handed down from the Northern Song Dynasty. During Song Liao War, Xue Fengchuan was at the forefront of the war. According to legend, Yang Jiulang of Yang Jiajiang often led the Northern Song army to fight here. Later, in memory of Yang Jiajiang, Yang Jiajiang's drum music was handed down. Later, after thousands of years of inheritance and innovation, a large number of drums were produced. These drums combined the cultural life, festivals and celebrations in rural areas, or expressed the joy of bumper harvest during farming, or expressed the pious mood of offering sacrifices to ancestral temples and praying for God's blessing, forming the Hancheng drum that combines today's war drums with festivals and offering sacrifices to ancestral temples. On holidays, there is always a core in the queue of social fires in Hancheng. "Nan Yuan" is a drama of hanging the core, about Zhang Yugao, thrilling and enthusiastic; The northern platform is popular with the back core, which is cheerful, unique and distinctive. Back-core performance is often interspersed with tiger fighting (that is, solve riddles on the lanterns) in history, which has a strong cultural charm.
Hancheng yangko is a local opera that has been circulating for a long time in Hancheng, and it has a strong song and dance color. Its beautiful singing is deeply loved by the people of Hancheng. When other operas occupy the stage, they also enter the queue of social fire. Gong and drum are a kind of social fire-fighting band. The wild performance of the Yellow River gongs and drums team made the colorful social fire team colorful. Tian family has its own music, farmers inspire spring, and the hundred-sided gongs and drums performed to celebrate the harvest are also deeply loved by Hancheng people.
The first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival, commonly known as the Spring Festival. From a few days before New Year's Eve to the 16th day of the first month, it lasted for more than 20 days, and people were immersed in the festive atmosphere. In the forty-second year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1703), Kang Xingxian compiled "Continued Records of Hancheng County", in which he wrote: "On the day before New Year's Day, Zhong Zhen, the doorkeeper, changed the peach symbol, posted Spring Festival couplets, hung money horses, and planted cypress leaves at the door. A treasure cover is hung high in the room, and bamboo leaves and charcoal are pasted on it to burn incense and soothe the nerves. Five drums burn candles to worship the six gods of heaven, earth, homeland and ancestors, and set off firecrackers until night. Wear new clothes at dawn to pay homage to the elders and relatives. If you meet the road, bow as soon as you bow, and congratulate you with New Year greetings. On the second day of the first lunar month, husband and wife worship their mother-in-law, and nephews worship their uncles. Those who were late were found guilty. On the fourth day of the third year, inviting wine and food is called' eating wine'. Don't go out for five days, this is called' five poverty'. Fourteen nights to test the lights, fifteen nights to worship the gods, headlights. There is an Aoshan Mountain in North and South Second Street, and other streets and lanes are brightly lit and fireworks are everywhere, and scholars and women are scrambling to watch. Or Chen Xi, column delicacies, such as boiling, watching the bright moon lights, that is, "Lantern Festival." /kloc-On October 6th, I steamed food for my daughter and invited my new husband to marry her. It is the night scene of lanterns that is particularly prosperous, and women gather under cypress trees, which is called' traveling all diseases'. On the seventeenth night, the torch was sent to the roadside as a "poisonous insect". During the Republic of China, it was still in accordance with customs, but it was rare to have "five poverty" and "poisonous insects". After liberation, feudal superstitious activities became less and less. After the 1980s, the custom of Chinese New Year was simplified. People posted couplets, set off firecrackers, visited relatives and friends, and governments at all levels organized condolences to the families of martyrs and veteran cadres. Fewer people burn incense and worship God. Observing the content of old age has become sitting around the TV watching cultural programs. However, gifts, extravagance and gambling are on the rise.