As for the origin and evolution of Fan Shi music in Fuzhou, long ago, folk dragon lanterns prevailed in Fuzhou. Later, this percussion music for accompaniment gradually differentiated and became a solo performance. When playing, the instruments used are wolf strings, gongs and cymbals. Knock on the street during the Lantern Festival, knock when meeting immortals, knock when weddings, funerals and celebrations, and knock on birthdays. When the decoration ceremony is still monotonous and unsatisfactory, we consider adding orchestral instruments, including flutes, violins and coconut trees, as well as drums and gongs. In order to balance the volume, every orchestral instrument uses even numbers, that is, double flutes. Double tubes and whiskers. At this time, there were ten kinds of musical instruments used, and the scale of the band was basically formed.
The birthplace of Fan Shi music in Fuzhou is the Tea Pavilion. Obviously, it was first formed and became popular in cities, and then gradually spread to surrounding rural areas and five districts and eight counties in Fuzhou. It also spread to Ningde, Jianyang, Nanping, Gutian, Fuan, Zherong, Xiapu and other places. Fan Shi's music has been widely circulated among the people for nearly 300 years with its unique charm, and is deeply loved by the broad masses of the people. The unique musical instruments it uses have played an important role. Traditional musical instruments include flute, violin tube, coconut tree, cloud gong, wolf string, gong, cymbal and drum. With the continuous development of music, sheng, wooden fish and other musical instruments have been added. Fan Shi's musical instruments are very old and should be living fossils of musical instruments. As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Chen Liang, a minqing musician in our province, had The Story of Le Shu's Wolf String Teasing the Tube. The playing forms of Fan Shi's music are divided into sitting and walking, and its playing arrangement is very particular. It is mainly used in folk activities such as welcoming gods, people's weddings and funerals, family banquets, etc. Most of the tunes of Fan Shi's music are based on the relationship between man and the natural society, reflecting a certain artistic conception, and some also show ancient legends and stories.
Fuzhou Tea Pavilion's promotion and inheritance of Fan Shi's music has gone far beyond the scope of musicology, and it is an invaluable treasure to explore and preserve Chinese ethnology, folklore, cultural comparison, cultural communication, ethnodemography, history and many other disciplines.