News from CCTV: Every Spring Festival, the sonorous and powerful sound of the majestic gongs and drums in southern Shanxi will resound through the mountains, fields and villages. As my country's first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, the majestic Gongs and drums not only have a long history of more than 4,000 years, but also have a broad mass base. In Linfen Huozhou alone, there are more than 20,000 people skilled in majestic gongs and drums. So why do so many people like majestic gongs and drums? Today's (January 21) "Cultural China Tour" allows us to follow the camera to understand this folk percussion music that has been passed down for thousands of years.
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In the past few days, after the busy farming season, men, women and children in Huozhou, Shanxi Province, could not suppress their deep love for the majestic gongs and drums. They gathered together to play drums and gongs to prepare for the upcoming Spring Festival performance.
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Zhang Yong, who has been engaged in the performance and research of Wei Feng Gong and Drum for more than 30 years, is the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage of Wei Feng Luo and Drum in southern Shanxi. He told reporters that Weifeng Gongs and Drums were originally called "Gongs and Drums" and commonly known as "guys". They are mainly distributed in Linfen City, Shanxi Province and counties such as Huozhou and Fushan.
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It is understood that Weifeng Gong and Drum is a percussion art form played by four instruments: gongs, drums, cymbals and cymbals. It is rich in content and diverse in form, integrating music, dance and skills. The strong and vigorous postures, rough and bold characters, and energetic momentum of the majestic gong and drum performers all reflect the bold and unrestrained character of northern men living on the Loess Plateau.
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Exciting drum beats and heroic rhythm, The majestic gongs and drums not only show the unique charm of this ancient folk art, but also convey the vigorous and uplifting spiritual outlook of the people and play the happy movement of a better life in the new era. At the same time, gong and drum artists in southern Shanxi continue to innovate and develop the majestic gongs and drums. On the basis of retaining the traditional performance style, they incorporated modern music elements and dance choreography to make Wei Feng Luo and Drums more contemporary and ornamental. With the help of new media and new technologies, the Wei Feng Luo and Drums can be passed on further and wider.
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