Xiamen: The apprentices of the famous masters of the answering drum are all inheritors

[News Page-Taiwan Straits Network]

According to a report by the Xiamen Evening News on January 4, the "Selected Works of Lin Pengxiang's Songs" which included the works of the master of the drum of the mouth drum was recently officially published, and the third official ceremony of the city's drum circle was also held at the press conference. It is reported that the book lasted three years to collect and sort out, and was compiled by Lin Xingxing, the provincial inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage protection project, the disciple of the master of the drum, and the director of the Xiamen Pengxiang Drum Art Transmission Center.

Lin Pengxiang has been engaged in the art of answering mouth drums for 40 years and has created a large number of works. Lin Xingxing said: "Teacher Lin's works carry the imprint of history, which can also give us a glimpse of the silhouette of cultural development and the moments of social change. More importantly, it carries something that can be learned in a certain period, and the positive energy that gives us inheritance and protection. The "Selected Works of Lin Pengxiang's Songs" published this time includes Lin Pengxiang's answering drums, Qianqu rapping, three and a half sentences, and Qian opera and other categories of works.

Yang Minmou, You Guodong, Lin Xingxing, Xiao Yirong, Liu Gengen, Huang Jingqin, and Zheng Jian, the representative inheritors of the national and provincial representative inheritors of the national and provincial representatives of the national intangible cultural heritage project, were held at the scene, and the four apprentices were all inheritors of the district-level answering drum. Lin Xingxing said that holding the ceremony of worshipping teachers under the principle of mutual voluntariness is to embody the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation of respecting teachers and emphasizing religion, as well as the excavation and extension of the essence of traditional culture. (Text/Photo: Reporter Dai Yi)