A few days ago, at the Tai'an International Convention and Exhibition Center, the "Lunan Flower Drum" performed by 7 elderly team members was rigid and soft, delicate and unrestrained, which won the warm applause of the audience.
On the same day, the "Deed of River Harmony: 2021 Yellow River Basin and Intangible Cultural Heritage Exchange and Exhibition Week along the Grand Canal" was launched in Tai'an. Lunan Flower Drum was invited to participate as the intangible cultural heritage of Shandong Province, and 18 intangible cultural heritage projects such as blue printing and dyeing technology, Taierzhuang Boat Lady, Liuqin Opera and other intangible cultural heritage projects taierzhuang Canal Cultural and Ecological Protection Experimental Zone participated in the exhibition.
Shandong is the only province in the country that sits on the "two rivers" of the Yellow River and the Grand Canal, and is rich in excellent traditional cultural resources. The exhibition of traditional crafts for the revitalization of the Yellow River Basin in Shandong Province is divided into five sections: "Gold, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth", and a total of 78 intangible cultural heritage items such as Yellow River clay pottery printing, engraving and printing techniques, and Lupai inner paintings are exhibited.
Lunan Flower Drum is an intangible cultural heritage of Shandong Province, born in Taierzhuang, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, and widely spread in Lunan, Northern Jiangsu and other places. The performance style of Lunan Flower Drum highlights the characteristics of humor and humor, but also loses the graceful, smooth and delicate charm, reflecting the strong local style. The Lunan flower drum performance is generally composed of 5 people, and the props and costumes are simple and simple, close to the lives of the people.
At the beginning of 1987, long Xuemei, a 26-year-old folk artist at the time, began to participate in the excavation and reorganization and re-rehearsal of the Lunan flower drum, which was on the verge of being lost, and on the basis of retaining the original charm, the artistic elements such as the fishing lantern song and the canal trumpet along the canal were integrated into it, and the number of actors also increased, up to dozens of people. In October 2018, Long Xuemei was included in the fifth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects in Shandong Province as the representative inheritor of Lunan Flower Drum. At present, she has trained more than 2,000 backbone students of Lunan Flower Drum, and at the same time exhibited and performed to tourists in taierzhuang Ancient City, allowing tourists to feel the charm of Lunan Flower Drum at zero distance. (Reporting by Meng Lingyang, client reporter of Dazhong Daily, correspondent Zhang Yanxin)