The group dance "Dream Dance Flower Cymbal Love", which was created and composed with "Flower Cymbal Drum" for the dance elements, won the Gold Medal of the 20th Beijing Student Arts Festival.
The flower cymbal drum is a traditional folk dance with drums and cymbals as props and accompanying instruments. This is a performance that combines two traditional instruments, cymbals and drums, with cheerful dance movements.
Throwing leg cymbals, bouncing steps to cymbals, jumping steps to single-pair cymbals, double cymbals... The main performance routines are "Old Eight Frames", "Three Cymbals Drum", "Long Line Drum", "Dragon Tongtong", "Up-tune Without Frame" and so on. Xiaotangshan Town Houniufang Village "Flower Cymbal Big Drum" is commonly known as "Big Drum Club", also known as "Lei Yin Holy Society , Disciple Flower Cymbal". These 8 words point out its characteristics - the drums are like thunder.
In June 2001, the "Flower Cymbal Drum" of Houniufang Village, which was created and processed, won the highest award - "Mountain Flower Award" in the "Great Wall Cup" Chinese Inspiration Competition held by the China Folk Artists Association. In November 2002, the team went to Itanagi Town, Japan for a cultural exchange performance. In March 2006, he participated in the large-scale concert of the same song "Into Xiaotangshan" of CCTV. The opening ceremony performance of the "2011 Beijing Triathlon World Championship", the performance of CCTV's "Jian Bao" column, and the recording of "Rural Big World" into Changping were all completely successful. In 2008, the flower cymbal drum was selected into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. These achievements are an encouragement to the people of Houniufang Village, and also the driving force for the inheritance and development of the "Flower Cymbal Big Drum" in Houniufang Village.
300 years of indissoluble relationship, from scratch to revitalize the cymbal drum
In Houniufang Village, the reporter met the fifth generation of the flower cymbal drum inheritor - 77-year-old Mr. Gao Ruchang. Listen to the old man's story of the indissoluble relationship between Niufang Village and the flower cymbal drum for nearly 300 years.
The origin of the flower cymbal drum can be traced back to the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Shanxi was affected by the disaster, and a homeless white-bearded grandfather was exiled to Houniufang Village, and the simple and kind villagers properly placed this grandfather. In order to repay the kindness of the villagers, the grandfather passed on the skill of the flower cymbal drum to the people of the village, Gao And Hao, which also achieved a good story about repaying favors.
In the agricultural era, the villagers of Houniufang expressed their hearts with drums and dances, and expressed their wishes with dance styles such as "Crescent Moon", "World Peace" and "Vientiane Renewal", and "Flower Cymbal Drum" became people's spiritual sustenance, which was loved by people for generations.
In 1957, he won the gold medal of the National Folk Dance Competition and was personally received by Premier Zhou Enlai and Mayor Peng Zhen
On May 1, 1957, the Houniufang Village performance team participated in the tiananmen square parade and square performance with a lineup of 50 large drums and 250 pairs of gongs. At the age of 12, Gao Ruchang and his friends won the gold medal in the National Folk Dance Competition for their performance of the flower cymbal drum, and in March of the same year, to welcome Czechoslovaki Prime Minister William Siroky to China, he was personally received by Premier Zhou Enlai and Mayor Peng Zhen.
Due to historical reasons, the flower cymbal drum gradually withdrew from the stage of the times. Until 1973, the former Changping County Cultural Center was ready to let the flower cymbal drums in Houniufang Village participate in the temple fair held in Beijing that year.
Gao Ruchang recalled: "Hao Weidong in the village, together with several old artists, from the selection of small actors to the purchase of drums and cymbals and costumes, almost everything started from scratch. There were only four old drums on all sides, two of which had large holes. The government gave 5,000 yuan and bought 4 drums. Several old artists in the village took 24 children to perform. Chinese New Year's Eve it was snowing heavily that day, and the children were cold and hungry, and they were all freezing and crying. In the darkness of the night, the villagers braved the heavy snow and waited anxiously at the entrance of the village, waiting for the children to return from the performance. ”
In the days that followed, Gao Ruchang and these old artists in the village worked to make ends meet while teaching the children to spend cymbals and drums for decades. Groups of children grew up in the sound of drums and cymbals, and Gao Ruchang unconsciously stepped into the ancient rare years in the thunder echo.
Selected for the national intangible cultural heritage system, he wrote his heart into his will
Love is the greatest driving force for inheritance. In 2000, Gao Ruchang spent half a year collecting information and recording and sorting out the origins, ancient scores and action formations of the flower cymbal drum. "I began to learn the cymbal drum from the age of 9, there are 8 people in our family who can do this skill, my 3 grandchildren have learned the cymbal drum since I was a child, I once wrote a will, asking my son to pass on this skill of these materials."
With the joint efforts of many parties, the Flower Cymbal Drum of Houniufang Village was not only selected as a municipal "Intangible Cultural Heritage", but also successfully ranked among the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2008.
Houniufang villagers Hao Weidong and Gao Ruchang were identified as the fifth generation of inheritors of the flower cymbal drum. Hao Xuhong and Gao Ruchang's eldest son, Gao Zhenpeng, are the sixth generation of inheritors.
When it comes to the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, Gao Ru often said: "It must be authentic and oral." The drum is the soul, and the drummer, like the heavenly soul, wants to be majestic and exuberant, and to be atmospheric. The cymbals are beaten loudly, and the dance should be bright and stretched in a bright rhythm and generous and flowing. I like the cymbal drum too much, afraid it will be lost. ”
According to Liu Wenge, a branch committee member of Houniufang Village, "There is now a female performance team with 60 people in the village, the personnel is relatively fixed, the performance level has been further improved, and often represents the village to participate in various performance activities." ”
Keep the hometown sound, keep the nostalgia, houniufang villagers love the big drum of flowers and cymbals, has been integrated in the blood, this kind of folk dance art full of rich local atmosphere, nearly 300 years carrying the collective aesthetic and cultural identity of the Xiaotangshan people, this inheritance has become the collective memory of generations of Post-Niufang people, generation after generation, becoming the most vivid and precious traditional cultural resources around us.
I'm going to teach until I can't walk...
In the playground of Xiaotangshan Central Primary School, drums sounded, and children danced again and again, cymbals, spoon cymbals, kicks, throwing legs, and picking legs, they stepped on the drums to change their formations and jumped freely in the sun. The instructor' face was full of stretched smiles, the children danced to the rhythm, and the drums became more and more exciting and cheerful...
"Now it's still 3 lessons a week, some of the movements I can't do anymore, I can still guide the young teachers on the field to do the movements," said the old man Gao As usual, "Only by letting the cymbal drum enter the school and let the children fall in love with the cymbal drum, can the drum sound be passed on." As long as there are students who want to learn the flower cymbal drum, I will teach it until I can't walk..."
Teachers of Xiaotangshan Central Primary School, Chen Qinglin, Qin Jingying, Sun Limei, Xia Heyi, and Wu Hongjie worship the inheritors Mr. Gao Ruchang as teachers
Teacher Chen Qinglin of Xiaotangshan Central Primary School took a photo when he visited the teacher
Recently, the reporter interviewed the young teacher mentioned by the elderly Gao Ruchang - Teacher Qin Jingying of Xiaotangshan Central Primary School, she said, "All year round, whether it is windy and snowy, or cold winter and heat, teachers are riding bicycles, teaching us hand in hand, from action to Shen Yun, the children's little progress is condensed with their painstaking efforts." ”
"On April 2, 2009, I will always remember this day, it was the first day I walked into Xiaotangshan Central Primary School to teach." The sixth generation of heirs Hao Xuhong clearly remembers this commemorative day, 13 years of time passed suddenly, she is still the same as the original for the cultivation of these cymbals and drums, poured all her efforts.
Since 2009, with the support of all parties, the flower cymbal drum has entered the campus. Hao Weidong, Gao Ruchang, Hao Xuhong, Gao Zhenpeng and others began to teach flower cymbal drums at Xiaotangshan Central Primary School and Xiaotangshan Middle School.
In recent years, more than 500 students from Xiaotangshan Primary and Secondary School have participated in the study, and more than 60 students have participated in various important performances and won many honors.
In 2015, Xiaotangshan Town Center Kindergarten also introduced this activity into the campus and widely promoted it among teachers. So far, the "Flower Cymbal Big Drum" has formed a seamless inheritance model of kindergarten, primary school and middle school in Xiaotangshan Town.
Over the years, Xiaotangshan Town Party Committee, town government actively encourage, vigorously support the activity of the flower cymbal drum, in 2013, Houniufang Village Cultural Square established the "flower cymbal drum" inheritance base, of which the venue covers an area of 500 square meters, the exhibition hall of 240 square meters, the rehearsal hall of 260 square meters, so that the history of "flower cymbal big drum" has been better preserved. In 2015, the town allocated nearly one million yuan to support the construction of relevant unit bases and the purchase of equipment. Xiaotangshan Town will continue to provide support for the inheritance and development of the "Flower Cymbal Big Drum" in Houniufang Village.
Drums, flowers and cymbals dancing, Xiaotangshan HouNiufang National Intangible Cultural Heritage, how proud and proud! The value of intangible cultural heritage is not only in the form of externalization, but also in the cultural memory of generation after generation carried by intangible cultural heritage, generation after generation of Xiaotangshan people, inheriting and guarding the spiritual homeland, they know their hometown, love their hometown, they keep the hometown sound, and the children pass on the hometown sound! This beating musical symbol has turned into a shining cultural business card of Xiaotangshan, shining with dazzling light!
Text/Beiqing Community Newspaper Yu Lei
Some of the images were provided by the respondents
Editor/Zhao Yahui