Chinese Story 丨 Xi'an Drum Le: Inherit the Millennium Relics in Innovation

In April of this year, Xi'an Dongcang Drumle Club began to broadcast live on the short video platform. In just three months, the number of account fans increased to 420,000, and the search volume of the entire network reached 160 million times. More and more audiences across the country and even overseas began to pay attention to Xi'an Drums -the "Ancient Symphony of China" this thousand years ago.

The stage drama "Drum" was combined with the innovation of Datang Lewu and Dongcang Drum Le of the Tang Furong Garden in Xi'an. Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Xiao

Xi'an Drum Leming Sound comes from Datang

Xi'an Drum Music has set a source of the Sui and Tang dynasties. It has been circulated in the Guanzhong Plain area centered on the Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty for more than a thousand years. It is a typical representative of traditional Chinese instrumental culture and is known as "the living stone of ancient Chinese music." Because of the large number of performances, there are more than 20 types of percussion instruments, tube -blowing instruments and strings instruments, so they are also called "ancient Chinese symphony".

In 2006, Xi'an Drum Music was included in the first batch of national non -heritage lists, and in 2009, it was included in the UNESCO "Human Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative List".

According to research, Xi'an Drum Le was born in the Tang Dynasty court Yanle (feast music). When the Anshi chaos, it flowed into the folk. Later, due to different performance styles, it was divided into three genres: monks, Tao, and vulgar. In the long history of history, the court music was affected by folk culture and changed several times, but it always contained the relationship with the music of the Tang and Song dynasties.

Xi'an Gulo Club follows the music scores written by the Song Dynasty vulgarity. Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Xiao

"The structure of Xi'an Drum Music is very similar to the Tang Da song. The ministry is similar, and at the same time, it also preserves more than a thousand songs of various types of genre since the Tang and Song dynasties.

It originated from the Sui and Tang dynasties, and it was flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Memorial fairs, festivals and other activities have provided a platform for the survival and inheritance of the Drums Club. During the heyday, more than a hundred drum music clubs were active in Chang'an City, forming a prosperous scene in urban and rural areas.

Every year in June of the lunar calendar, after the wheat harvest, starting from the five stations of the south of the south of the Qinling Mountains, the Drum Music Club appeared on the city inside and outside the city to start the annual "Folk Music Festival". Sheng Guan Qi Ming, day and night, "Doule" in the same stage between music clubs, the family was drumming and the family was up.

On June 23, Fan Bingnan (first from left), president of Xi'an Dongcang Drumle Club. Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Xiao

Millennium Sheng Drum sounding rhyme together

For more than a thousand years, the living inheritance of Xi'an drums has continued. However, due to various reasons, Xi'an Gulo Club has developed difficulties at the end of the last century. It is almost endangered. There are only six of them so far, and Dongcang Drumle Club is one of them.

Fan Bingnan, the 76 -year -old president of Dongcang Drumle Club, recalled, "I was born in Dongcang Gate, Xi'an. I watched the drum performance since I was a child. What to click. "

In 1978, Fan Bingnan worshiped Zhao Gengchen, a master of Xi'an Drum Music, to find drum artists, to find a musical instrument score with the master, restore the Dongcang Drum Music Club, and began to teach drum music in the neighborhood of the neighborhood.

"Unlike the notation and the five -line spectrum, the Xi'an drum music spectrum continues the Song Dynasty vulgarity scores. Even if you know the spectrum, you don't know the melody. For thousands of years, the charm of the music has been taught by the older generation. There are many songs, and the experts have compiled more than a thousand songs, and only two or three hundred can really play. "Fan Bingnan said.

On June 23, Xi'an Dongcang Drumle Society musician was giving the musicians "Looking at the Hometown". Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Xiao

As the old artists are getting older and the world is successively thanked, the neighbors of the neighborhood have relocated, and the Dongcang drum music was lacking in a succession and was on the verge of loss. In 2004, Dongcang Drumle Society broke the rules of "passing men and women, not passing in inside" for more than a thousand years, and recruited children for free children around the villages around Xi'an. In the end, 18 people persisted.

As Xi'an Drum Music has become a non -heritage project, it has become more and more valued. Local government departments actively build drum music document databases, establish drum music institutes, carry out drum enrollment campus activities, organize drum music clubs to participate in various domestic and foreign performances, and continuously promote the cooperation between Drum Music Club and cultural tourism enterprises.

In 2006, Dongcang Grumon Society settled in Ziyun Tower, Datang Furong Garden, began to perform fixed performances. Thousands of years later, the rhythm from the court of the Tang Dynasty returned to the place where the famous Royal Garden was that year. Day after day, year after year, Datang's legacy sounded throughout the park.

The stage drama "Drum" was combined with the innovation of Datang Lewu and Dongcang Drum Le of the Tang Furong Garden in Xi'an. Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Xiao

Drum music has new biography and shared Changan Yun

Over the years, Dongcang Drumle Club has been practiced and interpreted ancient music in accordance with traditional methods. However, it is difficult to attract modern audiences in the form of drum performances of the original ecology.

In 2021, the innovative stage drama "Drum" of Datang Yuewu and Dongcang Drum Music broke the monotonous form of drum music. The drama takes traditional Xi'an drum music as the "soul", supplemented by dazzling stage effects and gorgeous makeup costumes. Through a new way of presentation, "Millennium Live Fossil" is rejuvenated.

In April this year, due to the impact of the epidemic, offline audiences decreased. The young musicians of the Dongcang Drumle Club chose to settle in the short video platform for online live broadcast.

On June 23, the musicians of Xi'an Dongcang Drumle Club performed online live performances. Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Xiao

"The standards of online performances and offline performances are the same. Every day, the musicians will spend a long time to make makeup and shapes to show the audience the best state." Qi Xingfeng, director of Dongcang Drumle Club, said.There are also some innovative tracks adapted from inheritance tracks, such as "Golden Tingle" and "Datang Ritual" adapted from inheritance tracks."The online live broadcast is innovative, and the audience should be interested in." Qi Xingfeng said.

General Planning: Zhao Danping

Produced: Min Jie

Coordinating: Wei Tiemin

Reporter: Liu Xiao

Video: Zhao Yingbo

Xinhua News Agency jointly produced by Xinhua News Agency Shaanxi Branch

Produced by Chinese Story Workshop

[Editor in charge: Wang Yan]

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