Gong and Drum Art (Ezhou brand Gong)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Gong and Drum Art (Ezhou brand Gong)

Applicant: Ezhou City, Hubei Province

Project No.: 622

Project No.: Ⅱ - 123

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: Traditional Music

Region: Hubei Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Ezhou City, Hubei Province

Protection unit: Ezhou Mass Art Museum

Introduction to gongs and drums (Ezhou brand gongs)

Applicant: Ezhou City, Hubei Province

Pai Gong is a kind of folk music with mixed brands. It has a long history and spreads all over the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Ezhou is an important place for the inheritance of brand gongs. In the 1980s, a 1916 brand gongchi manual (manuscript) was found among the folk in Ezhou, including 225 Qupai (including variants) and more than 40 "ideas" of Gongjing.

Chen Huaiqing, the grandfather of Chen Xinfeng, the collector of manuscripts, was also a famous trombone player (Sanjie number) in the former Qing Dynasty. Therefore, Ezhou brand Gong has formed a scale in the middle and late Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 100 years.

There are many kinds of brand Gong repertoire, which are widely used in folk activities such as weddings and funerals, God greeting contests, birthday celebrations and traditional festivals. The instruments for playing the brand Gong are composed of wind and percussion. It can be improvised according to the environment, atmosphere and time. It has the music effect of distinctive main style, rigorous blowing rhythm, changeable rhythm, rich timbre, melodious and smooth, lively and stretching. It can fully display the comfortable and peaceful life scene of the people in shanyehu District, as well as the pursuit of the good wishes of "good weather" and "long life".

With the death of the older generation of brand Gong artists, the art form of brand Gong is gradually forgotten, and is on the verge of being lost.