Wood drum dance

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: wood drum dance

Applicant: Taijiang County, Guizhou Province

Item No.: 128

Project No.: Ⅲ - 25

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional dance

Region: Guizhou Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Taijiang County, Guizhou Province

Protection unit: Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center of Taijiang County

Brief introduction of Muqi (reverse Miao Muqi)

Applicant: Taijiang County, Guizhou Province

Wooden drum dance is a folk dance popular among the Miao, Yi and Wa people in Southwest China, which is performed by beating wooden drum. Its drum shape is mostly to intercept the trunk of the natural growth of trees, hollowing out the internal shape. Generally, wooden drum is a part of the large-scale sacrificial activities participated by all ethnic groups. Wooden drum is regarded as the symbol of ethnic groups. The sacrificial activities with beating and jumping wooden drum as the core are full of strong meanings of ancestor worship and nature worship, and have distinct characteristics of primitive culture.

Wood drum dance is a popular folk dance of Miao people in Taijiang County, Guizhou Province. There are mainly two kinds of wood drum dance: anti Pai wood drum dance and Shidong and Gedong wood drum dance. It is distributed in Fanpai village, 26 kilometers southeast of Taijiang County, Guizhou Province. The residents in the village are all Miao. It is said that anti Pai wooden drum originated from an ancient brother and sister who learned to dance with birds and insects. Since ancient times, anti Pai wood drum has been inherited from generation to generation in anti Pai Village.

In the ugly year, when the Drum Festival comes every 12 years, the anti Pai wood drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum drum. The dance has a complete structure of initiation, inheritance, transformation and combination, simple movements, rich combination, warm and heroic style, which shows the living scene and geographical environment of the ancestors and describes the origin of the ancestors. The development of dance adopts a progressive way, gradually pushing the plot to the climax. Each plot has a clear hierarchy and a natural transition. The actors sing and dance at the same time. They move in all five bodies. They shake their hands on the same side and step on two or four beats. The dance is bold and unrestrained, free and graceful. The head, hands and feet are open and close, and the swing range is wide. Reverse row wood drum dance is composed of five drum chapters: "Niu gaodou", "Niu zhaxia", "Xia Difu", "Gao zhaxia" and "zhaxia". It adopts such playing techniques as click, joint attack and staggered percussion. The drums are well arranged and the rhythm is bright. It is organically combined with dance.

Fanpai village is rich in ethnic cultural resources, and it still retains the Miao cultural ecosystem with the main cultural characteristics of Fanpai wooden drum dance. Anti paimu drum dance is an important part of Miao Drum Festival, and also an important cultural link connecting the past, present and future of Miao society.