Encouragement (Chen Guan's short ear flower drum)

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Drum Dance

Applicant: Guangrao County, Shandong Province

Item No.: 639

Project No.: Ⅲ - 42

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional dance

Region: Shandong Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Guangrao County, Shandong Province

Protection unit: Guangrao County Cultural Center

Brief introduction of drum dance (Chen Guan short ear flower drum)

Applicant: Guangrao County, Shandong Province

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Chenguan short ear flower drum is a unique folk dance, which is popular in Chenguan Township, Guangrao County, Dongying City, Shandong Province and Shanghe county. In the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Hongxiang and Zhang Hongguo from Chenguan village, Chenguan Township, Guangrao County followed their father, Zhang Yanshui, to escape from famine and beg for food. In this process, they gradually learned to play flower drum. According to Zhang Fengyun, Li Xiping and other veteran artists in Shanghe County, Wang Lili, Wang Liyi brothers and Guangrao artists, who made a living by selling songs, learned and mastered the skills of playing flower drum when they wandered to Beijing in 1903, and then spread this form of performance to the lower reaches of the yellow River in Guangrao and Shanghe.

Chen Guan's short spike flower drum is performed by one person playing cymbals, talking and singing, and one person beating drums. The movements are open and unrestrained. He pays attention to "playing field, feet slightly bumping, Eight Legged bow and arrow.". The drum is as light as an immortal. There are thirty or forty routines in drumming, such as Zhang Fei cheating horses, Su Qin carrying sword and so on. Now it is a breakthrough for one person to sing or two people to sing, and many people accompany it with gongs and cymbals. Representative repertoire includes "string Kyushu", "pillow" and so on.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, the party and the government attached great importance to Chen Guan's short ear flower drum. After processing and refining, it was put on the stage, making this folk dance become an art instead of a begging method in the past. In 1956, Li Hongyuan, Zhang Yanshui's apprentice in Guangrao, Zhang Fengyun and Li Xiping of Shanghe County, participated in the folk art performance of Shandong Province and won the prize. Zhang Yi, a folk artist, specially went to Chen Guanxiang to learn short ear flower drum. Her performance flower drum won the gold medal at the sixth youth festival in 1957.

Chen Guan's short ear flower drum expresses his pursuit of a happy life with drum singing. It has unique local customs and is the representative of local traditional culture. It has the research value of Anthropology and folklore.

Chen Guan's short ear flower drum movement is difficult, so it is not popular. In recent years, due to the change of cultural and ecological environment, Chen Guan's short ear flower drum is facing a serious survival crisis, lack of talents, weak inheritance, and urgent need of protection and support.