Taiping Drum originated in the Western Han Dynasty and was originally used to boost morale, sacrifice, dance and music in the war. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Da designed soldiers to dress up as social fire teams and hid weapons in drums and mixed them into the city, which became an emotional expression of people's yearning for peace and tranquility.
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Lanzhou Taiping Drum is a traditional dance in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, and it is one of the national intangible cultural heritages. Lanzhou Taiping drum is a kind of Han drum with strong northwest customs, which is mainly spread in Lanzhou, Jiuquan and other places in Gansu Province. Because it has a beautiful meaning of celebrating peace, it is one of the favorite performances of local people.
Lanzhou Taiping Drum is known as "the first drum in the world", and it is also called "the five drums in China" together with Ansai waist drum, Weifeng gongs and drums, Kaifeng pan drum and Fengyang flower drum. On May 20th, 2006, Lanzhou Taiping Drum was listed as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
Taiping drum is one of the earliest musical instruments invented by human beings. Lanzhou Museum has a collection of Neolithic Majiayao painted pottery drums unearthed in Leshan Ping, Yongdeng County, Lanzhou City. Historians call it the "originator" of drums. Very similar to today's Taiping drum, it is regarded as the embryonic form of Taiping drum.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lanzhou Taiping Drum Team has performed more than 200 performances in China every year, and set up 1 1 Taiping Drum Performance Team in Xinjiang, Ningxia and Henan, which effectively promoted and publicized Lanzhou Taiping Drum throughout the country.
In 20 12, Lanzhou sent an invitation to the whole world to travel to Gansu: "China travels northwest and starts from Lanzhou", thus attracting about170,000 people from home and abroad to travel to Gansu.
Lanzhou Taiping Drum has its own characteristics. First of all, its shape is different from other drums. It is based on a cylinder and has a huge volume. Instead of using a drumstick, beat the drum surface with hemp twisted into a drum stick (or whip).
Every large-scale celebration, the performance of Lanzhou Taiping Drum is the climax of the whole activity. The powerful drums show the heroic spirit of the people along the Yellow River, with unique style, strong northwest characteristics and artistic courage.