What is a spring gong?

Cultural Heritage Name: Pingxiang Spring Gong Region: Jiangxi Pingxiang

Heritage Number: V-4

Heritage Category: Folk Art

Application Date: 2006

Applicant/Applicant Unit: Pingxiang City

Heritage Level: City Overview Pingxiang Spring Gong is a folk custom that evolved from the "announcement of spring" spread in Pingxiang area. It is a form of folk art. After every Spring Festival, people carrying gongs and drums go from house to house to tell people about the housework season that year, and remind people to sow seeds and plow the fields in time. With the development of the times and the popularization of history, the content of spring gong singing began to change, becoming an art form that congratulates people on the New Year, conveys good luck and good news, and gradually develops into an art form that talks about characters, praises good and belittles evil.

< p>The spring gong is sung by one person. The singer ties a small drum with a diameter of 15 centimeters with red silk, and hangs a small gong on the side of the drum. He holds a drum stick in his left hand and a gong mallet in his right hand. Before singing or during the interval, the singer waves the drumstick and gong mallet to beat out the gong and drum rhythm of |Cangdongdongcang|Cangdongdongcang|Cangdongdongcangdongdongcangdongdongcang, and then beats the drum stick with his left hand The rim of the drum is used as a board and the singing begins.

Chun gong is sung in Pingxiang dialect. Its basic singing method is a seven-character sentence. Sometimes in order to increase the rhythm change, it also adopts the rolling board singing in opera. These tones are closely combined with the Pingxiang dialect. Strong local characteristics. Origin: The origin of Pingxiang spring gong has not yet been found in historical documents. It ranges from Li Yu, the later leader of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who wrote peach charms to welcome the spring, to Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, who advocated people to post spring couplets to celebrate the new year. Although it involves the theme of welcoming the spring and bringing good fortune, it cannot be determined unless it is related to the Pingxiang spring gong. According to the narrative and folklore in the traditional Pingxiang spring gong song book, there are three theories about the origin of Pingxiang spring gong. One is the theory of "announcement of spring". The second is the theory of "welcome spring and receive blessings". The third is the second surname "Zhou Wu". Form: The Pingxiang Chunluo Performance Team participated in the 14th Star Awards. It was deeply welcomed by the local people for its bright rhythm, humorous language and simple and flexible singing form. The singer wears a yellow silk or cloth bag, ties a small drum about 200 cm in diameter to the left abdomen, and hangs a small gong of the same size beside the drum. He holds the drum stick in his left hand and the gong mallet in his right hand, and beats "dong dong dong dong" The rhythm of "choke | dong dong dong choke | dong dong dong choke | dong dong dong choke" is used as the transition music at the beginning of the song and the interlude between the paragraphs. [4] The biggest feature of traditional spring gong singing is "praising"; three emperors and five emperors, hundreds of civil and military officials, nine-level three religions, ordinary people, men, women, old and young, praising people when they meet; tobacco, tea, wine and fruit, silk, satin, silk, cotton, bamboo and medicinal materials , tables, chairs, cradle, praise things when you see them; build houses and ships, repair bridges and roads, steam wine and boil sugar, spin yarn and weave cloth, praise things when you see them. A talented old artist often memorizes hundreds of short jokes and can deal with people, objects and things fluently