What is a spring gong?

Name of Cultural Heritage: Pingxiang Luo Chun Area: Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province

Heritage number: ⅴ-4

Heritage category: Quyi

Date of application: 2006

Applicant/Applicant: Pingxiang City

Heritage Level: Urban Overview Pingxiang Spring Gong is a folk art form that spreads in Pingxiang area and evolved from "reporting spring". After the Spring Festival, people who announce the spring will beat gongs and drums and tell people about the family season of the year from door to door, reminding people to pay attention to sowing and ploughing in time. With the development of the times and the popularization of history, the content of singing Spring Gong began to change, becoming an art form of congratulating people on the New Year and conveying good news, and gradually developing into an art form of talking about characters, promoting good and restraining evil.

The spring gong is sung by one person. Singers use HongLing to tie a small drum with a diameter of 15 cm. There is a small gong hanging on the side of the drum, with a drum tag in the left hand and a gong hammer in the right hand. Before or during the singing, the singer waved the drum stick and the gong mallet, knocked out the rhythm of the drum | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thump | thu

"Spring Gong" is sung in Pingxiang dialect, and the basic singing method is seven words. Sometimes, in order to increase the change of rhythm, they will also sing on the crib in traditional Chinese opera. These tones are closely combined with Pingxiang dialect and have strong local characteristics. The origin of Pingxiang Spring Gong, from Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, to Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, advocated people to stick Spring Festival couplets for the Spring Festival, which has never been found in historical documents. Although it involves the theme of welcoming the Spring and being blessed, it cannot be concluded that it is not predestined relationship with Pingxiang Spring Gong. According to the narrative and folklore of Pingxiang Spring Gong's traditional songbook, there are three theories about the origin of Pingxiang Spring Gong. One is the theory of "reporting spring". The second is the theory of "welcoming the spring and receiving happiness". The third is the surname of Wu Zhou. The Luo Chun Performance Team from Pingxiang participated in the 14th Stars Award Competition, and was well received by the local people for its bright rhythm, humorous language and simple and flexible singing form. The singer is wearing yellow silk or a cloth bag, and a small drum with a diameter of about 200 cm is tied to his left abdomen. A small gong with the same size is hung on the side of the drum. The left hand holds the drum tag and the right hand holds the gong mallet, which is played with the rhythm of "dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong", which is traditional. Three emperors and five emperors, civil and military officials, nine sects and three religions, ordinary people, men, women and children, everyone likes them; Smoke, tea, wine, fruit, silk, cotton, bamboo, grass, cradle tables and chairs, praise everything; Building houses and ships, repairing bridges and roads, steaming wine and boiling sugar, spinning and weaving, seeing things and praising things. A talented old artist often writes hundreds of short stories and can respond to people, things and things.