On the afternoon of January 20, accompanied by the sonorous sound of gongs and drums, the "Village Evening" initiated by Daniel Zhang, the anchor of Douyin and the non-genetic inheritor of Jinnan Weifeng Gong and Drum, was staged in Bozhuang Village, Linfen City, Shanxi Province.
On the stage, Daniel Zhang and gong and drum folk artists and enthusiasts from surrounding villages performed on stage, passing on the ancient intangible cultural heritage culture with deep and rich drum beats; Under the stage, hundreds of onlookers cheered along with the drums; In the live broadcast room, there are more than 79040,000 netizens gathered in the @Tangyao Gonggu Daniel Zhang live broadcast room to watch this special "village evening" together.
Hundreds of villagers were attracted by the drums of Bozhuang Village and watched the "Village Evening").
I hope that through the live broadcast room, netizens across the country can feel the original majestic gongs and drums and find the disappeared drums back. Daniel Zhang said. It is reported that this "Village Evening" is the first activity of the Rural Cultural Talent Douyin Live Broadcast Support Plan "I want to run a village evening", which is guided by the Public Service Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and jointly initiated by the Chinese Cultural Center Association and Douyin Live, inviting national talent anchors to hold "Village Evening" in their hometown and broadcast live. On January 20, the "Village Evening" independently organized by the anchor was held simultaneously in Linfenbozhuang Village, Shanxi Province, and Laershan Town, Fenghuang Town, Hunan.
Jinnan majestic gongs and drums have a history of more than 4,000 years and were listed as national intangible cultural heritage in 2006. Daniel Zhang has been learning Jinnan Weifeng gongs and drums since he was a child for more than 30 years. In 2020, Daniel Zhang began to test the waters of live broadcasting, and at its most popular, there were more than 600,000 people ** in a gong and drum live broadcast. When he saw that Douyin invited talent anchors to hold the "Village Evening" event, he immediately signed up and told the villagers about the news that he was going to hold the "Village Evening".
The first to respond was the youth drum group that has been active in the streets for the past two years and has members from all walks of life. Among them, the most eye-catching is a pair of "post-00s" young brothers. The 13-year-old sister Lele is responsible for playing the drums, the rhythm is sonorous and powerful, and the momentum and technique are not inferior to adults; The 9-year-old brother ** Hao is in charge of shooting cymbals, although he is not tall, whether it is a rehearsal or a formal performance, he desperately stretches out his arm to shoot the cymbals, which will always cause spontaneous applause from the villagers.
Sister Lele (pictured left) and younger brother Hao (pictured right), the youngest pair of drummers on the "Village Evening".
66-year-old Cheng Beicheng is a representative of elderly drummers. On the rehearsal field, Cheng Beicheng stepped on the stage and yelled, "Lianshou family (Shanxi dialect: brothers and friends), I want to go to the 'village evening'!" "Drums beat from all sides. On the day of the official performance, 19 folk gong and drum veteran artists led by Cheng Beicheng restored a traditional majestic gong and drum "Tearing Hemp". The eldest of them is 77 years old and is swinging drumsticks with unabated momentum. The old people wore big drums, stepped along, waved their arms in unison, and the deep and thick drum beat resounded through the countryside. Seeing Cheng Beicheng shouting the trumpet and leading the other old people to jump and jump, Ma Li threw the drumstick and caught it, and the onlookers let out bursts of exclamations.
At the rehearsal site of the "Village Evening" on January 19, gong and drum artists performed the traditional gong and drum song "Tearing Hemp" in the snow
On the stage, the old and young gongs and drums can gather people together and beat the gongs and drums loudly; Under the stage, the villagers who came from all over the world to watch spontaneously followed and danced square dances, played gongs and drums, and gathered together. Li Yinggen, a villager, said proudly, "The actors in this performance are all gong and drum lovers from our village and surrounding villages, and they have written, directed and performed their own programs. I feel comfortable when I look at it, and I love to watch it. When villager Dou Wenping heard that the number of "village evenings" reached millions on the Douyin platform, his face couldn't hide his joy, "It shows that the show is well performed and the masses like to see it, which really enriches the cultural life of the villagers." There were also old people who hadn't seen enough and asked Daniel Zhang, "Are you still here in the first month?" ”
At the scene of the "Village Evening", people spontaneously followed and danced square dances, played gongs and drums, and gathered together).
This hearty percussion festival is also a gathering that spans 30 years. Daniel Zhang felt that he presented an ideal "village evening": through the live broadcast room, the majestic gongs and drums went to a larger stage, and the gong and drum artists also touched a wider world; Zihao, who has a shy personality, became more fond of expressing himself after joining the gong and drum team, saying that "playing drums makes people confident"; Sister Hong, a fifty-year-old drummer, has new friends and a new life because of her drumming, and she feels as if she is also "majestic" when she plays gongs and drums on the stage of the "Village Evening".
Sister Hong, a drum friend, said that after playing the gongs and drums, she seemed to be "majestic").
In the past, rural intangible cultural heritage inheritors once encountered problems such as a small audience and low income. The old artists sighed that no one cared about the skills they had practiced all their lives. Nowadays, through online platforms such as Douyin, rural old artists have also found a bigger stage. Cheng Beicheng said, "Through the online platform, the traditional culture has been further carried forward, and at the same time, the rural culture has been revitalized. Daniel Zhang said, "People who do traditional culture must not be traditional when doing things", and through short ** and live broadcast and other ways to keep pace with the times, it can "let the sound of gongs and drums spread farther." ”
Village Evening" Daniel Zhang on stage).
According to the relevant person in charge of Douyin, there are an average of 13 live broadcasts on Douyin of similar "Village Evening" every day, with an average audience of more than 4,500 people. The online live broadcast and the "Village Evening" have allowed the inheritors of rural intangible cultural heritage to earn income and support themselves through live broadcasting, and the rural intangible cultural heritage skills have a new stage, new audience and new vitality.