Cheerful gongs and drums were beaten, and festive Yangge twisted ......The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and the flavor of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger. In the past few days, various literary and artistic groups in the urban and rural areas of Hequ County have been rehearsing their programs in an intense and orderly manner, and there is a joyful and festive atmosphere everywhere. In the cultural compound of Pingquan Village, Xikou Town, it is particularly lively, and the villagers are preparing for the celebration of the two festivals. 
Drums are loud and cymbals are beating. Walking into the cultural compound of Pingquan Village, although the conditions are simple, but still can not hide everyone's enthusiasm, the majestic gong and drum team composed of more than 30 villagers is rehearsing in an intense and orderly manner. Jia Junying, a villager who is also a conductor, is dancing the conductor flags vigorously, directing the drumming and the cymbal beating.
Conductor Jia Junying told reporters: "When it comes to these 20 or so households to make New Year's goods, our women comrades in the Pingquan Cultural Compound will use their spare time to come into the Cultural Compound to rehearse our majestic gongs and drums, and prepare for our Lantern Festival to send blessings and happiness to the fathers and villagers of the entire Hequ County, and wish our fathers and villagers of Hequ County good health and all the best!" ”
The villagers who participated in the rehearsal of the show were in their 70s and in their 40s, all of them were energetic and energetic, stepping on the cheerful beat, changing the formation while beating the cymbals, and each move was full of love and longing for a better life, and laughter and laughter rippled in the village cultural compound, presenting a lively scene to welcome the New Year. On the indoor stage of the cultural compound, the villagers who love literary and artistic activities also played the erhu board and sang the traditional two-person stage. Team member Zhang Xianxian said: "We use this leisure time to play drums and twist Yangge. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, we have all kinds of programs in this cultural compound, there are boats, luqi, Yangge, and dragons, this year of the dragon, we also want to play the dragon, I wish all our fathers and fellow villagers a good year of the dragon, all the best, happy every day! ”
It is understood that the Pingquan Village Cultural Compound was established in 2008, and all levels of the county and villages have given strong support, and the villagers have actively responded to participate in various program rehearsals. In recent years, in order to further improve the activity level of the cultural compound and enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the villagers, the village has purchased musical instruments and costumes, hired professional teachers for teaching and guidance, and established a majestic gong and drum team relying on the New Era Civilization Practice Station to build more activity platforms for the villagers, provide opportunities to show themselves, and guide more villagers to actively participate in civilized and healthy cultural activities, promote the prosperity and development of rural culture, inherit and develop traditional culture, and help rural revitalization. Han Lili, the manager of the cultural compound, told reporters: "It has been 17 years since the establishment of our Pingquan Village Cultural Compound, and the majestic gong and drum team has been for a year. Every year on the 15th day of the first lunar month, we go to pay New Year's greetings to enrich our lives and broaden our horizons. As a rural cultural manager, I also want to make our cultural life better, and I want to hold more new programs to make our sisters younger and younger, and happy every day! ”