On March 9th, the "Spring to Ten Thousand Homes - National Drum King Conference" concentrated performance activities will be held in the urn city of Zhengding South City Gate in Shijiazhuang City. At that time, more than 1,000 drummers from all over the country will jointly sound the strong voice of endeavor and dedicate the 2024 New Year's enthusiastic "cultural feast".
The National Drum King Conference is guided by the Public Service Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, hosted by the Hebei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and the people of Shijiazhuang City, and undertaken by the Propaganda Department of the Shijiazhuang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Shijiazhuang Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, and the people of Zhengding County.
With the tenet of "inheritance, innovation, and benefiting the people", the conference organically combines drum culture with national and folk traditional arts in the two links of "Dragon Drum Celebration Spring - Concentrated Performance" and "Dragon Drum Celebration Spring - La Street Parade", and strives to highlight the characteristics of display, ornamentation, professionalism and benefiting the people, so as to show the richness and breadth of Chinese folk drum culture, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, realize the deep integration and development of mass cultural brand activities and cultural tourism, and create a "so close, so beautiful, Weekend to Hebei "new fashion of cultural tourism."
The conference selected 11 outstanding drum teams with strong local drum charm from Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Guangdong, Hunan and Renqiu, Longyao and other places in the province and 2 "Golden Drum King" teams from the 10th Shijiazhuang New Year Drum King Competition to gather in "Sanguanxiong Town" to comprehensively display the artistic value, cultural characteristics and development achievements of Chinese folk drum music, and promote the appreciation, exchange, development and innovation of drum art.
Participating in the conference are not only Ansai waist drum, Nanguo lion awakening, Hangu flying cymbal, Hancheng Xinggu, Yaoxiang drum, Renqiu drum, Nansizhuang back lamp drum, etc., but also "Dragon Teng Shengshi", "Majestic Gong and Drum - Huoyi Battle", "Agitation Quartet", "Taiping Shengshi", "New Ideas, Wu Noise", "Eternal Yellow River" and other innovative programs that represent local characteristics and are full of charm, the old man in his old age, the high-spirited teenager, the energetic worker, the hard-working and simple farmer, They will interpret the essence of excellent traditional art in their own way, so that the audience can feel the integration of drum culture and the roots of national culture in the excitement of the heart.
During the conference, the 10th Shijiazhuang New Year Drum King Contest won the drum team performance of "Good Day Wins Year by Year", "White Buddha Flower Cymbals" and other programs will be carried out with some of the participating drum teams in Zhengding Museum, Yanghe Building, South City Gate Square and other places to carry out community performance activities and Zhengding South Street parade, so that the excellent folk drum music to the masses and tourists, with drums to celebrate the spring, and strive to achieve the beautiful vision of "benefiting the people with culture and running the city with culture", and at the same time send a warm invitation to tourists across the country.
In order to improve the popularity and influence of the National Drum King Conference, during the event, the national, provincial and municipal public culture cloud, Jiyun, Great Wall live broadcast, Shijiazhuang Radio and Television Station and other platforms will be broadcast live throughout the whole process, and many Internet celebrities such as Cui Haoran, a young drum player from Hebei Province, who is popular on the Internet, will also enthusiastically participate in the conference to help the conference and make the long-inherited drum art "young" out of the circle.
The noisy sound of gongs and drums invigorates the passion for progress, and the vigorous pace releases the upward pride. "Spring to Ten Thousand Homes - National Drum King Conference" carries the depth and thickness of culture, carries the fiery national feelings, and witnesses the vigorous and high-spirited progress of the people of Hebei in the spring of the Year of the Dragon!
Wang Xiaoyou, editor of Heqing News Network|Channel editor-in-chief Jiang Tianqun|Channel producer Song Yan.