Qinshui Drum Ci is mainly rap art, popular in Qinshui County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province. The picture shows Qinshui drum Ci artist Zhang Banglu improvisational performance at home.

A little older Qinshui people, can impromptu hum a drum lyrics.

Qinshui Guci is mainly rap art, popular in Qinshui County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, with regional characteristics. Cui Qi, chairman of the Federation of Arts and Culture of Qinshui County, said that as a traditional folk art performance form, local drum children's Ci originated in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, and was popular from the early Republic of China to the 1950s, with a history of more than 400 years ago.

"Pa", a beat, the performance began, that is, "open book". According to the introduction, Qinshui Guci was first sung by one person, accompanied only by small drum and board. From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, accompaniment instruments such as strings and percussion were added, and later the number of performers increased, including "Jinghu", "Erhu", "Banhu", "low Hu" and "suona".

Guzi Hao, created by Zhao Shuli, the founder of the Yam Egg school, is one of the best songs of Zhang Banglu, a 74-year-old artist in Qinshui. "Millet is good, millet is good, eat fragrant, cost less..." Light, clear tone, combined with the local dialect, unique charm.

Zhang Xiuhua, an 80-year old artist of Qinshui drum rhymes, was taught by her uncle at home. Over the years, she has innovated in singing and playing boards in the performances of villages and villages. Her performances of "Biography of Bao Gong", "Biography of the Heroic Girl", "Palindrome screen" and other songs have been loved by the local people.

Qinshui Guci was first sung by one person, accompanied only by the small drum and the board, and then added strings, percussion and other accompaniment instruments.

One after another, into the Qinshui mountains and rivers. After more than 400 years of development, the drum rhymes have left a deep imprint in different periods of Qinshui and become the carrier for studying local customs and social changes. The performance field rap and laugh, onlookers smile, full of ideological connotation and educational significance of the song, deduce a moving story.

Traditional pieces such as "Biography of Bao Gong", "Biography of a Fierce Woman" and "Eighteen Women Performing Filial Piety", as well as new pieces such as "Aunt Wang Raising Chickens", "Zhou Xiaoshu Skillfully treating Hu's restlessness" and "Settling down", express the people's desire for a better life, inherit the "true, good and beautiful" in traditional culture, and criticize the "false, ugly and evil".

Dialect rap, local characteristics, close to life, Qinshui drum rhymes has the unique tolerance of folk art, embodies the wisdom and simplicity of farmers in rap. However, because its daobai and rap use dialects, their communication is limited, and the impact of modern art is the same as that of most quyi, Qinshui Drum Ci is facing the dilemma of shrinking market and no one inheriting it.

In Cui Qi's opinion, the inheritance and development of Qinshui Drum rhyming words need to be continuously endowed with reasonable connotations for their survival and development in modern society, explore their value in contemporary life, improve the quality and ability of creation and performance, and provide people with wonderful programs that they enjoy.

Quyi has very typical living characteristics, not invariable curing and extension, different from the original maintenance of cultural relics. According to Cui Qi, a local training institute was set up to explore, sort out, protect and inherit this rap art from its historical culture, characteristic culture and folk culture.

"There's nothing like a homesick sound." As the pride of the local dialect, the old artists hope that the "ancient tree" of Qinshui Drum children's songs, which has been passed down for more than 400 years, will produce new flowers and fruits year after year.