Miao drum dance "Monkey Drum" comes from the album "Music of China Map: Hear Hunan Miao Folk Music Collection"

Drum Music of Monkeys

Folk Music: Miao Encouraging Ethnic Group: Miao Region: Xiangxi, Hunan

Drum: Liang Erlai, Liu Honglin

Monkey drum dance is a highly skilled form of performance dance, which involves imitating the drumbeat to perform actions such as picking peaches, scratching and scratching cheeks, and playing drums. The drummer taps on the edge of the drum, making a cheerful and humorous sound. Sometimes, he taps on the drum surface a few times, but the sound is not loud. Instead, he wants to hide behind the dense sound of the drum edge, which is full of fun. The varied drum sounds seem to evoke the dancing movements of vertical, jumping, Teng, and Nuo, light and agile, dazzling. At one moment, monkeys climb out of the mountains through grass and play with drums; After a while, monkeys steal peaches and nibble on corn; After a while, they were discovered and the monkeys dispersed in unison. The drum sound is pleasant to the ear, the dance moves are vivid, and the inspiration is full of wit, full of rich mountain and wilderness atmosphere.