Liaocheng Octagonal Drum Change Research

Octagonal drum, the ancient Manchu people a musical instrument for the enjoyment of the sound, hand hit the eardrum, because the drum body is composed of eight pieces of wood together eight corners, so named. On behalf of the Qing Dynasty is the octagonal eight, eight contains the meaning of unity, bajiaogu Biandabian sing, is the first in the form of a concert in Northeast spread of manchu. Beijing octagonal drum, is a popular folk songs in Ming and Qing Dynasties, formed around different forms of folk singing form, eight banners during the reign of the Qing Dynasty, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties based on the creation of a enjoyment for the purpose of the call "octagonal drum" folk art form, these folk art with the flag of officials away, and qingbingruguan spread around. Beijing octagonal drum is called the mid Qing Dynasty Manchu cultural collision and fusion is the crystallization of economic prosperity in the mid Qing Dynasty, a sort of good social stability under the system environment gradually formed. Under this system, through the extension of different ways, in the country has formed a number of local characteristics of the octagonal drum branch, such as Inner Mongolia, Henan octagonal drum drum, Lanzhou Dadiao tune, Ji'nan octagonal drum and Liaocheng octagonal drum etc..Liaocheng octagonal drum is a popular folk art form has the most local characteristics in Liaocheng local, it is a branch of Beijing octagonal drum by the Ming and Qing Dynasties along Beijing Hangzhou from the Grande Canale to Liaocheng, is also on the Ming and Qing Dynasties Qupai, music, lyrics of strong evidence, is a typical representative of folk music. The octagonal drum is very popular in the cultural revolution before, not only in the local popular favorite, has also been invited to perform in Beijing by professional scholars love and appreciation. During the Cultural Revolution by the catastrophe, not only destroyed the music also destroyed some text data, resulting in transmission interruption, along with the development of economy and the improvement of people's living standards and the improvement of people's aesthetic music, by the late eighty's concert octagonal drum in local inheritance is scanty, and octagonal drum before the cultural revolution in Liaocheng the scene around the town has formed great contrast. In order to keep the precious art, also in order to meet the preferences of the masses, some old people began to change the art innovation of the octagonal drum, the intangible cultural heritage of folk art to continue active in today's modern stage.