Where is the folk song of Fengyang Flower Drum?

Anhui - "Fengyang Song"

Fengyang Flower Drum and Huangmei Opera are two cultural treasures of Anhui.

The representative work of the former is this "Song of Fengyang", and the representative work of the latter is "The Couple Returns the Household". Relatively speaking, "Song of Fengyang" is more likely to be sung.

Fengyang flower drum, also known as double drum, was popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was originally performed by two sisters, one playing the drum and the other playing the gong. They sang minor tunes and played the drums and gongs in between.

There is a famous song "Song of Fengyang", which sings: "Speak of Fengyang and talk about Fengyang. Fengyang is a good place. Since Emperor Zhu came out, there have been nine droughts in ten years." "The big family sells cattle and horses, the small family sells their son and son, and the slave family has no son and man to sell, so they carry a flower drum and travel everywhere."

According to records from the Qing Dynasty, early flower drums had “sad and melodious syllables that were intoxicating.” Another popular song is "Gongs in my left hand, drums in my right hand, singing with gongs and drums in my hand. I can't sing other songs, but I can only sing a Fengyang song."

Gongs in left hand and drums in right hand

Singing with gongs and drums in hand

I can’t sing other songs either

I can sing only Song of Fengyang

Fengfengyang drum ah ah ah ah yo

Deer clang and flutter in the air

Deer clang and clang flutter in the air

De'er fluttering, de'er fluttering

De'er fluttering, fluttering

De'er fluttering

My life Life is really hard

I will never find a good wife