Harvest Gongs and Drums is an orchestral piece with distinctive Shandong music characteristics composed by Peng Xiuwen and Cai Huiquan in 1972.

The music draws lessons from the drum beats and melodies of Chinese folk wind and percussion music, changes and develops it, innovates the old and brings out the new, giving full play to the expressive capabilities of China's rich and colorful percussion instruments. It has both national style and the characteristics of the times.

Harvest gongs and drums are a unique type of percussion music. Originating in the Liuzhuang area of ??Ziyangnan, Pancun Town, Mingguang City, it is a folk percussion art form popular in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, and in the four counties of Mingguang, Wuhe, Xuyi and Sihong.

Harvest gongs and drums were born and thrived among local folk. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the father of Cheng Kaixue, the first generation inheritor of the "Harvest Gongs and Drums" (Xiaowufan), worked as a drummer in a small folk opera troupe. Due to the war, he returned home to farm and encountered famine. He took his family and begged along the way with gongs and drums in hand to spend the day. After the war and famine, he returned to his hometown and began to organize the drum scores, which became the original "Harvest Gongs and Drums" (Xiaowufan).

The basic characteristics of harvest gongs and drums:

First, the sound of the drums is exciting.

Looking at the "harvest gongs and drums", I didn't see its shape, but I heard its sound, and the sound vibrated like thunder. The traditional configuration ratio is 2 drums, 2 gongs, 4 cymbals, and 2 cymbals. Nowadays, the number of people has expanded to dozens, the proportion of drums, gongs, cymbals and cymbals has increased, and the sound effect has become more prominent. The method of performance is drum conductor, gongs as lead, cymbals and cymbals as auxiliary, and strike alternately.

Second, the music form is cheerful.

The tunes of "Harvest Gongs and Drums" are both independent chapters and connected sets. They have evolved from the small five chapters in the past to the big ten chapters today. The songs are divided into "head", "main body" and "tail" "Three parts. Third, the scene is cheerful. "Harvest gongs and drums" are played by dozens of people, dressed in festive costumes, unfolding in a "V" shape, sometimes playing head-on, sometimes crossing each other, standing and squatting, jumping and flipping, the scene is joyful and festive.