Fengyang Flower Drum is also called Flower Drum, Playing Flower Drum, Flower Drum Gong and Double Drum. Fengyang Flower Drum originated in Linhuai County (now the east of Fengyang County). It is a kind of Han folk performance art that integrates Quyi and song and dance, but the rap performance in the form of Quyi is the most important and famous, and it is generally believed that it was formed in the Ming Dynasty.
Fengyang Flower Drum, Flower Drum Lantern and Flower Drum Opera are also called Fengyang Three Flowers. Fengyang Flower Drum is mainly distributed in towns and villages such as Burning Lamp and Xiaoxihe in Fengyang County. The performance form of its folk art form is one or two people accompanied by gongs and drums, dancing and singing.
In history, artists used this as a means to go out to perform arts, and Fengyang Flower Drum spread all over the country. During the reign of Kang Gan in Qing Dynasty, many literati's poems recorded the lively scenes of singing and dancing during the performance of Fengyang ancient paintings.
Historical origin
Fengyang Flower Drum originated in the late Yuan Dynasty and has a history of more than 700 years. It used to be a piece of entertainment dance in Fengyang folk social activities, but it was later diverted. The lower classes use it as a means of performing arts to make a living, while the rulers use it to praise saints. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Fengyang Flower Drum spread to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the spread continued to expand and the performance was unprecedented. During the reign of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, Fengyang Flower Drum was renamed and spread to most parts of northern China. Kong, the author of Peach Blossom Fan, watched the performance of Fengyang Flower Drum in Pingyang, Shanxi Province, and made an impromptu poem praising: "Fengyang girl stepped on Chunyang, stepped on Pingyang to win her hometown, did not avoid dancing, bowed her waist, and hooked people on the street."