Recently, the “Noisy Sea” performed by the original Zhoushan gongs and drums team in Dinghai, Zhoushan City won the “Celebrating the Founding of the Party for a Hundred Years and Enjoying a Better Life” Zhejiang Folk Music and Dance Exhibition in a Large Square. This is also the only boutique award in Zhoushan in this selection activity.
Zhoushan gongs and drums “Noisy Sea” is a new work based on the original track “Hai Xiang Gu Yun”, which was adapted and sublimated by Gao Chengwen, the inheritor. The unique drum arrangement and gong arrangement are the main musical instruments, with the passionate “three gongs and drums” as the core, supplemented by the melody of silk and bamboo, which sometimes seems to show the waves of the sea and sometimes to express the beautiful images, forming its unique artistic style.
In 2006, Zhoushan Gong and Drum was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection list. The early Zhoushan gongs and drums are a kind of small folk instrumental music popular in Zhoushan, which are used in the daily life of islanders, such as welcoming god competitions, offering sacrifices to the sea, weddings and funerals, and opening celebrations. Through the careful cultivation of folk artists in past dynasties, it has formed such playing forms as “rough beating”, “fine tapping” and “clear gongs and drums” with strong marine characteristics, which used to be called “guild gongs and drums”, “going out to sea gongs and drums” and “three times gongs and drums”.
In the forties of last century, Gao Ruxing, the king of drums, promoted Zhoushan gongs and drums artistically with his superb skills. In 1959, it was compiled by a professional team of the army and named Zhoushan gongs and drums, and won the gold prize of folk music at the 7th world festival of youth and students held in Vienna. Here, He Lvting, Lu Ji, Cai Huiquan and other famous domestic musicians pay attention to it. Dozens of large-scale art groups such as China Art Troupe have performed Zhoushan Gong and Drum, and have traveled to Finland, North Korea, Japan, Sudan, the former Soviet Union, the United States and other dozens of countries.