Changshan war-drum has a long history, which had its embryo early in Warring Period, and prevailed in the Ming Dynasty. It is a folk gong-drum made up of some percussion instruments such as drum, big-cymbals, mid-cymbals, small-cymbals, small-gong and so on. It is mainly used in performance in square. The team of Changshan war-drum is constituted of more than forty provisional peasantry drummer, who once took park in the open performing of the 11th Asian Sport Meeting in Beijing in 1990, and got the high appraise. |