Huanghua fishing drum's birthplace is Fenjiabao village of Huanghua city where is in the seaside of Bohai sea. It has been popular in the local fishing villages along the sea. Huanghua fishing drum roots in the later Qianlong region of the Qing dynasty, about 200 years to now. It is said that a fishing drum actor cadged in this area because of the disaster taught it. Then it increasingly absorbs the features from the local ballads, and became a unique opera that its rhythm is bright, the tone smooth and it has a strong village features. Huanghua fishing drum is an amusement form in the fish men. Its main form is colony performance, but one or two persons could also perform it. |