Which country invented the 24 festival drum?

The 24 Festival Drum was developed in 1988 by the Malaysian Chinese to enrich the traditional Chinese drum art, and the main founders are Tan Wei Chong and Tan Zai Fan.

Although the 24 festival drums are taken from the festivals of the Chinese lunar calendar, they are a product of Chinese culture in Malaysia.

The twenty-four drums, with their magnificence, variety, and rich rhythm, soon spread throughout the Great Malaysia. At the same time, it is also popular with people from many areas overseas.

Welcome. Today, the 24 festival drums have become an important symbol of MCA culture.

Kuching Chung Hwa No. 1 Secondary School 24 Festival Drum was established in 1992 in the spirit of upholding and promoting Chinese culture.

The drum is a long-standing part of Chinese culture, the voice of the Chinese nation, and the pulse of the dragon.

The Twenty-Four Drums are the wisdom of our ancestors, and they are:

Beginning of spring, rain, sting, equinox, Qingming, valley rain;

Lixia, Xiaoman, Mango, Summer Solstice, Xiaoxia, Da Heat;

the beginning of autumn, the summer heat, the white dew, the autumn equinox, the cold dew, the frost;

Beginning of winter, light snow, heavy snow, winter solstice, small cold and big cold.

Basic conditions for innovation:

1) Observation: Observe with your eyes, listen with your ears, feel with your tactile sense, and comprehend with your heart.

3) Upward: Always maintain this desire, in line with the mission of seeking progress and promoting national culture.

Purpose: 1. To promote Chinese culture.

2. Promote the percussion technique of the Twenty-four Festival Drum.

3.Promote the spirit of a disciplined group.

Foon Yew Secondary School, Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Tan Zai Fan, the founder of the Malaysian Chinese 24 Festival Drum, said that he wants to use a modern way to inherit culture, "He hopes to use today's way to package and inherit traditional Chinese culture, so that more young people overseas can accept it, and they need a fresher way to get in touch with the Chinese culture left by their ancestors." Chen Zaifan, one of the founders of Malaysia's 24th Festival Drum, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Service in Guangzhou on December 4, 2012 that Guangzhou is the "Drum Township" of Festival Drums and hopes that the 24th Festival Drums can take root in his hometown.

Originally from Teochew, Guangdong, Tan is a second-generation Chinese in Malaysia. In 1988, he and the famous composer Chen Huizhen created the 24 Festival Drums based on the traditional Chinese 24 festivals, combining the characteristics of the Nanyue lion drum and traditional calligraphy art.

Drum music is the sound of festivals, drums are the pulse of tradition, and it is also a kind of nostalgia for their ancestors by overseas Chinese. Chen Zaifan said that the creation of the 24 festival drums is like a call from ancient Chinese culture.

Chen Zaifan introduced that the 24 festival drums used in the world are all southern single skin drums made in Guangzhou, and he hopes that the 24 festival drums can return to the hometown of drums. I hope that the festival drum can take root and blossom in my hometown. A "seed" was planted in Guangzhou.

As early as 1997, the 24 festival drums were brought into China by Malaysian students and blossomed at Huaqiao University in Fujian. Subsequently, the 24 festival drums were played in the Mausoleum of Emperor Yan, Beijing Drum Tower, Chaozhou, Meizhou and other places in China, and also took root in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Brunei and other places.

It is understood that the 24 festival drums are based on drumming, plus martial arts, dance and soundtrack, forming a unique art of its own.

Chen Zaifan said that the performance of the 24th Festival Drum Formation is full of Chinese colors, including the action of farmers planting in spring or harvesting in autumn. The most peculiar thing is that the 24 festival drums do not have a drum notation, and they are all created by the imagination of the drummer, so they are always in a state of constant updating.

The traditional culture left by the ancestors is rich and colorful, and the 24 festival drums are a kind of inheritance and creation of Chinese civilization. In order to allow more young generations to accept the ancient traditional culture, it is necessary to continue to innovate the culture and package the traditional culture in today's way. Chen Zaifan said.

At present, there are more than 200 24-season drum corps in Malaysia, with more than 20,000 drummers, most of whom are young people.

It is reported that the 24 festival drums are deeply loved by overseas Chinese in Malaysia because of their majestic and inspiring spirit. In 2009, the Ministry of Culture declared the 24 Festival Drums as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage, making them one of the only two national intangible cultural heritage sites in Malaysia created by Chinese people.

In 1988, the 9th National Chinese Dance Festival was held in Johor Bahru, and its opening ceremony was a nine-sided drum string, and the majestic drums collided with each other to produce a shocking force, so that the cultural person Chen Zaifan had a preliminary concept of using the 24-faced single leather drum to represent the lead shirt as a season, and the drum was matched as the festival, combining the shout and the drum as a whole. Chen Zaifan's original conception was conceived and recreated by the famous Johor Bahru opera educator and composer Chen Huizhen, and the birth of the complete performance form of the 24 festival drums.

It is said that there were not many people who knew how to play drums in Johor Bahru at that time, so Chen Huichong gathered students who knew how to play drums from the school's Chinese Orchestra and Military Bronze Band at Foon Yew Secondary School and became the first batch of drummers for the 24th Festival.

One day in 1988, the world's first 24-festival drum was sounded at the Johor Temple in Johor Bahru, and the world's first 24-season drum corps was officially established. In the past 19 years, the 24 festival drums have been slowly spread from Johor Bahru Foon Yew High School to all parts of the country, and then to all parts of the world. Various festival drum competitions are held all year round, which provides indispensable nutrients for the development of festival drums in the competition of drum skills, so that the cultural connotation and drumming technology of festival drums are constantly improved.

Students from Malaysia who went to Chinese universities also brought the seeds of the 24 Festival Drums to Chinese universities, and the most famous one is probably the 24 Festival Huai Hui Drum Corps of Huaqiao University in Fujian, China.

On September 12, 2005, the 24th Festival Drum even returned to the Mausoleum of Emperor Yan in Hunan Province, China, to worship the ancestor Shennong with a group of drums that show the crystallization of the ancestors' agricultural wisdom. The performance of the 24 festival drums means that the culture and art born in the south of Malaysia follow the cultural bloodline and return to the arms of the ancestors, so that everyone is immersed in the shock of the strong drums. Now I heard that the Ministry of Culture of Malaysia said that the 24 festival drums are the only culture created in Malaysia and can be applied for as a national cultural heritage; The originators of the 24 Festival Drums, Chen Zaifan and Chen Huichong, have also handed over the memorandum of application in Chinese and Bahasa Malaysia to Deputy Minister of Culture Huang Jinhong in the presence of many Johor Bahru Chinese group leaders.

The 24 Festival Drum is a cultural brand created by Malaysian Chinese with a strong Chinese color. If it can be recognized by the state this time, its significance will not only affirm the status of Chinese art, but also show the multicultural coexistence of Malaysia, and at the same time, it will make more people realize that the 24 Festival Drum originated in Malaysia and is a cultural symbol that Malaysians can be proud of!

The 14th Festival Drum is a form of drum performance created by the director of the Johor Bahru Chinese Association of Malaysia, Xiaoqing Wang Chen Zaifan, and the famous opera educator and composer Chen Huichong in 1988.

The 24 drums, the content is based on the traditional Chinese 24 festivals as the creativity, combined with the characteristics of Li Hua's southern Guangdong lion drums and traditional calligraphy art, which is majestic and inspiring.

In April 1988, the world's first 24-season drum corps was established in Foon Yew Middle School with the support of the Malaysian Johor Bahru Shenhua Association and the five major halls of Chaozhou, Fujian, Hakka, Guangdong and Hainan.

On July 1, 1997, China's first 24-festival drum corps was established in Huaqiao University, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province.

The 24 festival drums are the inheritance and creation of Chinese civilization, and have now become an important part of many large-scale festivals and banquets in Asia.