Storytelling · ST10712
Jingyun Dagu (Beijing Drum Ballad)
Short drum-ballad pieces sung standing, many drawn from the Three Kingdoms and Dream of the Red Chamber.
2works
Mural guide
On a teahouse stage before a landscape screen, a woman in a floral qipao strikes a drum on a lacquered stand with a slim stick and raises clappers in her other hand. Musicians play sanxian, fiddle and pipa as hatted patrons sip tea.
Short drum ballads sung standing at the drum in Beijing speech