Shanxi is the birthplace of the Chinese gong and drum culture. The story of Shanxi’s drums harks back to great antiquity. Folklore says that Emperor Huangdi had once made a drum himself. From the unearthed artifacts at Xiangfen, a county at the bank of the Fen River, we can find the most primitive percussion instrument dating from the Old Stone Age: an earth drum and an alligator skinned drum.Drum is created originally in the midst of laboring. And it is a primordial language of transmitting sentimental Shanxi is the birthplace of the Chinese gong and drum culture. The story of Shanxi’s drums harks back to great antiquity. Folklore says that Emperor Huangdi had once made a drum himself. From the unearthed artifacts at Xiangfen, a county at the bank of the Fen River, we can find the most primitive percussion instrument dating from the Old Stone Age: an earth drum and an alligator skinned drum. Drum is created originally in the midst of laboring. And it is a primordial language of transmitting sentimental