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Xinhua WangXueLiang daily telegraph journalists


Every Sunday afternoon, when you enjoy in Beijing's houhai, will hear from the west bank from the rumble of a drum. Perhaps, middle also peppered with affirmation is not Chinese, but also don't like English eccentric lyrics. If you walk, you will find that worker has a group of people or sitting or standing, each carrying a wide at the fine, shape if tall foot flowerpot tambourine, is to knock aggressive. Flank is thickly were filled with the crowd, is taking pictures. Some children would walk past squatted down, curiously from every Angle observation in drums.

Drum people often sat in a ring, but among still standing alone, was an obvious the lead. This person see appearance also is in their early thirties, shape thin, hand hard but not really small, drumbeat jingling, a listen to let people feel "professional". The "leading the eldest brother" liu, every Sunday afternoon's name harmony drum activities, which he houhai launched: "we played the tambourine, call 'Djembe,' from west Africa region is the traditional percussion."

Every Sunday afternoon LiuYong say they are organised friends to come after the sea drum, rain or shine, has insisted on the more than two years: "now we also be houhai of this area a scenery, the pedal three-wheel pull a tourist know all of us."

Rain or shine Sunday party

See a four or five years old boy is aside staring oneself, a middle-aged man is drummer baldheaded stopped, put reaches the boy sight of Noah: "come, baby, you also to play two times." The little boy leng4 once, looked back at his mother, he didn't see mama nodded, tentatively marble pavement, gently in reaches a knock on it.

"Yes, that's it! Then make some trouble!" In this baldheaded uncle's encouragement, little boy it continued played a few times, the little boy's mother is keen on the sidelines to son photographed.

"Quite good! Here, let uncle brought held your hand, I make a rhythm ha......" The little boy on the drums knock along while, playing merrily. Until his mother took him to leave, he also sometimes turn about. To let more people know about, familiar with and like the "Djembe" this Africa, it is in the sea LiuYong tambourine drums one of the original intention of organization.