"Silk Strings and Drums" is a popular wind and percussion music in Jianshi, with a history of more than 150 years. Jianshi Silk Strings and Drums is known as "a wonderful flower in Hubei's traditional music culture". Its music is sonorous and powerful, the scene is lively, the expression is rough but delicate, and it has a strong artistic charm. Among Jianshi's "Silk Strings and Drums", the famous wind and percussion music include Silk Strings and Drums, Andong Jingnao Lingge, Haocao Gonggu, etc. Its performance forms are rich and colorful, with singing and dancing, lively and humorous, rich tunes, and colorful and melodious melodies. Jianshi's "Silk Strings and Drums" has a long history. According to legend, during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Kunqu artist from Jianshi named Li Shigao. After the troupe disbanded, he returned to Jianshi. He brought back and preached 10 opera singing tunes and more than 30 suona tunes from Hunan. In the performance practice, it was integrated with Jianshi's "pulling grass gongs and drums" and "playing gongs and drums", injecting new vitality into the local traditional gongs and drums, making its tunes more colorful, and the scope of application was not limited to "pulling grass" and "playing with lanterns", but gradually expanded to birthday celebrations, childbirth, weddings, funerals, marriages, house building, etc. Thus, a group of professional artists were born. Later, when the opera voices such as "Bangzi", "Erhuang" and "Xipi" flowed into Jianshi, they were accepted by these professional gong and drum artists and turned into their own things, using suona to play operas, using large suona to imitate male voices, and using small suona to imitate female voices. This kind of play with suona is called "silk strings", and the combination of "silk strings" and "gongs and drums" is "Jianshi silk strings gongs and drums". Mr. Mao Ji Zeng, an art researcher at the Central University for Nationalities and director of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Society of Ethnic Music, wrote in April 2001: "Jianshi silk string gongs and drums are a wonderful flower in Hubei's traditional music culture." Changliang Township is the famous "Jianshi silk string gongs and drums" hometown of our prefecture, and is also one of our prefecture's "folk art ecological protection areas." There are many silk string gongs and drums teams active in the township alone. Their performances are simple and natural, full of enthusiasm, their movements are chic and smooth, and their drum beats are like flowing clouds and water, which are very artistic and appealing. The late folk art master, Xiao Maorong, the inheritor of the silk string gongs and drums in Changliang Township, made great contributions to the inheritance and development of Jianshi silk string gongs and drums. The drum is the soul of the silk string gongs and drums team, and the drummer is the conductor of the band.