Donglu Dagu is a kind of northern folk art form. It originated from the folk tunes in the Yellow River Delta. It has been processed and inherited by many generations of artists and has become a school of its own. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has been widely spread in the Yellow River Delta and surrounding areas. It has distinct local language characteristics, tortuous and graceful singing, clear singing, and delicate emotional expression. It flourished in the early years of the Republic of China and became a major school of "Shandong Dagu". It is a rare variety in national folk art. Donglu Dagu was originally called "Dongkou Tune". The singing style was relatively simple. In the process of spreading, it was processed and sorted by several generations of artists and absorbed and borrowed the singing skills of local operas and other sister art forms, enriched the singing style of "Dongkou Tune" and added 1 drum, steel plate and three-stringed instrument accompaniment, so that it has developed into a relatively complete art form Donglu Dagu. Donglu Dagu has a strong local flavor, beautiful and pleasant singing, and singing love, lyricism, and cheerful works is even more unique than sister genres. During the performance, the sanxian is played as an accompaniment. The singer holds a steel plate in one hand and a drumstick in the other hand, hitting it rhythmically. Some artists also play and sing by themselves. The singing styles include slow (three major styles), second style (flowing water), fast style, string mouth, and linked mouth. The singing style changes according to the needs of the content and the plot. It is suitable for singing short and medium-length stories as well as long stories. The traditional drum books that local artists often perform include "The Generals of the Yang Family", "The Generals of the Hu Family", "The Biography of Yue Fei", "The Biography of the Bandits", "The Little Five Righteousness", "The Green Peony", "Han Xiangzi's Request for Title", "Ten Golden Pills", "1 Snowfield", "Jiang Jie", etc. More than a hundred years ago, there was an old artist named Xing Zhankui who sang the "Dongkou Tune", and later passed it on to his son Xing Yugui (from Xingjia Village, Lizhe Town, Binzhou City). In Changwei area, there are old artists such as Sun Shuangbin, Chen Fuyuan, and Zou Jinkui. Before liberation, Wang Jiangcheng, an artist who sang "Donglu Dagu", was a very famous actor (from Louziwang Village, Huimin County). Zhu Shengxiang, Zhou Shengkui, Liu Shengming and others from the former Bin County were famous artists who sang Donglu Dagu. In 1923, Zhou Shengkui became a disciple of Li Chengyi, a drum book artist in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, and graduated in three years. After liberation, Zhou Shengkui passed on his skills to his son Zhou Jinshan. Zhou Shengkui, a blind artist in Binzhou, has his own characteristics: although he also learned to sing Xihe Dagu, he did not abandon Donglu Dagu, but absorbed the bold and passionate specialties of Hexi Dagu, further enriched the singing style of Donglu Dagu, and was praised as "Zhou's Donglu". In 1957, Zhou Shengkui participated in the first Shandong Province Quyi Festival, sang "Donglu Dagu" "Gangjian Duan" and won the second prize. Zhou Shengkui died of illness in 1957, and Zhou Jinshan became the only successor of Donglu Dagu. Zhou Jinshan overcame various difficulties to learn to sing "Donglu Dagu", mastered its basic knowledge and singing skills, inherited his father's singing characteristics, boldly reformed and innovated, inherited and developed traditional art, and made Donglu Dagu have successors. After 1976, Zhou Jinshan's Donglu Dagu participated in provincial competitions many times and won awards. With the development of modern communication media and the rise of Western cultural fever, Donglu Dagu, like other traditional cultural repertoires, has seen a sharp decline in the market and is in an endangered state. In order to protect this precious genre, Bincheng District established the "Donglu Dagu Academy" and invited the only inheritor of the drum book, 66-year-old Zhou Jinshan, to teach apprentices and carry out teaching activities, which achieved very good results. In 2009, "Donglu Dagu" was approved by the Shandong Provincial People's Government to be included in the second batch of "Shandong Intangible Cultural Heritage List".