As a young boy,Wang Chengqiang,like all children,played with a drum.But it was more than play.His grandmother,who had learned the art from her elders when she was a child,taught him the Taiping Drum Dance,a lively folk dance in which the dancers use drums as props.The genre appeared in Beijing during the Ming Dynasty(1368-1644)and grew popular in the Qing Dynasty(1644-1911).Taiping is associated with peace and tranquility and the drum is also called the Yingnian drum because it is As a young boy, Wang Chengqiang, like all children, played with a drum.But it was more than play. His grandmother, who had learned the art from her elders when she was a child, taught him the Taiping Drum Dance, a lively folk dance in which the dancers use drums as props.The genre appeared in Beijing during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and grew popular in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) .Taiping is associated with peace and tranquility and the drum is also called the Yingnian drum because it is