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{{redirect|drum-song|the 1978 album|Drum Song|the 2009 song|Drumming Song|songs named "Drum"|Drum (disambiguation)}} {{confused|Gucci (disambiguation){{!}}Gucci}} In Chinese culture, '''Guci''' ({{zh|s=鼓词|t=鼓詞|p=Gǔcí|l=drum lyrics}}) are the prosimetric lyrics of ''dagu'', one musical entertainment form in the ''shuochang'' or "speak and sing" genre. The performers narrate a story based on the lyrics, usually accompanied by singing, while beating a drum. Other accompanying musical instruments are sanxian, sihu, pipa and yangqin. The art form was very popular during the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty,<ref>Hegel, Robert E. (1998). ''Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China.'' Stanford University Press. pp.26, 371-372.</ref> and therefore extant ''guci'' are very important in studying Chinese fiction from those period.<ref>Hanan, Patrick. (2004). ''Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Essays.'' Columbia University Press. p.134.</ref>

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110814/http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_artqa/2005-01/05/content_64751.htm Chinaculture.org: Dagu Lyrics]

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