The Zhuang and Yao ethnic groups in the Donglan Hongshui River area still play bronze drums in every traditional festival, wedding and funeral ceremony and major event.

The Zhuang people in Donglan County like to gather for a bronze drum competition in neighboring villages during idle farming hours. Every time on the first, fifteenth, and thirtieth day of the first lunar month, carry the bronze drum onto a nearby hillside, set up a drum stand, and hang it to beat. The sound of bronze drums spread in all directions, and young men and women from various villages came to find a suitable slope top to jointly build a drum shed and negotiate a bronze drum competition.

In nearby villages, everyone who has a bronze drum carries it up the mountain. Each village selects 4 drums, male to male and female to female, and plays them in sequence. Each copper drum is accompanied by 3 drummers, who rotate and rest to keep the drum sound continuous. The beat of drums has a fixed rhythm, which is played according to the rhythm of "737", "seven singles and seven pairs", "noisy turtledoves", "backward crossing", "little sisters", etc. If one party plays indiscriminately or wrongly, even if the drummer fails, they will be disqualified from the competition. The drums are clear and loud, played for a long time, played beautifully, even if you win. If the drum sounds hoarse or the copper drum cracks, it is considered a loss. Other young men and women watched the drum race while singing mountain songs.

During the Chinese New Year holiday, people gather the bronze drums in the village on a relatively flat ground and arrange a certain "scale" according to the size order of the drums. An old drummer who is familiar with the scale and rhythm of the bronze drums beats the gong to command, and each drummer beats their own drum according to a unified finger wave, striking their own drum points, and coordinating with other bronze drums to form a unique rhythm and melody. Dancers dressed in festive attire danced to the sound. The content of the dance generally consists of six parts: "opening", "spring plowing", "summer sowing", "autumn harvest", "winter storage", and "welcoming spring". Rumors have it that more than ten miles away, people from other villages also gather men, women, and children to carry bronze drums to cheer up, and some villages engage in competitions with each other.

The Danu Festival of the Donglan Yao ethnic group has been a traditional grand festival for the Yao people since ancient times, similar in scale to the Spring Festival of other brother ethnic groups. On this day, the sound of bronze drums in the Yao village, the sound of villages, and every household, slaughter pigs and sheep, nail chickens for wine, dye red and green eggs, steam red glutinous rice, hold family banquets, and gather together with relatives and friends. Men, women, old and young, all dressed up in their own embroidered ethnic costumes, and then came to Geshan in pairs, playing bronze drums, playing suona, singing toasts and sawang songs. The fine talk songs of young men and women can be sung for several days and nights, and men and women can express their love for each other, which is difficult to part from.

The Donglan copper drum is mainly made of bronze and cast with other metals. Drum shapes and sizes vary, with weights ranging from a few kilograms to several tens of kilograms. The drum surface has relief patterns, with the sun shining in the center of the pattern. Each bronze drum has different patterns, including concentric patterns, breast nail patterns, mermaid patterns, animal shaped patterns, and cloud thunder patterns. The cover designs vary, with some featuring characters, livestock, treasures, houses, dragons and phoenixes, zodiac figures, double dragon prayer pictures, and others engraved with auspicious phrases such as "treasure for generations, eternal family wealth" and "blessings like the East China Sea and longevity like the South Mountain". There are also scenes that reflect the production of labor and leisure dances.

The entire body of the copper drum is cast with copper alloy, with uniform thickness and exquisite casting. It is a type of comprehensive design and decoration with high level