The main representative of timid drum is Liu Baoquan, who is called "the king of drum industry". While learning from others, he innovated the timid drum. One sang a short song with Jing Bai; The second is to absorb the tunes of various operas and zaju to enrich the singing; Third, draw lessons from the "knife and gun rack" style of Beijing opera and some singing and rhythms to form a set of performers; Fourth, the combination of three-string accompaniment and aria is rigorous and comfortable. And with Zhang. Formed three schools represented by Liu, Bai and Zhang. Then "little white pie" and "Luo pie"
The basic sentence pattern of the lyrics of Jingyun Drum is seven sentences, and some of them have added embedded words, sandwiched words and overlapping sentences. Each lyric is about 145 sentences. The rhyme is based on The Thirteen Lines in Beijing, and most of the aria rhymes to the end. Its basic vocals include adagio and adagio. Jingyun drum is a combination of singing and speaking, and the rhyme is white and pays attention to timbre and charm. The performance forms are one-person standing singing (two-person singing was introduced after liberation) and self-drumming; The main accompaniment is usually three people, and the instruments they play are Da Sanxian and Pipa, sometimes accompanied by low Hu. Traditional songs include Changbanpo, River Cut, Grass Boat Borrowing Arrows, Noisy Jiangzhou, Daxixiang, Sacrificing Qingwen, Daiyu's Sad Autumn, etc., and lyrical short scenes such as singing at the end of ugliness and returning to the boat after wind and rain.
In the early 1950s, professional groups such as the Central Radio Rap Troupe and Beijing Quyi Troupe made remarkable achievements in bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new in Beijing rhyme and drum, and made contributions to training new people.