People of the Korean ethnic minority are good at singing and dancing. During the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the music of the Korean people was already highly developed and famous. Its dances were also greatly developed. Among these dances, the Long-Drum Dance is the most famous one.

Zhang (stick) Drum Dance, also called the Long-Drum Dance, is left and extended from the Liangzhang (two-stick) Drum Dance of the Tang Dynasty, which can be identified by its drum shape and the way it is beaten. The Korean people developed it into a beautiful dance form with a strong local flavor, which spread widely among themselves.

The kind of drum used in the Long-Drum Dance is with two sides of different pitches. Whiling dancing, a dancer beats the side of high pitch with a long whip with his/her one hand and beats the other side with low pitch with his/her other hand. During performance, the dancer will be excited and make different movements and postures.