Ching Kangxi "Fenyang County Records" recorded: "the first day of spring, the government rate of the people, with the spring cattle Mang Shen, welcome spring in the eastern suburbs. Rians line households loaded with fishermen, woodcutters, farmers and readers, actors and actresses to the corner of the drama, filled with twelve lines, each deacon in front of the guide. Colorful for the building, the townships and townships of young and old men and women are gathered to watch. To the Spring Festival, the officials each with a colorful staff, hit the soil cattle three, called the whip spring, to show the intention of advising agriculture, create a small spring cattle sent to the home of the Jinshen family, so-called send spring." According to the old artist said, the first rice-planting song, people just beat the drums and gongs in a circle, then called "pounding rice-planting song".
The Fenyang rice-planting songs are not only performed in the streets, squares and stages, but also in villages and households. The main forms are: temple rituals, rows of streets, hollowing out the field, and crossing the street boards. The main content of the temple festival is to pray for the blessing of the gods, and the first performance is held in the temple courtyard. Row street is mainly rice-planting singers walk around the village to the high prestige of the family, the family of the red gentry, the village has contributed to the family New Year's greetings and so on. No matter whose doorstep they go to during the performance, they have to stop and sing a few rice-planting songs. Each family for good luck, are prepared to smoke tea sugar and wine to thank the rice-planting singer, locally known as "row street". The "Paijie" refers to a rice-planting team that performs various routines on a leveled field.
The Fenyang rice-planting songs are very rich in routines, with more than 70 kinds of routines, such as "one dragon with a single lead" and "two dragons with double leads". There are more than 70 kinds of routines such as "one dragon single lead", "two dragons double lead", etc. There are special singers who sing in the gaps between the various routines. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Civil War, rice-planting songs were integrated into the art of rapping, and the singers improvised and sang the festive and auspicious "four or six sentences", alternating between beating and chanting. And there are good people in order to make fun of the singer will be dressed up as ugly men and women (male), dressed as a flower on the head or wear a sheepskin jacket, called them "stupid boy.