The music of flower-pulling is divided into two parts: instrumental music and songs, which are sung by the performers while dancing. However, due to the large amplitude and strength of the movements of the flower-pulling, the performance is strenuous, so it is mostly played by instrumental music, thus gradually weakening the singing part. Instrumental music with big pipe rough, sad tone, thick and pure tone and pull flower fusion, integrated, giving the audience a high degree of visual and auditory unity. It y embodies the psychological characteristics of the people of Jingfu in history, and becomes an inseparable part of the style characteristics of la hua art. If there is no big pipe and its unique style of playing, the Lahua dance will be eclipsed. Therefore, the people of Jingfu simply regarded it as a separate kind of music and called it "Lahua music".
Lahua music is an important part of Jingfu Lahua, which consists of nationalities, folk tunes, opera tunes, temple music and court music, and has the flavor of Hebei blowing song. It is characterized by ancient simplicity and elegance, refreshing and melodious, deep and wonderful, robust and steady, and its biggest feature is distinctive rhythm. The rhythmic and staccato tones express the dance's strong, inner, calm and bold feelings, and achieve a high degree of unity in hearing and vision, sound and emotion, extremely beautiful. Its style is characterized by just and not wild, soft and not surly, Chinese and not floating, sad and not weeping, listening to touching, unforgettable, and the flower dance, music and dance fusion, integrated, the formation of a unique style of independent folk music. Lahua music in addition to the dance accompaniment for Lahua, can also be played alone. When it is played in marching, it is called "marching music", and when it is played in the field, it is called "sitting music". Lahua music in different parts of the country has its own characteristics. Among them, the Southeast is the longest history of Lahua, and the skills are the best, so it is representative. The accompanying instruments of traditional Lahua generally include: big pipes, small pipes, flutes, sheng, gongs, bores and small cymbals. Some of them also have erhu, sanxian, sihu, banhu, koto (shaped like a dustpan, with seven strings of ox sinews), big cymbals, small gongs, horse gongs, flat drums, etc. The orchestra consists of up to 20 musicians in dual control. The orchestra double control up to 20 people, and then more single instruments, by about 10 people to form a band.
Traditional flower music has more than 30 songs, such as [eight boards], [small two-pan], [grinding oh la], [Wan Nian Huan], [wild geese flying], [creeping tiger], [spring, summer, autumn and winter], [Pink Lotus], [Taiping tune], [horse head tune], [border tune], [flat], [Taoist sentiment], etc., which [eight boards] for the general use of the flowers around the pull. Artists say "stepping on the [eight boards] twisting flower pulling". Traditional pull flowers used in folk songs are 〈La Mei Hua〉, 〈Pick Pepper〉, 〈Run outside the mouth〉, 〈Embroidery purse〉, 〈Cargo man and Miss〉, 〈Wish for five nights〉, 〈Widow's difficulty〉, 〈Aunt and Sister-In-Law wishing〉, 〈Sister-In-Law looking for in-laws〉, 〈Playing the swings〉, 〈Ching country〉, 〈October Pregnancy〉, 〈Table Tang Dynasty〉, and so on up to a few 10 as much as the first.
The traditional music modes are mostly "Gong" and "Zheng" modes, followed by "Shang" and "Yu" modes.
The traditional rahua music is mostly in the keys of "Gong" and "Zheng", followed by "Shang" and "Yu", and the tempo is slow, mostly 4/4 beat.
The big pipe, locally known as the "old moo child", is the soul of the music of Lahua, in the orchestra in the leading position. Whenever a tune is started, it is played by it, and when the tune is finished, it is also signaled by it first. This kind of rule, artists called "find the head", "take the end". In the process of the music, the big pipe plays and stops, forming a musical contrast, which is called "section sentence" and "leakage point" by the artists. Its simple, rough, thick, slightly pathos music and dance into one. The high-pitched "insert eye blowing method" of the small tube, the flute's leaning tone, trill and flower point echo each other with the big tube, and the sheng is a five-octave and the tone of the music will be united with the pearl. Yunluo with its crisp and pleasant sound and wind music in the colorful blend of timely and question-and-answer style performance, small boring, small cymbals, flat drums according to their respective rhythms beat, strict division of labor, close cooperation, listening to the people without the feeling of boredom of playing together. Pipes, flutes, sheng, gongs are indispensable instruments in the music of Lahua, constituting Lahua's special artistic charm and rich local flavor. This is any other instruments can not be replaced.
Traditional Lahua sings a lot of words, most of which have nothing to do with the dance performance, and some of which seem low-class, vulgar, but as a source, it also has its value.