North Shaanxi is located in the Loess Plateau, east of Xijin, south of Tongchuan, west of Ningxia, Gansu, and north of Inner Mongolia, where wars have been frequent since ancient times, so that the ecological environment has been seriously damaged, and over the years formed the present landscape of thousands of ravines. Shaanbei people in such an environment but developed a optimistic and bold, hardworking and courageous, honest and simple character, Shaanxi folk songs is such a thousand ravines of the plateau terrain and the collision of the Shaanbei people's thick and simple emotions of the product of the collision of the people's life in northern Shaanxi is a reflection of the people's life, is the region's social history of the faithful record of the tens of millions of people collectively created a working masses of the life of an epic poem, but also a fight for freedom, the pursuit of happiness! It is also an epic of life created collectively by millions of working people, and a cry of the heart for freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
North Shaanxi is the birthplace of Chinese civilization. Historically, it was a crossroads of frequent exchanges between Han Chinese and ethnic minorities, with constant wars and population mobility, and only gradually stabilized during the Yuan Dynasty. In such a background, the folk songs of northern Shaanxi again have traces of the great integration of multi-ethnic cultures in the northwestern region, and at the same time change the national psychological characteristics as well as cultural and artistic aesthetic forms of this region. Since ancient times, northern Shaanxi has been a region of ethnic integration, due to the special natural environment, the formation of the style of rude and rich local characteristics of the folk songs. The people of northern Shaanxi are Han Chinese, but because of the mixed ethnicity, the fusion of ethnic bloodline reorganization and other Han Chinese, compared to the people of northern Shaanxi are no longer pure Han Chinese. The fusion of the bloodline has brought the advantages of ethnicity, but also precipitated the psychological characteristics of the relevant ethnic groups and ways of expression, for example: the nature of the northern Shaanxi people can sing and dance to create the "flower", "rice-planting songs", "dry boat" and other side of the song and dance
In history, the northern Shaanxi Province, the Hetao region has always been the Central Plains regime and the northern ethnic minority regimes to fight for looting the region until the Song Dynasty where it was also the main by the Jin, Xixia and other minority regimes to take turns controlling. Minority regimes took turns controlling the area, and farming and nomadic cultures struggled to coexist.
After the failure of the Mongol Yuan regime, the Chinese nation basically realized unification. During the Ming Dynasty, the government organized many migrations from western Jin, central Jin, southern Jin, and densely populated areas in the south to northern Shaanxi, and since the majority of the migrants were from Jin, a Jin-based language family was formed in northern Shaanxi. The Jin language family occupied the plateau of northern Shaanxi with a strong presence, and brought with it the Central Plains culture, which was dominated by Jin culture. Of course, a great deal of the language of the original inhabitants has survived, such as the names of villages in Yanchuan County: Cheguli, Longerze, Rabbit Guli, etc., which show the tone of the northern ethnic minorities. In the northern Shaanxi dialect, there are: "Da" - father, "Ke Qing Macha" - dry and sharp, all of which should be the language of the original inhabitants. All of these should be the languages of the original inhabitants. The language of the occupied peoples remains tenaciously in the original land.