The most important feature of northern Shaanxi folk songs is the difference in dialects, so-called "different languages across the mountains, different sounds across the water". The special feature of the northern Shaanxi dialect lies in the skillful overlapping of words and the abundance of superimposed characters, and these overlapping lyrics alone can give birth to the artistic wonder of northern Shaanxi folk songs, which can move people's temperament and please people's hearts.
For example: "white face, broken teeth, mouth to say some annoying words", it is the vivid form of the northern Shaanxi dialect itself adds a lot of artistic charm to the northern Shaanxi folk songs.
Secondly, the northern Shaanxi dialect favors nasal sounds, and words that end in "n" are pronounced as "ng", so the word "man" in the song "Bitter Man", for example, has the same sound as "ng". So, for example, the character "人" in "苦命人" should be pronounced as "仍", and "山" and "下", "下", in "横山下来一些游击队" should be pronounced as "shan" and "下", respectively. The words "shan" and "xia" in the song "Hengshan Down Some Guerrillas" are pronounced as "san" and "ha".
Expanded Information
Shaanbei Folk Songs Song Structure: Because they are produced in the course of production and labor, Shaanbei folk songs range from small two-stanza formations to larger multi-paragraph ones. The two-stanza and four-stanza forms are the most common forms of composition in northern Shaanxi folk songs, with the upper and lower stanzas forming a paragraph, two stanzas and a rhyme, and freedom of change.
The basic number of words in each sentence is seven, such as "Thirty Mile Shop," "Footman's Tune," and "A Pair of Pairs of Hair Eyes and Eyes of Brother," etc. However, due to the need for lyricism and narration, the seven-sentence form is sometimes expanded, with more words appearing in the form of a sentence and an expanded three-sentence or five-sentence structure of the stanza song, etc. Some of them are in the form of a paragraph.
Some of the folk songs of northern Shaanxi Province in the repeated use of multi-paragraph words with the content and lyrics of the need for language, the structure and speed of the lyrics have varying degrees of change, the formation of a rich and varied, but also through the fluent structure of the big.
For example, "Five Brothers Shearing Sheep" and "The Flowering of Shandandandan". In short, the structure of northern Shaanxi folk songs is flexible and rich, unconventional, and covers a wide range of content.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Northern Shaanxi Folk Songs