Xunyang folk songs can be said to be all-round, multi-angle and multi-level in reflecting the lives of working people in past dynasties and expressing their feelings. There are "Long Work Tune" and "Suffering", which show that farmers work hard all year round, but live a poor life; There are all kinds of boatmen's songs that show the boatmen's labor on the Hanshui River, and there are also "Drinking in the Five Nights" that express dissatisfaction with the unequal social system; There are works describing the life and feelings of footmen, such as Sang Muji and I miss my sister impatiently. There are also "Pulling the Board" and "Ten Beats of a Girl" that reflect the labor and interest of various craftsmen; There are street vendors and rural vendors selling Mao Lan, selling groceries and flat food; There are bamboo groves, bamboo rafts, wheat cutting, jujube beating, yellow stalks cutting, pepper picking, pig grass beating, rice field sweeping, tea picking, fishing, weaving and cotton spinning. Of course, love songs that express the working people's yearning for a happy life and their pursuit of love freedom account for a considerable proportion in Xunyang folk songs, such as "impatience of missing my sister", "collecting dry firewood", "Guihualing", "Love my sister white" and "Wrapping Chili peppers". Persuade lang, send lang, hope lang by young, budding women; There are "The Little Widow's Grave" and "Suffering" that lament the unfortunate marriage; There are "The Moon Shines on the Woodhouse", "Fireflies", "Ten Hates" and "Ten Writing" that boldly pursue free love. In addition to the love songs that express the love between men and women, there are fairy tunes, bluegrass flowers and white clouds that love nature and enjoy rural life. There are also novels such as The Stars in the Sky Are Unknown for Many Months, Swing, A Blue Body, Tea Picking, and Straw Shoes Rotten with Four Tendons. Among them, I have realized the desolation of the world, and there have been novels that praise the sages and tell historical stories, such as King Petty Pie, Rewinding the Book, Embroidered Pocket and Twenty-eight Nights in Kunyang.
It should also be pointed out that in different historical periods, folk songs, as the aspirations of working people, produced and spread revolutionary folk songs in different historical periods. There are many such examples in Xunyang folk songs: Red Army ballads "Ten Send Red Army Songs" and "Pull Young Men" which were circulated among the Red Army in Shuanghe and the county in the 1930s. During the War of Liberation, the Eighth Route Army was threatening, and the song of women joining the army and the song of young sentries spread along the Han River. Five thousand years of feudalism, the living king of the old society, the song of women's suffering during the land reform; During the Great Leap Forward and water conservancy construction, the song of reservoir reflected the revolution, production and life at that time to varying degrees, leaving a historical mark. The richness of content and theme of Xunyang folk songs provides a cultural window for us to understand Xunyang's past and show its history.