Top Ten Tear-jerking Folk Songs from Northern Shaanxi:
1, Loess High Slope
2, Walking to the West
3, Sundandan Flowers Bloom in Red
4, Dongfanghong
5, Thirty Mile Pavement
6, Thinking of Kissing
7, Letters of Faith
8, Pair of Flowers
9, Turning over the Road
10, Embroidered Gold Plaque
What are some of the folk songs from Northern Shaanxi?
8, Pair of Flowers
9, Turning Over
10, Embroidered Gold Plaque
The Characteristics of Folk Songs in Northern Shaanxi
One of the distinctive characteristics of folk songs in northern Shaanxi is that they reflect the daily life of the peasants. When a farmer in northern Shaanxi plows on a hillside, he plows to the edge of the ground and asks the ox to turn around and plow again, then he sings with music in a loud voice, "Oh, come back!" And the ox obediently turned around, which should be the original northern Shaanxi folk song. Another example is the "Rammering Song" of northern Shaanxi: "Cough yo cough yo, cough yo cough yo, tune yo mao to come. Hum! Hmph!" A long string of false tunes, sung over and over again, this is also undoubtedly one of the oldest northern Shaanxi folk songs.
Similar examples are the "Stomping Field Song" (Stomping Field, the original method of playing the field in rural northern Shaanxi, not using a flail, but the harvested crops spread on the field, yells a few cows in the crops back and forth to step on the particles will be all stomped down). The tune is melodious and relaxing, and is also sung over and over again while driving the cows.
The above examples are enough to show that the folk songs of northern Shaanxi are born and formed from life and nature, which are close to the land, the environment of existence, the daily life of the people, and the character of the northerners, especially the character of the men, reflecting that the men and women of the north are strong in temperament, passionate and energetic.
Another feature of the folk songs of northern Shaanxi is that they reflect a lot of material and interest in life of the lower strata of life, that is to say, what the people of northern Shaanxi call the sufferers. Because, the suffering people's life monotonous, but rich in inner feelings, life is rich, the way of expression is mostly self-indulgent, such as driving a car love to sing "drive livestock spirit", love to sing the charcoal hollowing out the "charcoal hollowing out the song", planting love to sing the "suffering people", these are in the spare time to work to express the voice of their own hearts and aspirations.