Shaanxi folk songs have distinctive regional characteristics: earthy, atmospheric, beautiful, earthy, majestic, beautiful, titillating. This is both vulgar and bright enough to make the characteristics of the singing altar above the temple, with a small tune exudes the momentum of the yellow bells.
In northern Shaanxi, people's joy, anger, sadness, happiness, which kind of emotion, can be expressed in the form of folk songs. Whether you are standing on top of the mountain peaks, or walking in the curved mountain road, or traveling on the main road, everywhere you can hear the melodious songs floating in the wind. This is the folk song of northern Shaanxi. "The women are sad and cry, the men are sad and sing songs." In fact, both men and women, young and old, love folk songs in northern Shaanxi. On the Loess Plateau, there are both the low and gentle chanting of the maids of honor, and the echoing of the high songs of "stopping the voice of the goat and returning to the voice of the cow" of the younger generation. The north of Shaanxi, is the world of folk songs, the sea of folk songs.
There are many kinds of folk songs in northern Shaanxi, including the four seasons song, the five shifts of the tune, the Range of the tune, the wine song, rice-planting songs, labor horn, song and dance song, Yulin song, Shaanxi set of songs, two people Taiwan, custom songs, religious songs and visit the family tune, etc., to the small tune and the letter of the journey is the main one.
The ditties, which are mainly narratives, usually have scenes, characters, storylines, and detailed descriptions. For example, "Harming the Doll", "Visiting Sister Yu", "Sending the Lover", "Sipao Rangong" and "Lower Willow Forest" are all long narrative folk songs.
Xintianyou (called "Shuntianyou" in areas bordering Inner Mongolia and "Shanqu" in the Shenmu-Fugu area) is a kind of folk song widely popular in northern Shaanxi Province, which is relatively short in length, is a product of improvisation, and can be sung freely according to different scenarios. It can be sung freely according to different situations. For example, when the villagers work in the fields, go up the mountains to herd sheep, go into the forest to cut wood, and drive donkeys to pull coal, they will let go of their voices and sing when they feel something. The language is simple, the rhythm is obvious, the rhyme scheme is varied, and it is generally a two-stanza structure, with the upper and lower stanzas rhyming, but not every other stanza. Based on the seven-word sentence or cross sentence, the upper line of the main than Xing or writing scenes and objects, the lower line of the main point of the idea, a combination of real and imaginary, the tune is melodious and high-spirited, rough and unrestrained, rhythm is distinctive, rhyming and harmonious, strong lyrical color. It fully reflects the bold character of the northern Shaanxi people. It is a two-sentence paragraph, paragraph and paragraph can be divided into a joint, can also be independent of a song, similar to the "loose song".
The folk songs of northern Shaanxi reflect the richness of social life. Now popular in northern Shaanxi folk songs, most of which were produced in the late 19th century to the 1940s, both reflecting the content of social change, but also the content of the "long work song", reflecting the people of northern Shaanxi Province on the oppression of the feudal unification of the exploitation of the class of resistance, in particular, the revolutionary history of the folk songs, is a batch of precious revolutionary historical data. Like the famous "When the Red Army's brother came back", "Shandandandan blossom red color", etc., is very valuable. However, among the more than 8,000 Shaanxi folk songs, such works are, after all, a minority. Most of the works reflect ordinary people and ordinary things. For example: a small daughter-in-law wants her mother's home, a big girl looking forward to getting married, the girl child fortune-telling, drummers to welcome the bride, out of the people miss their hometown, young people talk about love, couples quarrels and teasing. Also, the stonemasons with song to decorate the monotonous sound of the hammer; farmers with song to expel loneliness and sadness; drive the livestock people will be the melodious song sprinkled all over the rugged lanes; sentimental daughter-in-law with song to pour out the heart of grief. These are basically the expression of feelings. In addition, the people of northern Shaanxi also use folk songs to serve their daily lives: cargos with songs to sell, farmers with songs to pray for rain, the New Year's festivals with songs to celebrate, entertainment, men and women with songs to celebrate the wedding ceremony, drinking with songs to guessing, with songs to into the historical story, with songs to socialize, with songs to recount major historical events, men and women with songs of young people to talk about love, with songs to recount new people and new things, and even on the graves! Even the weeping at the graveside is replaced by songs. Even scandals for thousands of miles, to the song; strange people and strange things, to the song of praise due to historical and natural conditions, the economic backwardness of northern Shaanxi, culturally underdeveloped, coupled with sparse population, living in scattered, and therefore, the feudal consciousness of the rule here, relatively speaking, is relatively weak. Some remote mountainous areas had previously circulated "three strange" ballad: "sand wall wall wall does not fall, aunt-in-law married Han Han not annoyed, john jumped the wall dog does not bite". Visible Shaanxi ideology a spot.