Xining is a city in Qinghai Province.
Xining is the capital of Qinghai Province, known as Xiping County and Qingtang City in ancient times. Located in the northeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, it is the political, economic, scientific and technological, cultural, transportation and medical center of the province. Xining has a total area of 7,660 square kilometers, with an urban area of 476.5 square kilometers and a planned built-up area of 118 square kilometers.
Xining under the jurisdiction of five districts, two counties and Xining (national) Economic and Technological Development Zone, is the only population of more than one million people in the Tibetan Plateau, the center of the city, but also "the source of the Three Rivers" and "Chinese water tower" national ecological security barrier construction service base and It is also the service base and backyard for the construction of the national ecological security barrier of "the source of the three rivers" and "the Chinese water tower". The city has good ecology, pleasant environment, air quality for five consecutive years in the northwest provincial capital of the forefront, "China's summer capital".
Folk culture:
1, music
Theatre mainly Meitou Opera, Pingxin Opera, Tibetan Opera, Lantern Shadow Opera, Yu Opera, Qinqiang.
Theatrical art mainly includes Pingxian, Yuexian, Xiaxian, Daoxian, and Xianxiao.
Song and dance music mainly includes the social fire of the Han Chinese, the Anzhao of the Tu Chinese, the banquet dance of the Hui Chinese, the wedding dance of the Salar Chinese, the potshuang dance of the Tibetan Chinese, and the temple music played by Tibetan Buddhist monasteries during rituals, ceremonies and pujas.
2. Folk Songs
The main folk songs are "Hua'er", which is a favorite of the Han, Hui, Tu, and Salar tribes, and "Yi" of the Tibetans.
Qinghai is the "flowers" of the hometown, Huangshui flowers is the essence of the Northwest flowers, the most beautiful "flowers" is the purest source of water with three rivers watering the holy flowers. Live here in the Han, Tibet, Hui, soil, Salad and other ethnic groups, whether in the field farming, mountain grazing, work or road to catch a car, as long as there is leisure time, are to roam on a few melodious "flowers".
"Flowers" is produced in Qinghai, and popular in the Qing, Gan, Ning, New and other areas of a mountain song, sings a wide range of words, high literary and artistic value, known as the soul of the Northwest. "Hua'er" originated in Linxia, due to the popularity of different regions, coupled with the development process by the influence of the culture of various ethnic groups in the Northwest, so the formation of different genres and artistic styles.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Xining