2. Xikou Love Song is a multi-angle and multi-level folk song that perfectly presents women's consciousness. There is an old saying in the birthplace of Xikou folk songs, "Hequ defends Texas, and it won't be collected for ten years and nine years. Men speak out and women pick bitter vegetables." In the face of harsh natural conditions, men can only leave their homes and leave their wives outside their mouths to make a living, while these "foreigner" aunts can only sing "Brother, you go out of the west, but it is really difficult for my little sister to stay" and have to bear the burden of the family alone.
3. These Shanxi folk songs revolve around the history of hundreds of years of westward advancement, telling the fate of millions of westerners, revealing the hardships of life and singing the suffering of missing. Countless love songs tell the whole process of many women facing their beloved men, from initiation of love, frolicking, teasing, engagement, marriage, staying together, to parting, missing love, suffering, longing for return, and then reunion. This historical culture is completely presented from generation to generation. The author will list the classic lyrics in Xikou love songs, show the female images in different scenes, and then analyze the humanistic background and cultural connotation of Xikou love songs.