Cheangli rice-planting song is a form of rice-planting song that reflects the farmers' interest in life and the distinctive and unique dance style, which reflects the agricultural society, part of the characteristics of the rural life and the optimistic and witty mental outlook of the farmers. However, due to the rapid social and economic development, the ageing of the artists and other reasons, the inheritance of Changli rice-planting songs is facing a serious situation, and is in urgent need of rescue and protection.
After the founding of New China, the famous Changli rice-planting song artists Zhou Guobao, Zhou Guozhen and Zhang Qian changed the content into the story of a farmer who sent his daughter-in-law back to her mother's home, and the tone of the performance was also refreshed, which fully embodied the peculiar fun of the rice-planting song performance, with humorous and comical dance movements, red-hot and enthusiastic performance scenes, and distinctive and bright characters, which produced extraordinary comedic effects. In 1953, this program won the first national folk music and dance festival, was awarded the excellent program, and made into a movie, and pushed to the whole country. 1956, the Central Song and Dance Troupe took the donkey running program taught by Zhou Guobao and others to participate in the World Democratic Youth Festival held in Budapest, Hungary, and won the Silver Medal. The famous Yangge operas in Changli Rice-planting Song include Butterfly Puffing, Sawing a Cylinder, Wang Erxiao Catching Feet, Foolish Pillar Receiving Daughter-in-Law, Donkey Running, etc. The dance of Changli Rice-planting Song is very popular. The dance of Changli Rice-planting Song emphasizes the coordination of all body parts, with flexible twisting of shoulders, hips, knees and wrists, and the performance is witty and interesting. The Zhou School represented by the famous folk artist Zhou Guobao, the Zhang School represented by Zhang Qian, the Lu School represented by Lu Fengchun, and several other styles of rice-planting songs have their own charms and are well known in the household.
The movements of Changli's rice-planting songs are simple and easy to learn, and the songs are red-hot and exuberant, joyful and happy. Villages have a lot of rice-planting song family, their annual activities, passed down from generation to generation, the whole family a piece of rice-planting song, both artistic enjoyment, but also the joy of family. The more influential famous rice-planting song artists are Zhou Guobao, Zhang Qian, Qin Huan, Lu Fengchun and others. They have been hired by some of the country's art colleges, cultural organizations to teach and spread the art.
Changli rice-planting song art in the post-liberation development to the heyday, through the combination of professional group art workers and folk artists, the Changli rice-planting song art carried out several large-scale excavation and finishing and reform and innovation, so that Changli rice-planting song program repeatedly participated in the National Folk Music and Dance Concerts, and won many awards.
Changli rice-planting song after further innovation, the more twisted the more fire, one after another in the Asian Games windsurfing area opening ceremony, Shenyang International Rice-planting Festival, the National Square Dance Competition, and other major activities and events to win awards. 1996, Changli County was named by the Ministry of Culture as the hometown of Chinese folk art.
The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, on May 20, 2006, Changli Earth Rice-planting Song was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.