Shuo County's big rice-planting songs were formed in the early Qing Dynasty, and were derived from the kicking drum rice-planting songs and small rice-planting songs. Shuo County is located in the border, the people's style of martial arts, the major villages are equipped with special coaching martial arts "martial arts field". In order to increase the entertainment, martial arts practitioners waist with drums, playing sound, so that boxing gradually dance, so produced the kick drum rice-planting song. Kick drum rice-planting song is a large site, there are collective dance and a variety of complex formations change to dance, for the masses to see. The small rice-planting song is a small opera with a simple plot performed by two or three people, with folk songs as the main songs, winning people with songs, which the masses like to hear. Every year in the winter, the "martial arts workshop" and the "cultural workshop" that coaches the small rice-planting songs tend to gather together for rehearsals; in the first month of the following year, in February, and in the summer after the June and July performances, they tend to travel in pairs. Over time, the two workshops were merged into one, forming the "Yangge Workshop". The two performances also penetrate each other, fusion and growth, and gradually formed a more complete form of performance, both singing and dancing "earth stalls Yangge".
The earth stalls rice-planting songs can be organized in larger groups to perform in the streets and lanes, and can also be performed in the courtyard. During the performance of "crossing the street", it is mostly a big scene with changing formations, and during the performance of "entering the courtyard", it is mostly a congratulatory "happy song" sung in the sound of gongs and drums. Gradually, there appeared some fixed repertoires with simple storylines, such as "Cutting Red Satin", "Playing Sour Jujubes", "Buying Goose and Pear", "Pulling the Old Man", "Preparing Horses for the Expedition", "Single Phoenix and Sunrise", "Double Hanging Seals", etc. The music gradually became specialized in particular songs. Gradually, the music became specialized, forming fixed tunes. In the performance, it has also accumulated such as "Dai Zong San Liang Style", "Tengkong Whirlwind", "Big and Small Controlling Steps", "One Word and Four Pin Steps", "Rabbit Steps", "Hare Steps", and so on. The fixed programs such as "Dai Zong San Liang Style", "Tengkong Huo Feng", "Big and Small Controlling Steps", "One Character Four Pin Steps", "Rabbit Spinning Nest", etc. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, with the development and innovation of the rice-planting songs, a lot of popular rice-planting artists emerged in various villages, and a new form of organization - "save the class" appeared, and this kind of class aggregated the reputable rice-planting artists, and used the drums and boards in accordance with the section, the silk and bamboo with the cavity, and left the soil to perform. This kind of class society brings together the reputable rice-antique artists, who use drums and boards to perform according to the rhythm, and then leave the soil stalls and mount the stage with the silk and bamboo. After a long history of breeding, the land of Shuozhou finally formed its own type of opera - big rice-planting songs.