The repertoire of Suomi suona music in northern Shaanxi is rich and varied, with different styles. The origins of the songs include:
One, with the introduction of suona, some special songs were introduced at the same time.
Secondly, new tunes were created by grafting with Han music and folk songs. The suona played some local folk songs and ditties at that time, which won the favor of the lower class people, and the folk songs and ditties became an inexhaustible source of suona music and a fertile ground to maintain the evergreen life of suona art. For example, suona tunes such as "Going Down to the South", "Crying for the Great Wall", "Pumpkin Vine", "Scraping Wind", "Lion Order", etc., are suona music recreated from Han folk songs and folk ditties. In the process of long-term performance, the lyrics disappeared, and only the original folk songs and names were retained. In the modern folk songs there are also a lot of music has been adapted into the classic suona song, such as "embroidered gold plaque", "five brother sheep", "supporting the army rice-planting song" and so on.
Third, taken from theater music. A part of the origin of theater music, after re-creation, also used in the theater stage, such as blowing over the field cards, accompanied by singing. A part of the theater tunes, such as the Jin opera music tunes "water dragon", "Liu Qingniang", "to the spring", "crying the emperor", etc., evolved into suona tunes.
Four, absorbing religious music to form the tune, such as "I do not know the tune", "a thousand voices of Buddha", "West Wind Zan", "four in four" and so on.
Fifth, the composers of the song. After the liberation, many musicians who love folk music created a lot of Shaanxi Sui, rice suona song. Such as Shaanxi Opera Research Institute vice president Xu Guangming (Suide nationality) for Suide Han suona group created the northern Shaanxi suona tune "boiling yellow land" "haunted the Lantern Festival", these works for the northern Shaanxi sui rice suona music injected fresh blood, enriching the northern Shaanxi sui rice suona tune treasure trove.
Beijing Suomi suona has an indispensable connection with all aspects of social life, such as life, death, marriage, and entertaining the gods and people in northern Shaanxi. Its use can be divided into: First, the celebration suona. The festive suona is mainly used for occasions such as birthdays and full moons, celebrations of longevity, wedding ceremonies, festivals and entertainment, and opening ceremonies. Commonly used songs are "Big Open Door", "Big Pendulum", "Praise of the West Wind", etc., as well as modern songs.
Two, entertaining God ritual suona. When the Taoist temple fair, the Spring Festival Yangge visit the temple to invite the gods and other occasions, there are suona playing. Commonly used songs are "Open Temple Gate", "West Wind Praise" and so on.
Three, mourning suona. Mourning suona is mainly played at funeral ceremonies, and the commonly used songs include "Flower Road", "Scattering Silver", "Meng Jiangnu Weeping at the Great Wall" and so on.
Suide library of suona music "special volume, has been included in the northern Shaanxi Suomi suona song more than a thousand.
The main forms of suona playing in northern Shaanxi are "dynamic" and "static". Dynamic blowing is generally accompanied by welcoming relatives, funerals, rice-planting songs, temple visits, and inviting the gods to play in the procession. Blowing distance varies, if the village is connected to the village road, in the traveling continuously blowing more than 20 miles. "Static" blowing in a variety of blowing occasions, drumming class in the court yard range seat blowing, blowing time to the project rituals for the length of time shall prevail, as long as 2-3 hours, as short as a few minutes.
In recent years, the suona blowing and dance and other arts combined, choreographed suona literary program, on stage to play.