The Qinghai Han folk ditty is one of the genres of Chinese folk songs. It is a generic term used only recently. It is also called "Xiaoqu", "Slang", and "Time Tune", etc. It is a folk song that people use to express their feelings and entertain themselves after labor, in daily life, and during weddings, funerals and festivals. Because there are professional artists and semi-professional artists singing, and with the song, opera has a thousand links, so the processing and refining of the ingredients more, less improvisation of the words, songs, more stereotypes, art is more mature and perfect. Therefore, the ditties are relatively widespread, spreading to cities and towns, and their contents are widely related to the lives of people of all social strata. The rural ditties reflect the daily life in the countryside, especially the love and marriage life of rural women; the urban ditties involve the lives of small craftsmen, merchants, citizens and prostitutes and beggars at the bottom of the social stratum, as well as the entertainment and play, natural scenery, knowledge of life, and folktales, etc. The ditties express the delicate and twisted feelings. Xiao Xiao expresses the delicate and twisted feelings, the form is more regular, and the methods of expression are rich and varied. According to the different content, can be divided into four categories of ditties lyric songs, witty songs, children's songs and custom songs.
Most of the ditties are in the form of sectional songs, a song with multiple phrases, often using the four seasons, five shifts, twelve hours and other time sequences, multi-faceted, detailed statement of the content. In order to adapt to the needs of the words of multiple segments, its tune is generalized, condensed to express a certain mood (or soft, or sad, or cheerful), tuneful, melodic, smooth, winding, melodic line is rich and varied, strong expressive power. The singing of Qinghai Meidu is different from that of Qinqiang. Qinqiang in Qinghai, all with Shaanxi Qinqiang singing, music, work, often invited to the "Qinqiang authentic" master as a guide. And Meitou opera is blended into a strong local flavor, especially the spitting words and phrases, chanting and singing with the Qinghai dialect, absorbing a lot of folk tunes, flat-string music, etc., more popular with the masses in Qinghai.