Folk songs in northern Shaanxi are commonly known as "folk songs" or "sour songs" in the local area. Formally, it can be divided into belief in Heaven, minor, labor chant, dance music, folk songs and religious songs. The more common ones are travel in heaven and minor. Xintianyou is the most distinctive folk song in northern Shaanxi, which constitutes the main body of folk songs in northern Shaanxi. The tune is long and high-pitched, rough and unrestrained, and the rhythm is beautiful. Its content mostly reflects love, marriage, daily life, resistance to oppression and freedom.
Northern Shaanxi, located in the Loess Plateau, is connected by ravines. People who live here work and farm in the mountains, and the porters who drive ghosts have an affair with local women. They walked between steep mountain roads and deep ravines. In the heavy and monotonous life, one is to relieve one's sadness and loneliness, vent one's loneliness and masturbate. Second, when I recall my family, friends and loved ones, I will see the scenery and send my feelings to the scene. Make up and sing at will, express your feelings and feelings with high-pitched and long songs, and tell your love and pursuit of a better life, so as to release the accumulated depression and sadness in your heart.
Xintianyou in northern Shaanxi is a folk song, which was sung by the working people of the lower classes in the old society when they were working in the ravine of Shan Ye. It is also the cry of northern Shaanxi people for their own destiny and life in the tragic life of "men leave mouths and women dig vegetables". So some places call it "folk songs" and "mountain climbing tune". Because a large part of them are singing colorful emotional thoughts between men and women, they are also called "acid songs".
Xintianyou is the most distinctive and long-lasting folk song on the Loess Plateau. Its tunes are colorful and all-encompassing, and are deeply loved by working people. There is a saying among the people in northern Shaanxi that "the belief in heaven will never stop, and poverty will solve its worries." There is even a saying that "believing in heaven is like not having an argument, when you sing, when you have it". It can be seen that Xintianyou and the people of northern Shaanxi are connected by blood and inseparable.
The format of "A Sky Tour of Belief in Northern Shaanxi" is two sentences and one paragraph, which applies "comparing one thing with another" and "telling other things first to make the words sing" in poetry. ("Biography of Zhu Poetry") often begins with the first sentence, and the next sentence sings the noumenon content, which sets off each other into an inseparable unity. It sounds like a breath, such as three folds of sunshine, and the lingering sound is endless.
The content of the new day tour in northern Shaanxi is nothing more than the love and praise for hometown, the yearning and pursuit of a better life, and the singing of the feelings between men and women of "cutting constantly and returning to chaos".
People in northern Shaanxi live in hilly loess plateau and grow up drinking the Yellow River. They are as flat as the yellow earth and as deep and tall as the Yellow River. Despite the bleak situation of "ten years and nine droughts", the people of northern Shaanxi still love this yellow land that breeds and nurtures Iraq.