Folk songs in northern Shaanxi are traditional folk songs in northern Shaanxi, which are divided into three categories: labor chant, belief in heaven and minor. Labor songs include tamping songs, smashing songs, quarrying songs, cattle songs and playing songs; Xintianyou can be divided into high strength and peace. These traditional folk songs with different schools and characteristics reflect all aspects of social life and sing the joys and sorrows of the people in northern Shaanxi. When the social system changes fundamentally, the content and form of folk songs also change.
This change is reflected in the new social life and new characters in content, and it also gives new meanings to various genres. In June 2008, with the approval of the State Council, the folk songs of northern Shaanxi declared by Yulin City and Yan 'an City in Shaanxi Province were included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.
Characteristics of Xintianyou
Xintianyou, beautiful melody, free voice, wide range, loud and unrestrained, beautiful. Locals commonly known as tits, Shuntian Tour. 20 1 1 was announced by Shaanxi provincial government as the third batch of intangible cultural heritage projects in Shaanxi province. However, it has won the love and appreciation of the people with its simple language, rich local characteristics and beautiful and moving tunes, and has been sung from generation to generation for a long time.
The most representative folk song in northern Shaanxi, Xintianyou, is a magnificent flower, which can be said to be the representative of the Han music culture in northern China. With the development of the times, Xintianyou has also given new content.
From 1943 to 1948, the famous poet Li Ji collected more than 3,000 poems about believing in God during his work in northern Shaanxi. On this basis, he created a long poem "Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang" in the form of faithfulness, which was serialized in Trilateral Newspaper and Liberation Daily, which shocked the literary world for a while and caused a sensation throughout the country.