Northern Shaanxi folk songs (陕北民歌) are popular in the hillside ditch depression, fields and villages of Yulin and Yan’an. It is the song that northern Shaanxi Han working people for generations to come "feeling of grief, the margin of Matter". Northern Shaanxi folk songs history can be traced back to the ancient Han Dynasty magical song and ritual Yangko tone, and it is closely linked to the Spring Festival "downtown prosperous" custom.
Folk song is the easiest form of art. It is born with the working people who living in northern Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi history and folk activities and it has been transmitted. Such as "porters tune" has only three notes, which is more primitively reflected Xintianyou working life of people in northern Shaanxi. Another example is "troop movement song" reflects that in the Qing Dynasty Shunzhi five or six years, the Qing government crackdown revolt facts.
Before the 1930s, northern Shaanxi folk songs of life are sang when the people in accordance with their customs, in farmland, going to a fair, grazing, drinking, enjoying holidays, building a house, celebrating birthday, weddings and marriage, and other scenes of life in the temple, touch objects by hygiene conditions, impromptu sing out, and gradually formed a high-pitched, bold, rough, melodious style. Northern Shaanxi folk songs are popular because of verbal sung. By collective innovations and prosperous, reflecting different aspects of life in northern Shaanxi people, history and social change.
In northern Shaanxi, people's happiness, anger, sadness and joy even all emotion can be expressed in the form of folk songs. Whether he is standing on top of the mountains, or take the winding mountain road, or traveling on level ground, and everywhere you can hear the wind floated melodious singing. This is the northern Shaanxi folk songs. "Women cry grief, sorrow men sing the song." In fact, both men and women in northern Shaanxi like folk songs. On the Loess Plateau, there are aunts singing in plaintive and low voice, and the songs of young man who "stopped the return of cattle sheep voice sound". Northern Shaanxi is the world of folk songs, the sea of folk songs.
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