Xingshan County is the hometown of Wang Zhaojun, who is known as the "ambassador of national friendship". For more than two thousand years, Wang Zhaojun's deeds have been praised by literati and poets, and also by the people in his hometown.

Xingshan folk songs

Xingshan folk songs, with a long history, strange tones and obscurity, are unique flowers in the forest of music. More than 20 years ago, it has been verified as the remains of Bachu ancient sound, and it is known as the "living fossil of Bachu ancient sound". The outstanding feature of Xingshan folk songs is that the scale (sequence) structure contains intervals between major and minor scheduling. According to the measurement of the Acoustics Laboratory of the Music Institute of the Chinese Academy of Art, the interval value is mostly around 345 minutes, and the wandering range is 350 15 minutes. It is named after Xingshan by experts according to international practice, which is referred to as "Xingshan characteristic three-level interval" or "Xingshan three-level interval".

Weeding, beating gongs and drums

Weeding, beating gongs and drums have a long history. According to the records of Zhou Li, Chun Guan and Zhang Zhan, it has a history of at least several thousand years. Xingshan grass and gongs and drums are good carriers of Xingshan folk songs. Because of this, Xingshan folk songs have been preserved for more than 1000 years. Cutting grass, gongs and drums are the forms of performance, and Xingshan folk songs are the content of singing. Both are indispensable. Grass-cutting gongs and drums were originally used to cut grass in corn, and also used in collective labor such as land reclamation. Cutting grass, gongs and drums are nicknamed "agricultural drama" by farmers in Xingshan, which is a drama sung by farmers in Tanaka.

Xingshan has the most kinds of gongs and drums, and its preserved form is the most primitive. It can be divided into flower gongs and drums that sing love songs (also known as flower songs and dirty songs) and drums that sing legendary stories (including dark stories) without singing love songs. Flowers, gongs and drums are distributed in a vast area in the south of Xingshan, and drums are distributed in hazelnut township in the north and a few adjacent areas. There are three kinds of flowers, gongs and drums: three gongs and drums, four gongs and drums and five gongs and drums. There are also three kinds of folk songs: big and small. All kinds of flowers, gongs and drums have different vocal methods, different trumpets and different performances. All musical instruments are only big gongs (big gongs and wide gongs) and small drums, but the number of gongs and drums used varies according to the number of mowers, from one gong and one drum to four gongs and three drums.

Dihuagu

Xingshan Flower Drum, commonly known as "Flower Drum", has been circulating in Xingshan County for hundreds of years. "Xingshan County Records" (Tongzhi Edition in Qing Dynasty) records: "On the first day of New Year's Day, there are various zaju performances such as Panlong, lion dance and Huagu. It is closely related to people's living customs, and it can be seen in occasions such as Spring Festival Lantern Festival, weddings, funerals, birthday celebrations, celebrating children's happiness, and building beams.

Waigu

There are many kinds of folk instrumental music in Xingshan, including drums (also called eight tones), six tones (also called purring), popular family business, and concept calling.

The drum around Xingshan Mountain was formerly a cannon circulating around Wudang Mountain, including the border area of Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi. Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty (about 1855) was introduced to Xingshan. /kloc-since 0/50 years, it has been combined with Xingshan folk art to form a "drum around Xingshan" with local characteristics. It not only retains the rough temperament of northern percussion music, but also has the euphemistic style of southern percussion music, which is different from the "drum-winding" in Hubei and Sichuan and has its own characteristics. The external bone vein of Xingshan is clear and the pedigree is complete, which has been transmitted to 1 1 generation. There are more than 300 pieces of qupai around Xingshan Drum, which can be divided into three categories. Among them, five tunes come from Taoist music. There are not many such tunes, about 40 pieces, which are treasures in Xingshan Drum, and they are usually played in rows.