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 is a special genre of northern Shaanxi folk songs, which can best represent the charm and characteristics of northern Shaanxi folk songs. Its rhythm is free and lively, simple and generous. The sentence structure is very special. It is stipulated that each section has two sentences, two sentences and one rhyme, and the next section can be changed or not. A short song may have only one paragraph, or it may be dozens or even hundreds of paragraphs.
In northern Shaanxi, the artistic technique of "believing in heaven" is becoming more and more popular. The latter metaphor is heartfelt, lyrical, free and unrestrained, passionate and romantic, and beautiful in tune. Folk singers can express their ambitions with implicit humor at will and sing without hesitation. Singing in Shan Ye, listening to the sounds of nature, floating on the cliff, listening to the sounds of trees and flowers, let her swim with the wind, so it is also called "Shuntian Tour". Her sentence patterns are simple and changeable. There is no such simple and convenient expression. Just like the character of people in northern Shaanxi: straightforward, generous, open-minded and capable.
The tune of "Xintianyou" is composed of upper and lower paragraphs repeatedly, and the structural relationship is balanced and clear. There is no strict limit to the number of words in each lyric, but it should rhyme symmetrically. The trivial things in life, sewing, flirting, constitute the basic material of the letter-day tour.