Chang 'an Shehuo

Composer: Zhao Jiping and Lu Rirong

The music is based on the high-pitched and passionate Qin opera. Through the description of the folk activities of people celebrating the Spring Festival with gongs and drums, singing and dancing during the traditional New Year in the northern countryside of China, the farmers' praise for a better life and yearning for the future are shown.

Music has a distinctive theme, pleasant melody, forceful momentum, vigorous and heroic, rich local characteristics and distinctive flavor of the times. The sliding of the Zheng is like a clear spring, which leads to a kind and beautiful middle part of the music, like a girl dancing. With the ensemble of gaohu and gongs and drums, the mood of "social fire" became higher and higher, and the music ended in a magnificent climax. The music fully displays the characteristics of percussion music such as gaohu, erhu, guzheng and gongs and drums, showing a rich picture of northern Shaanxi customs.

Shehuo is a traditional folk entertainment activity in Xi 'an. Hundreds of operas, which originated in Qin and Han Dynasties, prevailed in Tang and Song Dynasties. Shehuo is often held on Chinese New Year and other festive days, with rich music and various traditional tunes. Performances include lion dancing, dragon lantern playing, walking on stilts, canoeing, big-headed dolls and so on. One of the most distinctive features is the "core", which disguises children as characters in Qin opera, binds them to poles tens of feet high, and makes various vivid action shapes during the March to attract people to watch.