The music language is concise and concise, the music image is vivid and vivid, and the expression techniques are rich and diverse. Common folk genres include: labor chants, folk songs, minor tunes, children's songs, folk songs, etc. Among them, "Hua'er" and "Xintianyou" are the most representative.

"Hua'er" is a folk song popular in Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia. Its basic characteristics are: the melody is high-pitched and long, and it is often sung in falsetto or a combination of true and false voices.

Its rhythm is free, simple and generous, high-pitched and long-lasting. The sentence structure is very special, usually there are two sentences in each stanza, two sentences have one rhyme, and the rhyme may or may not be changed in the next stanza. The first sentence creates excitement and comparison, and the next sentence punctuates the question. A short song may have only one verse, but a long song may last for dozens or even hundreds of verses.

Extended information

In the local area, people are accustomed to standing on slopes or at the bottom of ditches and shouting or talking loudly from a distance. For this purpose, they often stretch their voices very long, so they A free and scattered rhythm is formed between the high and low lengths, and the singing tune highly concentratedly displays the natural landscape, social features of the plateau and the spiritual world of the people of northern Shaanxi.

Xintianyou is a song of sacrifice to life and an ode to love by people in northern Shaanxi. Its long-lasting vitality comes from the endless love and affection on the vast Loess Plateau. Blue sky, white clouds, yellow earth, and Xintianyou are the most beautiful scenery in northern Shaanxi. ?Yulin is the hometown of Xintianyou. Xintianyou is another name for folk songs in northern Shaanxi. It has lingering tunes, beautiful melodies and deeply emotional lyrics.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Northwestern Folk Songs