The repertoire of Henan Zheng comes directly from folk rap music and opera music. Henan tune is a folk rap music with a long history. It declined after the Qing Dynasty. It is still very prosperous only in Nanyang area, so it is also called Nanyang drum tune. Its important components are the "Pai Zi Qu" with lyrics and the purely instrumental "Bantou Qu". Zheng is an important accompaniment instrument. At the same time, it is also played independently from rap. The representative repertoire of the Henan Zheng School is almost without exception the bantou and paizi tunes of Henan. In the past, when artists met each other, they would often play a bantou song first to get to know each other. The song was renamed "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" based on the story of Boya and Zhong Ziqi.

Paizi tunes evolved from the tunes of Guzi Qu. Most of them are short, fresh and lively, and unique, such as "Jianjianhua", "Manzhou", "Dieluo", etc. But there are also Daqu cards with more than 300 pieces like "Dock".

The bantou song is an ensemble piece played with strings, and it is also a solo piece for the zither, pipa and sanxian. It is very similar to the "dan song" of Xianghe music in the Han and Wei dynasties. The folk performance method is to play one or two songs in an ensemble or solo before singing the drum music, and tune the strings and move the fingers, which is called the opening or stage; or play a song between the arias to change the atmosphere. In the past half century, major-key tunes have tended to decline, and bantu tunes often appear in the form of solos.

Among the traditional repertoire of Henan Zheng, bantou tunes are often called "Zhongzhou ancient tunes" or "Zhongzhou ancient tunes", such as "Crying for Zhou Yu", "Sighing Yan Hui" and "Su Wu's Homesickness" And so on. Among Henan operas, some short tunes have gradually formed a form of "minor tunes" with division of roles and can be performed on stage. Today it has become a very famous opera type "Henan Opera". The minor-key tune was originally relatively simple, but later, the melody developed; the zither played an important role in the accompaniment, and gradually acquired its own personality in performance, a combination of the two. It forms its unique beauty in music.

For the collection of Henan Zheng scores, Huangshi, the king of Weihui Prefecture, published the lithographic version of "Zhongzhou Drum Diao" in the ninth year of the Republic of China (AD 192O). ) "Cry Zhou'", "Die Luo", etc. In the 1920s, Wei Ziyou compiled "Zhongzhou Ancient Diao" as a Gongchipu manuscript. Although it has not been published, it has been widely copied and includes more than ten poems such as "Tian Xia Da Tong" and "Guan Ju". Wang Shengwu published the "Guzheng Solo Music Collection" in 1958 (notated by Liu Jiagui and published by Henan People's Publishing House) in simplified musical notation, which contains thirty-seven Ban Tou pieces and fourteen Qu Pai pieces. Cao Dongfu's musical score was once compiled into "Selected Zheng Music". In 1981, People's Music Publishing House published "Cao Dongfu's Zheng Music Collection" (edited by Cao Yong'an and Li Bian) in simplified musical notation, which contains twenty-two bantou songs. and eight arrangements and compositions. In 1986, Cao Zheng published "Anthology of Zhongzhou Ancient Diao Zheng Music" (a supplement to "Chinese Music"), a comparative version of simplified scores and regular scores, including twenty paizi tunes and bantou tunes.