The Cultural Development of Xiping Town

There are many types of Xiping folk songs, including folk songs, labor songs, love songs, life songs and children's songs, among which labor songs, love songs and life songs have strong local characteristics. The labor songs of Xiping folk songs include labor songs and rammed songs, which have the functions of coordinating actions, directing labor and inspiring emotions. Tian Ge, a fisherman's song, depicts labor scenes and tells labor feelings; Craftsman songs and tea-picking songs are good at reflecting social life and expressing feelings. The expression of love songs in Xiping folk songs is simple, vivid, humorous and humorous, with a sense of picture and image. Whether it is to express the passion of love, the lingering of lovesickness, the sadness of parting and the desire for love, it is straightforward and simple. In Xiping folk songs, there are many forms of antithesis. Among them, only the flower series has large flowers, small flowers and flowers. At present, Xiping folk songs have been selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in June 2008.

According to research, folk songs were sung in Xiping area in Han Dynasty and became popular in Tang Dynasty. Legend has it that after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin left the meritorious soldiers collectively in the deep mountains and streams in western Henan and eastern Shaanxi to cultivate the land, fearing that they would take credit for their arrogance and revolt. Because life is boring, they sing, play charades and play songs at work to relieve fatigue and depression. By the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, western Anhui was dry and sparsely populated. Immigrants under the locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi, and immigrants from Hubei, Anhui, met in Xiping Town. Various cultures blend and collide with each other, and people who have left their homes express their joys and sorrows through folk songs, which promotes the great prosperity and development of Xiping folk songs. As a result, folk songs, a traditional folk language art, developed and passed down in Xiping, an ancient land.