Northern Shaanxi folk songs are heroic, so what is the origin of northern Shaanxi folk songs?

Folk songs in northern Shaanxi are traditional folk songs in northern Shaanxi, which are divided into three categories: labor chant, belief in heaven and minor. Labor songs include tamping songs, smashing songs, quarrying songs, cattle songs and playing songs. Xintianyou can be divided into high-pitched cavity and flat cavity. These traditional folk songs, each with its own genre and characteristics, reflect all aspects of social life and sing the joys and sorrows of the people in northern Shaanxi. When the social system changes fundamentally, the content and form of folk songs also change. This change is reflected in the new social life and new characters in content, and it also gives new meanings to various genres.

Northern Shaanxi is located in the Loess Plateau, bordering the Western Jin Dynasty in the east, Tongchuan in the south, Ningxia and Gansu in the west and Inner Mongolia in the north. Since ancient times, frequent wars have seriously damaged the ecological environment, and over the years, a landscape of thousands of valleys has been formed. In this living environment, people in northern Shaanxi have developed optimistic, heroic, hardworking, brave and simple characters. Folk songs in northern Shaanxi are the product of the collision between the mountainous plateau terrain and the heavy and simple emotions of the people in northern Shaanxi, the reflection of the people's life in northern Shaanxi, the faithful record of the social history in this area, the life epic collectively created by tens of thousands of working people in Qian Qian, and the cry of the soul for freedom and happiness.

Northern Shaanxi is the birthplace of Chinese civilization. Historically, it was the meeting place of frequent exchanges between Han nationality and ethnic minorities, with constant wars and large population mobility, which gradually stabilized in the Yuan Dynasty. Under this background, the folk songs in northern Shaanxi bear the trace of the great integration of multi-ethnic cultures in the northwest, and at the same time, they have changed the national psychological characteristics and the aesthetic form of culture and art in this area. Northern Shaanxi has been a region of ethnic integration since ancient times. Due to the special natural environment, folk songs with rough style and strong local characteristics have been formed. People in northern Shaanxi are Han people, but because of the mixed ethnic groups, the ethnic veins are constantly merging and reorganizing. Compared with other Han people, people in northern Shaanxi are not pure Han people. The fusion of consanguinity brings the advantages of ethnic groups, and also precipitates the psychological characteristics and expressions of related ethnic groups. For example, the singing and dancing nature of people in northern Shaanxi has created singing and dancing arts such as flowers, yangko and dry boat running.

It is this profound regional cultural connotation and special geographical position and characteristics that gradually formed the rich cultural background of northern Shaanxi, and it is also under this background that the unique artistic expression form of northern Shaanxi folk songs was formed.

Historically, northern Shaanxi and Hetao areas have always been plundered areas between the Central Plains regime and the northern minority regimes. Until the Song Dynasty, it was mainly controlled by Jin, Xixia and other minority regimes, and farming culture and nomadic culture coexisted difficultly.

After the failure of the Mongolian and Yuan regime, the Chinese nation was basically unified. During the Ming Dynasty, the government organized many immigrants from western Shanxi, Jinzhong, southern Shanxi and densely populated areas in the south to northern Shaanxi. Because most immigrants are Jin people, a language based on Jin people has been formed in northern Shaanxi. The Jin family occupied the northern Shaanxi Plateau with a strong battle, and also brought the Central Plains culture dominated by Jin culture. Of course, the language of the original inhabitants has also been largely preserved. For example, the village names in Yanchuan County include Cheguli, Longerze and Tuguli. , showing the tone of the northern minorities. There are "Da"-Father, "Ma Keqing Tea"-crisp and neat in northern Shaanxi dialect, which should all be native languages. The language of the occupied people stubbornly remained in the original land.