Xintianyou is an intangible cultural heritage.

Xintianyou is a form of folk song spread in northwest China. It is a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation engraved with old ingots on the northwest Loess Plateau. It is a strange flower between Huangpo and Huangshui. Its lyrics It is a style of up-and-down sentence variation with the basic sentence format of the seven-character pattern 223, and is famous for its romantic Bixing technique. It is a folk song in northern Shaanxi. In northern Shaanxi, it is called Xintianyou, also known as Shuntianyou and Xiaoqu. In Shanxi, it is called Shanqu, and in Inner Mongolia, it is called Shanshan Diao.

The form is free and flexible, each two sentences is a section and rhymes. Some sections express one meaning, and some sections form a part to express more complex meanings. The tune is free, simple and easy to sing. Duan often turns to rhyme, often using overlapping characters and interlining characters. Xintianyou's Bixing is very extensive, ranging from the sun, moon and stars, wind, clouds, rain and dew, to flowers, plants and trees, birds, animals, insects and fish, as well as firewood, rice, oil and salt, grains, food, clothing and daily life. You can compare with others.

Formal Rhythm

Xintianyou's lyrics are generally in two-sentence style. The first sentence is an interesting comparison, and the second sentence is a punctuation. It is basically an improvisation. These colloquial verses are out of place Amazing, vivid and highly artistic. Its content mainly reflects love, marriage, resistance to oppression and the fight for freedom. People in northern Shaanxi sing Xintianyou, which not only sings about the joy of life, but also sings about personal sorrow. It is both romantic and realistic. It is the pursuit of the beauty of life and the sustenance of emotions.

The rhythms of Xintianyou are mostly very free, and the melodies are unrestrained, open, exciting, and soul-stirring. This is directly related to the landforms of northern Shaanxi that are full of ravines. 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 make their voices very long, thus forming a free and evacuation rhythm between high and low lengths. This habit will naturally It had an influence on Xintianyou, so Xintianyou's tunes are melodious and high-pitched, rough and unrestrained, with harmonious rhythm, and reveal the beauty of health without modification.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia—Xintianyou