What does Qinqiang mean?

Interpretation:On the dusty edge of the 800-mile-long Qin River, 3,500 old Shaanxi men sing Qinqiang loudly. It reflects the straightforward, generous and righteous character of the people of Shaanxi and Gansu, as well as their simplicity, honesty, diligence and courage.

Source:Ten Strange Songs of Shaanxi

This is a Shaanxi folk song with no specific author's source.

Originally:Eight hundred miles of Qin River are dusty, and thirty million Qin people roar the Qin opera. The bowl of bearded noodles is full of joy, without a pinch of spices to mutter.

Translation:Eight hundred miles of Qin River are covered with dust, and thirty-five million old men of Shaanxi Province are singing folk songs at the top of their voices. He carries a bowl of bearded noodles in a joyful manner, and he mumbles without putting spices in the noodles.

Traditional culture in northern Shaanxi folk songs

Yu Qiuyu, a renowned cultural scholar, said, "Even if a northern Shaanxi man walks around the world in rags, he will be seen as a person with a big cultural background."

In northern Shaanxi, people's joy, anger, sadness and happiness can be expressed in the form of folk songs. Whether standing in the "coiled dragon and crouching dragon mountain tops", or walking in the "ninety-nine bends" on the banks of the Yellow River, or marching in the "a horse and flat river lookout do not see people" on the soil plains, can be heard floating in the breeze of the leisurely You can hear the melodious songs floating in the wind, which is the northern Shaanxi folk songs.

Shaanxi folk song is in accordance with their own life and customs, in the cultivation of land, grazing, drinking, festivals, building, birthday, wedding, funeral, temple and other life scenes, see things, touch the scene, improvise and sing out, Shaanxi folk song because of the oral singing and popularity, rely on the collective creation and prosperity.

The spirit of traditional Chinese culture and northern Shaanxi folk songs is of great significance to the construction of a strong socialist culture and the enhancement of national cultural self-confidence.