The National Intangible Cultural Heritage of Hua'er is

Flower Child is a folk song of northwestern China and a masterpiece of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

Flower Child was produced in the early Ming Dynasty, around 1368 A.D. It is a folk song that has been circulated among the Han, Hui, Tibetan, Dongxiang, Baoan, and Meng ethnic groups***created***and enjoyed in the provinces of Gan, Qing, and Ning in northwestern China. It is named after the metaphor of women as flowers in the lyrics. It is sung in Chinese and musically influenced by the traditional music of the Qiang, Tibetan, Han, Tu and Muslim peoples.

The structure of the flower is divided into two sections, with the first section being a metaphor and the second section being the thematic content of the song. The tune has a strong lyricism and is sung in Linxia dialect with a strong local flavor.

"Flowers" lyrics and tunes are divided into two categories: "Hezhou Flowers" and "Lotus Mountain Flowers."

In 2007, it was selected as a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity. In December 2018, the Ministry of Education recognized Lanzhou University's Northwest "flower children" inheritance base as the first batch of national general colleges and universities Chinese outstanding traditional culture inheritance base.

Flower children's current situation

"Flower children" has a broad mass base in the local community, but with the impact and penetration of the economic tide and modern civilization, the primitive and simple "flowers" are facing a shrinking space for survival. The survival space is facing shrinkage.

"Hua'er" is practiced from the farmland and the mountains, and some people who sing well are called "Hua'er handlers", and they are all familiar with the tunes after years of labor and following the adults during the herding period, so that they can improvise their own lyrics to sing or lead the singing.

Nowadays, the Chinese people are not able to sing in the same way.

Now the most conducive to the growth of flowers in the idyllic pastoral style of rural life has been gradually broken, many young men and girls have not satisfied with the original way of life, have left home to find opportunities to earn money and new dreams of life, and therefore the real love of the "flowers" and can make an effort to sing the singing handle will not be seen.