Who is the inheritor of "Shaanxi rap"?

Shou Yi Erqiang is from Yulin in northern Shaanxi.

Wearing a sheep's belly scarf and a sheepskin waistcoat, Erqiang, a "shou artist" from Yulin in northern Shaanxi, holds a three-stringed string instrument and sits in a cave dwelling singing Xintianyou.

The rough singing voice and delicate expression impressed the netizens on the other side of the screen.

In just one year, the total number of likes on Erqiang’s videos has reached nearly 4 million.

Zhang Gatang from Gansu is committed to collecting northwest folk songs. He plays traditional folk songs with guitar or electroacoustic instruments and uploads them to short video platforms. Tens of thousands of users use this as background music for secondary creation.

On major live broadcast platforms and music websites, there are more and more people like Erqiang and Zhang Gacian who are keen on singing hometown folk songs. Traditional folk songs that were once far away from the public eye have become "hot" and are full of vitality through new media.

Erqiang, who became a monk halfway through, became well known as a storyteller in northern Shaanxi on Kuaishou.

However, he did not become an artist from an early age, but became a monk halfway through.

In 2010, 25-year-old Erqiang left his hometown to do business in Shanxi.

After working for a few years, he had his own brewery and his life was getting better and better.

In 2015, by chance, he saw a shamisen in a musical instrument store.

Erqiang said that apart from his hometown, shamisen is rare in other places, so he was really surprised to see it here.

So he bought the balalaika, even though it was a little damaged.

Holding the shamisen, memories of my childhood flooded into my mind.

He bought a piano at noon and played the complete melody in the evening.

Perhaps it was the longing for his hometown that was secretly causing trouble, or maybe the three-stringed harp aroused his childhood enthusiasm. Erqiang seemed to be fascinated and embarked on the road of storytelling.

However, despite his enthusiasm, Erqiang is still an amateur at storytelling.

So he decided to learn from his master.