There have been human activities in Leting County since the Neolithic Age. Human production activities and social life need to express their emotions, and Leting folk songs have been produced since then. In the Ming Dynasty, a large number of immigrants from Shanxi and other places came to Leting County, bringing their local traditional music. According to historical records, the "Yanchun" activity carried out by Leting people in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was a kind of folk song singing activity while walking, and the singing of Yangko in Leting Yangko activities started from the "Yanchun" activity. After the Qing Dynasty, folk songs became more popular. An Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy and Lyrics records: "In the early Qing Dynasty, people in Leting City who enjoyed themselves loved to sing "Qingping Songs". At the same time, folk songs such as Sanqu were also popular in the countryside. In addition to improvising folk songs during work and life, some literati began to revise and compile Leting folk songs. From ancient times to the early days of liberation, the main entertainment activity in Leting's rural areas was singing folk songs. During the People's Revolutionary War, using folk song tunes to compose revolutionary songs became a major form of propaganda to mobilize the people. Leting folk songs are diverse in form, and can be roughly divided into four categories: Qingping Songs, Lotus Falls, Calls, and Hawking Tunes. There are many forms of singing, including solo, duet, chorus, and performance singing. Because there are many immigrants from Shanxi in Leting County, influenced by the Shanxi Errentai, Leting folk songs There are many duet folk songs and performative folk songs, which further enrich the expressiveness of Leting folk songs. The main venues for Leting folk songs are courtyards, fields, beaches, and entertainment venues for festivals. The performance content is mostly about love between men and women, family life, labor production, neighborhood relations, festivals and celebrations, myths and stories, worshiping gods and Buddhas, praising loyal ministers and righteous men, attacking feudal ethics, promoting revolutionary wars and joining the army, praising socialist construction and reform and opening up, etc. In the long-term development process of folk songs, it is no longer a simple folk song singing, but has gradually formed a folk activity. Many folk songs are passed on by word of mouth among the masses. During every festival, there are still elderly people singing folk songs in the countryside. They gather together and sing duets to welcome the arrival of the festival and add to the festive atmosphere, such as "Song of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms". , "Moon Viewing on the Luan River", etc. are all festive folk songs that the elderly like to hum. The duet lotus flower that Cheng Zhaocai and others once sang in Leting is still popular among the people, especially among the middle-aged and elderly. It has become an indispensable cultural life. Some middle-aged and young people are also constantly learning to sing duet folk songs. Folk songs such as "锔大缸", "高高山上", and "瑞雪照城" are still active in the yangko fields in urban and rural areas of Leting in the form of yangko singing, allowing Leting folk songs to be passed on. With a history of more than 4,000 years, Leting folk songs have the following characteristics: 1. The content reflects the characteristics of the local people's production and life as well as the characteristics of the natural landscape; 2. The style is calm, elegant, natural, fresh and fluent; 3. The melody has strong characteristics of Leting voice; 4. The lyrics have the characteristics of the local people's common spoken language; 5. Most folk songs show the characteristics of the pentatonic scale. In terms of musical singing, Leting folk songs have a direct impact on the creation of Leting drums, Leting shadow puppets, and Pingju operas. The basis of these art forms is Leting folk songs. Leting drums originated from Leting folk songs-Qingping songs; Leting shadow puppets originated from Leting folk songs-crying tunes, hawking tunes, and temple music; Pingju opera was originally called Lianhualuo, which originated from Leting folk songs-Lianhualuo. The trumpet tunes of early Leting Yangko mainly originated from Leting folk songs. After the improvement and innovation of suona artists, the suona tunes commonly used in the Yangko field were formed. The formation of the Leting Yangko grand scene originated from Leting folk songs-Yanchun. The basic form of Leting Yangko double performance originated from the performance form of Leting folk song Lianhualuo. Leting Yangko is a folk activity, and Leting folk songs occupy an important position in the formation of Leting Yangko, which naturally directly and indirectly formed a folk activity. Source: Tangshan Municipal People's Government (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) Source: Tangshan Municipal People's Government (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)