Xiping folk songs are traditional folk songs of Xiping Town, Xixia County, Nanyang City. Xiping Town is located in the hinterland of Funiu Mountain in western Henan Province, at the junction of Henan, Shaanxi and Hubei. The unique geographical and living environment has created a rich local folk song, which has lasted for hundreds of years and is an extremely precious cultural heritage among the existing traditional folk music in Henan Province. Xiping folk songs are rich in content and unique in personality. They have a variety of singing forms such as solo, duet, multi-person singing, and chorus singing, with or without instrumental accompaniment, which is rare in the Central Plains. What is more valuable is that the local area has always maintained a system of inheritance from generation to generation and participation by the public, and strengthened protection and research, which has a very high cultural value for promoting traditional folk art. On June 7, 2008, the "Xiping Folk Songs" applied by Xixia County, Henan Province were approved by the State Council to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Heritage serial number: 579-80. Xiping folk songs originated in the Han Dynasty and have continued for nearly two thousand years, showing strong vitality. It is the main content of more than 50 kinds of folk art in Xiping, such as "Colorful Cloud Dance", "Picking Tea and Catching Butterflies", "Flower Sedan", "Stilts", "Roller", "Crane Clam Dance", and "Bamboo Horse". Folk singers use these traditional ethnic folk art forms to go from village to village, singing about life, love, and history. They inherit history and culture, science and life, labor and experience, and enrich people's spiritual and cultural life. Under the shade of trees, by the stove, at temple fairs and other occasions where people gather, Xiping folk song lovers will sing loudly. Folk songs have become the most important form of cultural activities in major festivals, traditional festivals and daily life in our town. Today, with rich and colorful cultural and artistic forms, Xiping folk songs still have a strong influence and attraction in our town and even in the border areas of Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi within a hundred kilometers. [2] According to research, folk songs were already sung among the traditional people in Xiping during the Han Dynasty, and became popular in the Tang Dynasty. The custom of "Tang generals" working together (that is, changing work teams) has existed in the deep mountainous area for a long time. Legend has it that after Li Yuan founded the Tang Dynasty, he was afraid that the meritorious soldiers would become arrogant and rebel, so he left them in the deep mountains of western Henan and eastern Shaanxi to open up wasteland and cultivate land. Their lives were monotonous and boring. They sang, played riddles, and shouted labor songs while working to relieve fatigue and relieve depression. By the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the drought in Wanxi caused a sparse population. Six immigrants from the 1 big locust tree met with immigrants from Anhui, Hubei and other Jiangnan areas in Xiping. Various cultures interbred and collided. People who left their homes expressed their joys, sorrows, anger and happiness in life through folk songs, which promoted the great prosperity and development of Xiping folk songs. Therefore, the traditional art of folk songs developed and passed down on this ancient land of Xiping.