Xinyang folk songs have developed with the changes of history, from simply expressing inner depression to a cry of struggle. As early as the First and Second Civil Revolutionary Wars, the people of our region, under the leadership of the Party, persisted in the revolutionary struggle despite the harsh environment and cruel struggle. In order to publicize and organize the masses, they sang "Long-term Worker Songs" and "Poor People's Songs" to encourage the people to move forward. As the Red Fourth Army continued to grow, the people were full of confidence in the victory of the revolution, and there appeared "Red Flags Planted All Over Dabie Mountains", "1929", "Anti-encirclement and Suppression Songs", "Sending My Husband to Join the Red Army", and "Red Fourth Southward Victory Song". Among them, "Osmanthus Flowers Blooming Everywhere in August" which was sung all over the country was adapted by Wang Wuchu, a cultural worker in Shangcheng County at that time, and sung all over China with the Red Fourth Army. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in the 1950s, the motherland entered a new situation of prosperity and development. The people of our district had three times carried the deep affection of the people of the Soviet area to perform folk songs and dances such as "Flower Picking" where all the flowers compete for blooming, the colorful "Flower Umbrella", the jubilant "Encircled Lantern", the humorous "Harvest Music", the small and exquisite "Three Umbrellas", and the beautiful and melodious folk songs from Xinyang to Beijing, and reported the performance to the Central Committee. They were received and photographed by Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou and Chairman 1. In 1977, a folk song concert was held in Shangcheng County. In 1978, the Provincial Bureau of Culture held a provincial folk song work experience meeting in Xinyang City. The provincial radio station, television station, and the Central People's Broadcasting Station made a special trip to Xinyang to record and broadcast nationwide. From the 1980s to the 1990s, the majority of folk song creators in Xinyang composed a large number of new folk songs, participated in large-scale competitions held by the province and the central government, and won many awards. Many works were broadcast by the International Channel of CCTV, the Provincial Television Station, and the Taiwan Affairs Office. During this period, music and dance workers of faith launched the TV special "Song Hometown Tour" and "Love in Dabie Mountains". It is believed that the folk songs of Xinyang City have a stronger local flavor and are more novel in style under the new situation. Musical characteristics of folk songs in Xinyang area The pentatonic scale occupies a dominant position in the folk songs in Xinyang area. The complete seven-tone scale has not yet been discovered. In a few folk songs such as "Chuanxin Diao" and "Maichai Diao", although there are Qingjiao Biangong sounds, these pentatonic external sounds are short in duration, most of which appear on weak beats, or are used as passing sounds. To a large extent, they are just prayer decorations and foils. The basic skeleton of their melody does not lose the essence and characteristics of the pentatonic scale. From the perspective of mode, the most is the pentatonic Zhengci mode, followed by the Gong mode, Shang mode, and Yu mode. The Jiao mode is only seen in the song "The Moon Comes Out to Shine on the Top of the Building", but this folk song is widely circulated in other provinces. In addition, there are many alternations of modes, and modulation is relatively rare. Regarding the characteristics of the melody, this is a more complicated issue. The Xinyang area is located on the southern edge of Zhongzhou. It borders Hubei and Anhui. This has formed the unique language characteristics of Xinyang area, which has both Hubei charm and Zhongzhou language elements. As a result, the folk song music language in Xinyang area has a style of both hardness and softness. From the perspective of melody lines, folk songs popular in the southern mountainous areas are more likely to repeat the same tone and jump four, five, seven, eight or even ten degrees. The range is wide, the emotions are unrestrained and passionate, fresh and bright, and you can feel the rough and strong characteristics. At the same time, it has created the heroic image of the mountain people who are hardworking, brave, fearless of hardships and dare to fight. Such as "December Dots", "Shi'an He Haozi", "Xia Pan Qi Diao", etc. The folk song melodies in the Huaihe River Basin and the central hilly areas are mostly combined with large fluctuations in the melody line. It is characterized by a steady rhythm, smooth tone, slow speed, beautiful and touching, and exudes a strong local flavor. Sometimes it is exaggerated with interesting words. Make these life tunes more simple, humorous and interesting. Such as "Six Immortals' Song", "Bridal Sedan Arrives at the Door", "Beautiful Mountains and Rivers Are as Beautiful as Paintings", etc. There are also some folk songs that express joyful emotions in the decomposition 1 style. Such as "Grabbing Eight Sentences", "Slowly Driving Cows", "Mr. Zhang Asks for Money for School Fees", etc. From the rhythm beat, there are the following types: general life minor tunes are mostly 2/4 beats; narrative folk songs with elegant style are mostly 4/4 beats; some labor songs or children's songs also have mixed beats of scatter or 5/8. The folk songs in our region are generally short and mostly in one-sentence style. From upper and lower sentences, three sentences to four sentences, five sentences. There are also methods such as phrase expansion and song end expansion according to the needs of the content and emotion, forming a longer heterodox body.