Xiping Folk Songs
Xiping Folk Songs have many kinds, like mountain songs, working songs, love songs, life songs, children songs, and so on. Among them, working song, love song and life song have tense local color.
Different kinds of Xiping folk songs have various characteristics and can bring people much different feelings. Working song contains working watchword and rammers' work chant, which will cooperate worker's behavior, command their work as well as stimulate their spirit; songs in filed and fisherman's songs depict working scenes and narrate working feelings; craftsman's songs and songs during picking tea-leaf reflect human life and express emotion; love songs are plain, vivid, humorous and full of feelings of picture and image; most of life songs appear in the form of singing in antiphonal style. In Xiping Town, almost every village have people able to sing this folk song.
From 2000, in order to redevelop Xiping folk songs, Xixia county give it saved protection by publishing books, recording voice, making optical disk and other ways, and apply for the Intangible Cultural Heritage. In February, 2007, it was listed in the first Intangible Cultural Heritage Register. In June, 2008, it was listed in the second Intangible Cultural Heritage Register once again.