Sing when you want: The Museum of Folk Songs of Northern Shaanxi allows visitors to experience the "singing of high songs"

Xi'an, 18 Sep (Xinhua) -- "It is easy for us to meet each other, but it is difficult to talk..." In the past, peasants in northern Shaanxi stood on the high slopes of the loess soil and sang high songs, and gentle and high tunes reverberated among the mountains; now, in the Folk Song Museum of Northern Shaanxi in Yuyang District, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, the dome theater, live-action singing, real-life restoration, folk song teaching, and recording production ... The audience can feel the charm of folk songs in northern Shaanxi through the fusion of traditional singing and modern technology.

The Northern Shaanxi Folk Song Museum is a functional music museum integrating collection, display, performance, research and dissemination of northern Shaanxi folk songs, with an exhibition area of about 5680 square meters. It covers 6 exhibition areas, including the traditional northern Shaanxi folk song exhibition area, the revolutionary history of northern Shaanxi folk song exhibition area, the new era northern Shaanxi folk song exhibition area, the northern Shaanxi folk music art exhibition area and research topics.

Walking into the Folk Song Museum, you can first enjoy an immersive folk song performance in the Dome Theater, and while watching the exhibition content, you will occasionally encounter folk artists recruited by the museum from the local area to perform classic folk songs. The museum is equipped with multimedia audio-visual equipment for tourists to order at will, interested audiences can also be in accordance with the music on display live "to a song", the museum also intimately summed up dozens of kinds of scene map of the song, the audience stepped on the song step, with the singer's live singing, the museum instantly became a lively experience performance stage.

Born in 1988, Zhou Lin is now a signed singer of the Northern Shaanxi Folk Song Museum, and has been attracted to rough and bold folk songs since he was a child. After the establishment of the museum, Zhou Lin became a signed singer with his good voice. Every Saturday, the museum also holds public welfare teaching classes for citizens who love folk songs, and Zhou Lin also serves as a training teacher for more than 200 students.

The unique natural environment and geographical features of the Loess Plateau give the folk songs of northern Shaanxi a strong local character of high-pitched and rugged, and in 2008 it was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. "After the museum was built, it was very popular with audiences in northern Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and other places, and many audiences came many times, and some performers were selected from the audience. Since its completion last May, the museum has received more than 140,000 visitors. Xue Xiaohong, director of the Northern Shaanxi Folk Song Museum, said.