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Shaanxi is aprovince of China that has a long history offolk music.[1] The Shaanxi Music and Dance Troupe has toured across the world; there is also a Shaanxi Provincial Song and Dance Ensemble that performs historical music from theTang dynasty.
Qinqiang is the most well-known opera style from Shaanxi, said to date back to theQin emperor during the Tang dynasty. Folk dances from Shaanxi include the tichangzi, Ansai waist drum dance and the grand yangko.[2]
Shaanxi's folk songs include "Lan Huahua" (Blue Flower), and come in more than twenty styles, including most commonly xiaodiao andxintianyou (short, improvised pastoral songs).[3] A folk singer from the province, He Yutang, was discovered Li Yarong, also a singer and sculptor and journalist; Yarong made amusic video around one of Yutang's songs, and the result won second place in the Music Video Awards.Wang Xiangrong is the most widely known singer of Shaanxi folk music.
More recently, modernChinese rock emerged from theNorthwest Wind style folk song of Shaanxi.
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