Walking West is a local folk song in Shanxi. It is said that it has been circulating for one or two hundred years. This song can be sung not only by Shanxi people, but also by many people in neighboring Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi and even Ningxia, Qinghai and Gansu. There's an old saying in China called "different sounds in ten miles", which says that folk songs have strong regional characteristics.

The reason why people in many places in the northwest can sing "Walking to the West" is probably because many Shanxi people have been to these places at that time. Some people have been singing this song for a long time and the locals have learned it. In 1970s, Zhu Fengbo, a famous singer, rearranged this song and sang it all over the north and south, which made this song look brand new, but kept the flavor of the original song.

Song appreciation:

Shanxi Hequ local folk song "Walking West" tells the tragic experience of a newly married couple, where you will go, and the hardships of Shanxi people going out to make a living in modern times. There are profound social, historical, natural and geographical reasons behind it. Going to the west is a challenge to fate and a development of a new environment.

It is difficult to go west, but the industrious and intelligent people have stepped out of a new world, and it is they who have opened the richest city in Shanxi, moderns. The spontaneous westward movement has profoundly changed the development process of Shanxi and Mongolia.