According to the relevant literature of Baidu Library, Yao dance is a orchestral music, which was composed by composer Mao Yuan in 1950s. This music is a trilogy, written in national style, with an A-B-A structure. Yao dance music highlights the timbre and performance of national musical instruments, makes good use of different timbre combinations of the same group of musical instruments, and expresses the life of Yao people who can sing and dance with beautiful melody.

After the creation of the song, the ballad Guo wrote lyrics, Cai Kexiang wrote lyrics version of Yaoshan Night Song, and the Beijing Youth Choir sang. It is the earliest choir that can be traced back to the present, so it can be judged as the original singer. Yao Dance Music was selected as the experimental textbook of compulsory education curriculum standard published by People's Music Publishing House, which had a great influence.