Flower epidemic areas in Ningxia: Northwest, Haiyuan County, Zhongwei, Ningxia, famous for flowers, which can be divided into "full flowers" and "scattered flowers". The "whole flower" is mainly long, and the "scattered flower" is free in form and can be improvised. Features: Compared with the flowers in Yinchuan, Haiyuan flowers sing louder and more passionately, sometimes with a loud voice and sometimes euphemistic and delicate, which is one of the art forms that the Hui people love to see. Spend a whole long story and tell you a touching story. Free to scatter flowers and change freely, from time to time to show the versatile wit of the singer. Two people sing in pairs, you sing and I'll pick it up. You say a word and I say a paragraph, and the wonderful docking is repeated constantly, which often fascinates the audience. People who sing flowers are called "men's flowers" or "men's teenagers" The origin of "Hua 'er" is also called "juvenile", which is a folk song circulating in Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and Xinjiang Hui areas. It's actually a high-pitched folk song. In the duet of "Hua 'er", the man called the woman "Hua 'er" and the woman called the man "teenager", which gradually became the name of Hui folk songs, also collectively referred to as "Hua 'er". The origin of "Hua 'er" originated in the Ming Dynasty, and there are different opinions about its origin. Some people say that it is a special folk song formed under the influence of Mongolian and Tibetan folk songs; Some people think that it evolved from the homesickness songs of Hui people who moved in from other places. Some people think this is a folk song, but the immigrants who moved from Nanking to Zhou Tao in the early Ming Dynasty often use flowers as a metaphor. In a word, "Hua 'er" has become a major art form sung by Hui people in modern times. The classification of flowers in Hua 'er is divided into Qinghai Hua 'er, Hezhou Hua 'er and Ningxia Hua 'er by singing, and its source is Hezhou (now Linxia, Gansu). Flower is rich in content, mostly love songs, but it also shows the life of the Hui people. Generally, it is four or six sentences. The lyrics are improvisational and colloquial, and slang and common words are not avoided. The outstanding features of "Hua 'er" are vivid metaphors, beautiful words and strict rules. It has more than 65,438+0,000 melodies, rhythms and singing styles. As "Flower" was first produced in Shan Ye, and singers sang freely in an open and beautiful environment, its tune was loud and bold, rough and melodious, which showed the pursuit and desire of the Hui people for a happy life and pure love. In Linxia, where the Hui people live in compact communities, people have gathered in the beautiful mountainous areas to hold the traditional "Flower Festival" at a fixed time every year for hundreds of years. The "Flower Show" in Lianhua Mountain and the "Flower Show" in Songmingyan on April 28th of the lunar calendar are famous for a long time. At the turn of spring and summer, the trees are lush and the flowers are blooming. At that time, singers will gather together to listen to songs, which is unprecedented. Flowers are popular in a wide range, with many tunes and genres. There are more than 30 kinds of flower cavities in Ningxia. Take Linxia as an example. There are flowers in Hezhou and flowers in Lianhua Mountain. The two tribes are divided into Beixiang flower, Nanxiang flower, Dongxiang flower, Baoan flower and Salar flower. The basic format of Ningxia Huaer is four sentences per sentence, the first two sentences are more interested, and the last two sentences are the subject. Single and double sentences have the same structure, each sentence has four pauses, but there is only one word at the end. There are three pauses in each sentence, and the last sentence must be two words. Every year in June and July of the lunar calendar, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xindu will hold a grand flower show, which attracts flower lovers all over the world. There are nearly 10 large-scale flower fairs in Ningxia, among which Lianhuashan Flower Fair and Songmingyan Flower Fair are the most famous. The development is not very good, but many Ningxia rock bands use flower elements, such as Suyang band, Buyi Band and Hao Feier.