Noodles as wide as belts

Panpakes as big as pan cover

Capsicum as delicious as a dish

Bowls as big as basins

Operas singing as high as roaring

Hanker-chief headdresses

Paomo sells in big bowl

Houses built in half-like

Girls marry locally

Squat on stool

The above Ten Strange has formed the Shaanxi image of honest and loyal, also reflected the unique Shaanxi features. Shaanxi people are bold and unconstrained not only in nature but also in diet culture. The belt-like noodles, cover-like pancakes and oiled capsicums are typical demonstrations. About the house architecture, it is the great result of making best use of the sunshine. The roaring-like opera are due to the special landforms Shaanxi that knaps and dongas abound. Women marry locally, in a large degree, indicates that Shaanxi was a place rich in land, resources and telant.

Ballad & Nursery Rhyme of Guanzhong Area

Xian is one of the birthplaces of the ancient Chinese culture, due to influences from the factors as weather, landform, economy and culture etc. in the aspects of living, eating, or else like that, Shaanxi people have formed its own way of saying, as the famous dialect there. These dialects, the evolutive traces of the ancient Chinese civilization can be seen, also a taste of the real achievement of today could be present to be favorable appreciation. The emotional Shaanxi folk songs and ballads have long been spread widely among common people. As kinds of humorous, satirical, hortative, criticized ones on the social ills and expressions of personal sentiment, all of which based on Shaanxi dialect as carrier, is the concentrated expression of Shaanxi folkways. Folk Songs are colorful, full of swinging scene. In terms of content, mainly fun-filled children’s songs that reflect the era characteristics and personalities, as well as real life, criticized ballads exist. In form, some brief, jocular humor, and some attack on the social ills with extreme words, still some filled with gratitude, enthusiastically eulogize, some are ask and answer correspondingly contrast to the ones confide in low voice. In representation, men, animals, plants and things around are widely adopted to it that lay out the profound social changes.