Banquet song, also known as "family song", is one of the Hui folk songs. Banquet song is a kind of tune sung by Muslims in northwest China at wedding banquets and other festive occasions, especially in Linxia, Gansu, Minhe, Hualong and Ningxia. When some young Hui people hold weddings, they will invite some famous singers to congratulate and entertain in advance.
There are solos, duets and chorus, one after another, which adds to the festive atmosphere of the wedding. Banquet song is a traditional folk singing art mainly popular in Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang. Banquet music is pure Hui music, widely spread in Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia and other provinces. In 2008, Qinghai Hui's "Banquet Song" was successfully declared as a national intangible cultural heritage.
Folklore:
In areas where Han people live together, Hui people also dance Han folk dances, such as "Drum Stilts" in Shenyang, Liaoning, and "Hui Flower Drum" in Songpan, Sichuan.
"Banquet song" originated from festive activities: it is a folk song sung between festive banquets. Later, under the improvisation of folk artists, some tracks gradually developed into folk songs and dances of Hui, Salar, Dongxiang, Baoan and other ethnic groups, and were widely spread in Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Xinjiang and other places with the name of "feast song".