Qingyang, called Longdong in ancient times, has a long and splendid history and culture. In the 5,000-year history of civilization in China, Qingyang culture has occupied an important historical position for a long time, and it is colorful in the northwest and the heart of China. In particular, Qingyang shadow play, paper-cutting, long embroidery, long Dong Dong love and folk songs are called Qingyang's "Five Musts". Among them, Qingyang folk songs are the most representative, which is an artistic form that vividly reflects the life of working people in the yellow land. Qingyang folk songs, as an important link of Qingyang cultural inheritance and a bright business card of Qingyang cultural development, play an important role in the inheritance and development of modern Qingyang culture and have far-reaching significance.

Qingyang folk songs have a long history. During the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, Qingyang produced poems praising social life. Especially as early as the Northern Song Dynasty was developed by Zhou ancestors, there were many folk songs sung, among which seven folk songs, such as Qi Feng July, Daya Gongliu, Xiaoya and Feng Qidong Mountain, were included in China's first collection of poems or expressed the sufferings of working people.

In the long river of history, Longdong folk songs emerge one after another. However, there are few Longdong folk songs handed down in ancient times, and most of them are works from the end of 19 to the 1950s. During this period, the fierce social changes in China promoted the rapid development of Longdong folk songs, showing a prosperous scene. Especially in the late 1920s, Longdong Mountain became an old revolutionary base area, and Longdong folk songs also turned the most brilliant page. Thousands of red ballads are not only widely circulated among the local people, but also become folk songs circulating all over China, and are still widely sung today. For example, our leader Mao Zedong, Ten Embroidered Gold Pieces (Embroidered Gold Pieces), Ten Singing Border Areas (mass production of military and civilian) and so on. Many writers also use the materials in Qingyang folk songs to refine and process many excellent literary works. For example, Li Ji's long poem Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang is based on a romantic trip in He Qiao and Qiaochuan, Huachi County.

Qingyang folk songs include minor, belief in heaven, wine songs, labor songs and other forms, including solo, duet, lead singer, chorus, rap and other different forms of expression.

Qingyang also has folk songs that are sung as folk songs with different contents and forms of expression, or along with music, sometimes singing and dancing, making folk songs more flexible and changeable.