Music of Shaanxi

Qinqiang is the most well-known opera style from Shaanxi, said to date back to the Qin emperor during the Tang dynasty.

[2] Shaanxi's folk songs include "Lan Huahua" (Blue Flower), and come in more than twenty styles, including most commonly xiaodiao and xintianyou (short, improvised pastoral songs).

[3] A folk singer from the province, He Yutang, was discovered Li Yarong, also a singer and sculptor and journalist; Yarong made a music video around one of Yutang's songs, and the result won second place in the Music Video Awards.

Wang Xiangrong is the most widely known singer of Shaanxi folk music.

More recently, modern Chinese rock emerged from the Northwest Wind style folk song of Shaanxi.