storytelling in northern Shaanxi is a folk rap art in northern Shaanxi, which is deeply loved by local people in northern Shaanxi. The performance places of storytelling in northern Shaanxi are generally simple, such as fields and courtyards. The audience can be several people, dozens of people, or more than a hundred people. Before liberation, storytelling in northern Shaanxi was a means for the blind to survive. Through storytelling to support their families, storytelling in northern Shaanxi became a typical blind culture. Storytelling artists embrace the three-stringed or northern Shaanxi music pipa, with their feet tied with wooden boards and their fingers playing with their feet. While talking, they sing and rap, with a hundred voices and tones, and the melody is sometimes high and bold, and sometimes low and crying. The content of rap is generally fairy tales, folklore, historical romance, outlaw heroes, talented people and beautiful women, etc. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, storytelling was a patent for the blind, which was patiently taught by the master and carefully memorized by the disciples, and continued from generation to generation. These storytellers are generally blind and illiterate, so this folk art is constantly developing in a very narrow circle of blind people.
In today's northern Shaanxi, storytelling, a folk rap art, has become a necessary program for people to hold temple fairs, worship ancestors, get married, move, celebrate birthdays, make a full moon or celebrate the New Year. Storytelling artists are no longer limited to the blind, and many contemporary storytellers have normal eyesight. In recent years, there have been many new forms of stage performances, which have developed and changed from the number of performers to the content of performances.