Yangtze River Haozi is a local folk song in Yichang City, Hubei Province. It is a song that is circulated in the Xiling Gorge area of the Yangtze River Three Gorges, where there are many rapids and rapids. It is also a dock song and a porter song that is circulated during loading and unloading and mooring. Yangtze River Haozi is the most distinctive and representative type of local folk song in Hubei Province. It was created by boatmen in the test of the limits of life and is a life movement created by collective labor. It has a strong local folk customs and rural flavor. There are 126 existing Yangtze River Haozi, including lifting cabins, leaving cabins, issuing signatures, stepping on flower bags, lifting large items, pulling lead wires, going up the gangplank, flat roads, going uphill, going downhill, rocking a car and counting. The gorge horn is widely circulated in the gorge. [1] As a local folk music, Yangtze River Haozi is sung to the rhythm of labor. It is high-pitched, deep, majestic, and powerful, with a sonorous rhythm. It is performed by one person leading the others, shouting, whistling, and covering. The music melody is integrated with the content, the tone is combined with the language tone, the singing is free, and the rhythm and speed depend on the specific work. Most of them are "melody", but there are also "melody of rhyme", which is unique to the ancient style of Zhengyu music. The music shows the prominent characteristics of strong sense of strength and rhythm, magnificent, with vigorous and melodious calls, as well as lyrical folk songs. The structure is mostly a joint song, but there are also single songs, which are free to express and flexible. It has unique cultural and artistic value and research value in music history, psychology, etc., as well as reasonable development and exploitable value. Artistic influence The Yangtze River Gorge call is the result of the struggle and harmonious coexistence between man and nature. It has become the most cohesive and iconic cultural symbol of the people in this region, with a continuous sense of identity. It is a spiritual and cultural heritage that people constantly recreate in adapting to the surrounding environment and interacting with nature and history. Art status Due to changes in transportation and labor methods, and the construction of dams to store water in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River Gorge call disappeared as wooden boats were gradually discontinued in the gorge.