Folk songs and ballads are self-entertainment, cultural heritage or catharsis of life produced by the working people in their labor and life practices. Jixi folk songs and ballads are folk rap art created, chanted, passed down orally and memorized by the people of Jixi. Jixi is a long-standing county with a profound historical and cultural heritage. Jixi has always valued culture and religion, and folk sacrificial activities and festivals are extremely active. In addition, Hui Opera, the source of Peking Opera, also originated here. The good cultural atmosphere has created the Jixi people's hardworking, intelligent, passionate, and good at singing and dancing. While creating material civilization, people also create spiritual civilization. Cultural forms such as folk songs and ballads have emerged and developed with the progress of society. Folk songs and ballads are a kind of grassroots treasure that is difficult to be accepted by the public. They are completely passed down orally from generation to generation, and there are few written records. Therefore, it is difficult to verify when they originated, and it is difficult to systematically collect early works. There are still many recent works in the world. During the Anti-Japanese War and the War of Liberation, the guerrillas renovated and created revolutionary folk songs based on the local folk songs popular among the military and civilians. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the county cultural department collected and sorted them out many times. At the end of 1956, "Picking Mulberries" participated in the provincial folk music and dance performance and won an award, and the song was included in the "Anhui Folk Song Collection". After 1979, the collection of folk songs was particularly abundant, and there were also many creations. In 1984, the county cultural center organized forces to collect a total of 40 revolutionary folk songs popular in the guerrilla areas of the county before liberation and folk songs that had been passed down from generation to generation, and compiled them into the "Jixi Folk Song Collection" as a tribute to the 35th anniversary of the National Day. In 2005, the "Folk Songs of China" column of the CCTV Music Channel recorded and broadcast 7 folk songs including "A Lamp on the Mountain When the Moon Rises", "Sending the Man", "Huolang Tune", "Visiting the Sister", "Four Seasons Song", "Silkworms Going Up the Mountain", and "Farmer", and 3 of them were included in the book "Folk Songs of China" published by CCTV. Folk songs are oral folk culture, and it is difficult to see text, so many folk songs scattered among the people can only survive on their own. Recently, Fang Jing, deputy director of Jixi County, collected and compiled "Huizhou Folk Songs", which collected 237 folk songs from all over Huizhou, most of which came from Jixi. Its publication provides original materials for the study of oral culture in the history of Jixi and Huizhou, and is a unique artistic treasure in the profound Huizhou cultural treasure house.