Bamboo clapper song, also known as five-sentence clapper song, belongs to Hakka folk art. It is the earliest and most popular art variety in Xingning City. It is popular in Meizhou City and Hakka cities and counties in Heyuan, Shaoguan and other regions. Bamboo clapper song is good at narrative, and it can be divided into short, medium and long pieces. Bamboo clapper song rap includes four aspects: lyrics, tunes, performance props and performance forms. Each lyric consists of five sentences, each with seven words, and the first, second, fourth and fifth rhymes. It is customary to use the tail-rebuttal rhyme, and is mostly used for singing story transmission. It has its own unique tune, and gradually formed basic singing styles such as flat board, crying board, happy board, drag board and hanging tune in the process of spreading, which can be fast or slow or high or low, all of which are flexibly used by rap artists. The performance props are four bamboo boards (each bamboo board is about 1 inch wide and 6 inches long, and one of the bamboo boards has a saw-shaped edge). The performers beat the bamboo boards as the accompaniment beat. The performance form has developed from a single person to a double person and multiple people, and from solo to duet, group singing, performance singing, and playing singing. The birthplace of bamboo clapper songs is Xingning, and it has been popular for more than 200 years. According to Huang Zunxian, a famous poet from Meizhou in the late Qing Dynasty, in his article "Mountain Songs", "There are also beggar songs, clapping along the door, which is unique to Xingning people", which is enough to show that bamboo clapper songs first emerged in Xingning and were the earliest place to spread in Meizhou. Xingning City is located in the northeast of Guangdong Province, in the upper reaches of Dongjiang River and Hanjiang River. It is connected to Pingyuan County and Meixian County in the east, Fengshun County and Meixian County in the south, Wuhua County and Longchuan County in the west, and Xunwu County in Jiangxi Province in the north. It is a land transportation hub for Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces, and a commodity distribution center in eastern Guangdong. Xingning is a hilly area in northeastern Guangdong, where Hakka people live. Xingning's culture (from language, customs, culture and art, food, folk houses, beliefs to Hakka consciousness) has a strong Hakka local characteristic. Xingning uses Hakka dialects, and the masses like to sing Hakka folk songs. Bamboo clapper songs evolved from four-line "ancient text" bamboo clapper songs. During the Qing Dynasty, four-line "ancient text" bamboo clapper songs were first introduced to Xingning from southern Jiangxi, and gradually transitioned to five-line forms, with the same rhyme as the Xingning dialect. There are some representative inheritors of bamboo clapper songs in Xingning in different eras. In the 1920s, Xingning folk artists founded the "Zhongyi Hall" to train five-line folk rap artists, so that bamboo clapper song singing activities gradually developed. During the Great Revolution, Xingning's revolutionary predecessors used bamboo clapper songs to promote revolutionary principles. During the Anti-Japanese War, Xingning's revolutionary workers used bamboo clapper songs to promote mass anti-Japanese resistance. After liberation, bamboo clapper song rap was further spread, and professional and amateur artists created a variety of performing arts forms, which added color to the art stage and were deeply loved by the masses. After the reform and opening up, bamboo clapper song singing activities became more active. Folk artists and art groups actively created bamboo clapper song programs, went deep into cities and towns to sing widely and performed at various art evenings. Some bamboo clapper song singers also performed in various parts of the province as well as Hong Kong, Macao, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and other places. Xingning's bamboo clapper songs were sung in Guangzhou and Beijing. In 1959, "New and Old Contrasts on the Other Day" participated in the provincial art performance. In 1972, "On the Clothes Drying Ground" won the first prize in the Meixian area art performance and participated in the provincial art performance. In 1976, "Spring Urges the Cuckoo" went to Beijing to participate in the national quyi performance. In 1981, "Zhang Lang Divorces His Wife" won the Excellence Award in the Meixian Mid-Autumn Festival Singing Competition Rap Competition; in 1982, "Bone and Flesh Love" participated in the Meixian folk art performance. In 2003, "Dreams Come True Today" won the bronze medal and special award at the first Guangdong Folk Song Festival. A large number of his singing works were recorded and released as discs.