Xishan folk songs are a traditional music item in the second batch of representative items of municipal intangible cultural heritage. The Xishan area of Nanjing has a long history, and folk songs reflecting local customs and folk sentiments have been circulating for thousands of years. Since the late 1970s, Mr. Xie Fabao, a local, has used the opportunity of returning to his hometown to visit relatives every year to go deep into the fields and the homes of farmers and old mountain singers to collect, organize and annotate more than 257 folk songs, saving and preserving the spiritual wealth that local farmers have sung and passed on for thousands of years, which is facing extinction with the development of social forms and economy. After that, the relevant cultural departments of Nanjing City jointly further excavated and sorted out the folk songs of Xishan. In February 2009, the "Nanjing Xishan Folk Song Collection" was officially published and issued. Together with the newly collected ones in recent years, the number of Xishan folk songs has reached more than 300. In 2009, the Xishan Folk Song Art Troupe was established with 15 folk song singers with an average age of 62 as the backbone, and Mr. Ma Chunlin, a music professor at Nanjing Foreign Languages School, was invited as a consultant to guide and arrange the folk songs of Xishan on the basis of excavation and sorting. Xishan Folk Song Art Troupe pays attention to the training of inheritors and has now attracted more than ten young people to join, injecting fresh blood into Xishan folk songs, rejuvenating them and allowing them to be passed on. Information source: Jiangsu Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center (no pictures yet, welcome to provide.) Information source: Jiangsu Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center (no pictures yet, welcome to provide.)