Research on the Origin and Artistic Characteristics of Hebei Local Song-Dance

“Cowherd and Country Girl” is one kind of local operas in our country. It comes from the region of Hebei and belongs to Chinese folk opera. Because of its catchy and easy to read aloud features and ingenious use of “metaphor and comparison” rhetoric, this work has been widely spread among the Han Chinese, and has become a folk song-dance opera that has been sung to this day. Song-dance drama is a kind of “Hebei Clapper Opera” which spreads far and wide in northern China. Its origin and artistic characteristics are worthy of our study and recognition.