地处鄂西山区的长阳县,素有歌乡之称。无产阶级文化大革命给了长阳山歌以新的生命。长阳县委为了更好地推动群众改革旧山歌、大唱新山歌的活动,决定在各公社和大队成立山歌活动领导小组。县、公社和大队举办了山歌学习班、赛歌会,培养了一大批能写会唱的新、老歌手。一个群众性的革命山歌活动蓬勃开展起来了。 Changyang County is located in the western mountainous area, known as the songtown. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution gave Changyang a new life. Changyang County in order to better promote the masses to reform the old folk songs, singing new folk songs, decided to set up in various communes and brigades leading group of folk songs. Counties, communes and brigades organized folk songs classes and song contests and trained a large number of new and old singers who could write and sing. A mass revolutionary folk song activity flourished.