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Definition of Folk Songs:
Broadly speaking, folk songs refer to songs with a national style, and narrowly speaking, they refer to national folk songs. Folk songs are widely circulated in the folk generations of songs, is the most popular form of music, is the public oral creation, and in the circulation of the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the continuous enrichment, with very distinctive national characteristics and local color. China has a long history, a vast area, a large population and many nationalities, so folk songs have a long history and are as vast as the sea. The musical language of folk songs is concise and concise, the musical images are vivid and colorful, and the expression methods are colorful and colorful, which is an important part of China's national folk music treasury. Because of the vastness of our country, many ethnic groups, various ethnic groups in various regions of the sea of folk songs, each with its own characteristics, according to statistics, around the collection of folk songs, the number of more than three hundred thousand in total.
Classification of folk songs:
Contemporary music is generally common according to genre: labor horn, mountain songs. Minor tunes.
Famous Chinese folk songs:
Xinjiang: Xinjiang is good, beautiful girl (Kazakh) Youth Dance (*** Er) Send me a rose (*** Er) Carriage Driver's Love (*** Er) Song of the Four Seasons (Qinghai) Alamu Khan (*** Er), Dudar and Maria (Kazakh), under the silvery moonlight (Tatak) Lovely a rose,
Hubei: Dragon Boat Song, Digging Mud Loach
Hunan: Four Seasons Song, Liuyang River, Pick Betel Nut
Shanxi: Wuguo Sheep Herding, Embroidered Lotus Bags, Lantern Festival
Shaanxi and Gansu: Shandandandan Blossoms, New Year's Day in the first month of the lunar year, New Year's Rice-planting Songs, Thirty Mile Pave, Scraping the Wind, Orchid Blossoms, Wanting to Kiss Kiss, Catching Adults,
Taiwan: snails and orioles, selling dumplings, Taiwan Island, a bird, the sky is dark, the girl in Alishan
Sichuan: picking flowers, the sun comes out joyful, Sichuan River boatmen trumpet, Kangding love song, know do not know, the pair of flowers, the rainbow sister
Qinghai: in the faraway place,
Jiangsu: Meng Jiangnu, jasmine
Jiangsu: Meng Jiangnu, jasmine
Jiangxi: the first year of the New Year, the first year of the Chinese New Year, the first year of the Chinese New Year, the second year of the Chinese New Year, the third year of the Chinese New Year, the third year of the Chinese New Year.
Jiangxi: Crossing the Hengpai with Mountain Songs, August Laurel Blossoms, Ten Sent to the Red Army, Turtle Doves
Liaoning: Little New Year's Day, Five Nights on the Crescent Moon
Guangxi: There is a Carp Rock in Liuzhou
Yunnan: A River Runs Through It
Mongolians: Gadameirin, Pastoral, Mongolian Serenade, Little Oriole Bird, Sengjidemar, Oroqen Chant
Hebei: Cabbage, Kite Flying, Cattle Herding, Jasmine, Returning to My Mother's Home,
Shandong: Yimeng Mountain Ditty,
Jiangsu: Jasmine, Plucked Reed Flower
Anhui: Fengyang Flower Drums, Fengyang Flower Drums
Hunan: One Stretcher and Two Buckets, One Bamboo Pole Easily Bent
Tibetans: Song of Wine, The Day of the 15th of the First Month
Guangdong: Falling Water Days, Rising River Sand Wave Sand
Guizhou: Jasmine Flowers
Yi: Jumping Moon Song
Yunnan: Rain does not sprinkle flowers do not red, guessing the tune, horse-raising song
Korean: Daolaji
Hubei: Dragon Boat Song, urging to rush
Famous Foreign Folk Songs
The Valley of the Red River, the Spring of the Northern Country, the Song of the Four Seasons, Solo River, the stars, El Ghazi, Snowdrops, Volga Boatswain's Song, Katyusha ``
There are many ways to categorize Chinese folk songs. According to the genre, it can be roughly categorized into three main types: the bugle (including the porter's bugle, the boatman's bugle, the workshop bugle, etc.), the mountain song (including the general mountain song, the grazing mountain song, the field rice-planting mountain song, etc.), and the ditty (including the ballad, the tune of the hour, the customary ceremonial song, the dance song, etc.). In some scholars' treatises, folk songs are subdivided into bugles, mountain songs, herding songs, rice-planting songs, boat songs, nursery rhymes, ditties, and custom and ritual songs. The classification of genres helps to recognize and study the relationship between folk songs and people's lives, the social function of folk songs, and the method of musical expression, characteristics and other issues.
Classification by national and regional style color. There are 56 ethnic groups in China, and due to the differences in their historical traditions, language characteristics, and living customs, the styles and colors of folk songs of different ethnic groups are far apart. Some of the larger number of people, living in a wide range of ethnic groups, such as Han, Mongolia, Tibet, Zhuang, *** Er and other ethnic groups, but also according to the musical characteristics of their folk songs in different areas are divided into a number of color areas. For example, Han folk songs can be roughly divided into Northwest China, North China, Northeast China, Southwest China, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan, Hunan and Hubei, and Jianghuai 8 color areas, of which the first 3 areas of the northern part of the slice, the 4th to 6th is the southern part of the slice, the 7th, 8th is the transition between the north and south. There are also the southern piece and the transition area is divided into Yun Gui Qian, Sichuan, Xiang E, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan and other four regions. There are different ways of division, each with its own basis.
Style and color classification helps to understand and study the style and color of folk songs, the relationship between music and folklore and other issues. Classification according to the subject matter helps to recognize and study the relationship between the content and form of folk songs and other issues. In addition, there are also categorized according to the period of historical development, or special classification for the need of a particular topic.