Classic mountain songs include: "Mountain Songs Are Better Than Spring River Water", "Baoleng Tune", "Catching Livestock Spirits", "Pastoral Song", "The Beauty of Taihu Lake", "Dragon Boat Tune", "Weaving Flower Baskets", "The Girl from Alishan", "The Blossoming of Shandandandan", "Orchid Blossoms", "Picking Betel Nut", "Knowing or Not Knowing".
Characteristics of Shan Songs:
1. Beats and rhythms are freer (even if the rhythm of the main part of the piece is regular, a shout is often added at the beginning of the piece.
2, the melody proceeds with more ups and downs.
3, more of the upper and lower sentence structure (the South has a part of the five-sentence body).
4, the lyrics often only one or two paragraphs, and more use of couplets.
Categorization of Shan Songs:
1. Shan Songs can be divided into three categories: general Shan Songs, field-planting Shan Songs, and grazing Shan Songs.
2, the general mountain song in China's Han region is widely distributed, such as the northern Shaanxi region of the "letter to the tour", the Qinghai region of the "flowers", Anhui "drive slow cattle" and so on.
3, field rice-planting songs are mainly used in rice-planting, car water and other labor, in order to inspire the mood of the workers, improve the efficiency of the work, by the specialized "rice-planting gangs" in the field sang a kind of mountain song.
4, grazing song is the herdsman for yelling livestock or each other question and answer funny sung by the song, mostly sung by children and teenagers, lively tunes, lyrics vivid, full of interest, often with yelling liner notes.