Representative Works of Meizhou Hakka Mountain Songs

Lyrical songs, there are also many songs that lament all kinds of bitterness, all kinds of love, and repentance, indignation, and glorification of the world, such as: "God faints and gas disperses to go to the Logic Field", "Boat is really a bitter chirp", "hand holding the dry heart of the tandem is shocked", "to be a human maidservant is really bitter", "to be a daughter-in-law is really difficult", "waiting for Lang Dame old mile", "widowed sister sad day", "persuade Lang Dien over the Pan", "ten send Lang", Ten Husbands to Look Forward", "Don't Dare to Visit the Flower for a Long Time", "Swear Not to Enter the Gambling Grounds", "Being Annoyed by Eating Opium", "Filial Piety to Masters and Mothers in Their Lives", "Lighting a Fire and Burning the Scripture of the 100th Century", "Money is Saved", "Cigarette Sold in the Anti-smoking Bureau", "The Eight Words of the Yamen", "All the World is Unfair", etc. The "Family Song" narrates a love story. It also includes love stories such as "Kissing Songs and Getting Sick" and "The Spring Breeze Blows Away the Lotus", songs about exemplary heroes such as "The Fragrance of the Ancient World", "The Army Commander Buys Chickens" and "The Golden Phoenix Flies Out of the High Mountains", as well as local folktales adapted from the novels of "Liao Kunyu", "Talented Sung Xiang", "The Mandarin Ducks and the Birds", and "The Mouths of Li Wengu".

Narrative Songs

Narrative songs have plots, characters and stories, and are generally longer in length, some of which are biographies. Narrative songs have a wide range of subjects, including "Long Hair Song" reflecting historical events, "Kissing Songs for Sick Sisters" and "Spring Breeze Blowing Away Lotus" recounting love stories, "Wangu Liuxiang", "Army Chief Buying Chickens" and "Golden Phoenix Flying out of the High Mountain" glorifying heroes and exemplary figures, and "Liao Kunyu", "Talented Sung Xiang", "Mandarin Ducks Bird" and "Li Wengu Kissing Mouths" adapted from local folktales.

Custom Songs

Meizhou Hakka songs include various custom songs based on local customs, habits, geography, and products: labor songs, songs for inviting the gods, songs for choosing animals, songs for the seasons, songs for festivals, songs for marriages, songs for congratulations, songs for funerals, songs for festivals, songs for feasts and wine banquets, songs for waterways, songs for names of places, songs for plowing cows, songs for famous produce, songs for food, songs for names of traditional Chinese medicines, and so on.

The Tail Pieces

The Tail Pieces are a unique form of Hakka songs in Meizhou. Generally, the last line of the previous song is used as the first line of the next song, which is not only in the sense but also in the rhyme. Can also be changed, the first line or only sing three words as a line, or take the meaning of the rhyme, or take the rhyme to change the meaning of the singer's flexible grasp. The "tail to tail" must be more than one song, and is commonly used in duets.

Man: about the end of the singing nephew on the come, let go of the throat to play HeHaoHi, wait for the end of the small student first with board, a sister DanJiao good on stage.

Female: A sister's role is good to go on stage, but I can't help it that the sister has no talent, and yesterday I ate fried rice with oil, and I couldn't sing with a numb voice.

Man: I can't sing, I can't get up the ladder, I can't get up the strings, I can't get up the flute, I can't get up the flute, I can't get up the flute.

Women: I told you to play the flute like this, but you can't get any fat from the tea oil. The most important thing is that you have to be able to play the song from your mouth, and you have to be able to play the song from your stomach.

Man: Your mountain song is in your belly, your silk shirt is not in the composting box, your old wine is not composted into vinegar, and your mountain song is not sung in your voice.

Female: You do not go out of tune nephews also know, end today to ask you, the magic of the Zhuge Liang, the Jiangshan kind of loss of mileage?

Showing off

"Showing off" is characterized by "showing off", showing off, showing off. The "show off song" is performed between two or more people through "show off" to elevate themselves and overwhelm each other, and is often used for ring fights and stage performances. For example:

You do not claim to be the king of the mountain song, the end of the mountain song is better than you, three pounds of ginger and hemp bubble bowl of water, have not tasted Saeki spicy soup.

You said your song is beautiful, but now I can't see what you've done, you're just like the hemp bamboo and cambium, can you win the cymbals and knives in all kinds of fights?

The cymbals are so strong that I don't have to worry. I am a big stone in the center of the river, and I have seen a lot of floating water, and I have crashed into a lot of new boats.

You do not worry about the end of the worry, hat wear top end of the head, the iron boat specializing in fighting the wind and waves, steel knife specializing in cutting hard bones.

Sixth, Xuanxuan song

"Xuanxuan song" is also called "tune Xuanxuan". Generally five lines for a song, can be sung by themselves, can also be sung in pairs, mostly in the form of "tail to tail". The difference between it and other songs lies in the "false Xuan": the lyrics are fictional, impossible and absurd, and it is a kind of entertaining song full of fun, which was originally sung by the clowns in the puppet show, and later developed into a form of singing songs. For example:

End of a virtual mystery over fresh, belly big to this into ten years, yesterday Asr to raise a Ang ah child, this day went to buy yellow cigarettes, Xiaotong bosses to speak of the price.

They are not the only ones, but they are the only ones who can buy a piggy bank in the city, and they are the only ones who can buy a bullock in the city.

They are the most beautiful of all, they are the most beautiful of all, they are the most beautiful of all, they are the most beautiful of all, they are the most beautiful of all, they are the most beautiful of all, they are the most beautiful of all, they are the most beautiful of all, they are the most beautiful of all, they are the most beautiful of all.

They are the most important thing that you can do to make your life easier, and the most important thing that you can do to make your life easier is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing.

Guess the mountain song

"Guess the mountain song", also known as "guess the tune", is a specialized riddle game song, between two people or two groups of people, one side asked, one side answered, by the puppet theater clown singing developed. Some of the song a guess, some a two-guess, four-guess. For example:

What is born to carry a shrimp? What's a big car? What's the reason for this? What's the best way to get the most out of your life?

The plantain is born with shrimps and prawns on its back, the grape is born with a big cart, the peach is born with skin and bones stretched out, and the lychee is born with skin and bones stretched out.

What is like a street? The street is a little watery when it rains, and flooded when it dries.

The waterwheel is long like a street, and the keel rotates to make a guess, so there is a bit of water when it rains, and water floods the street in times of drought.

Songs for the removal of characters

Songs for the removal of characters are songs for the removal of Chinese characters, and it is preferable to remove them in a way that is "relevant to the character and its meaning". The best way to do this is to make the characters look good and vivid, in accordance with the font structure of the characters, and the meaning and content of the characters. There are many ways to dismantle characters, such as assembling method, adding strokes, pictogram method, guessing method (riddle), etc.; there are one song to dismantle, one sentence to dismantle, and two sentences to dismantle. Split the word mountain song can take the word on the spot, that is, split that sing, hit the mood hit the scene, the exit into a song, the original mostly for beggars, monks and nuns, artists used. Now, the ring fighting songs, stage performances, singing and honorarium is also common. Such as:

And the word is written to mouth plus Wo, singing songs to people and, family and can be all things happy, the country and more than the song of the world.

One character is written as a dragon, Zhao Zilong, a single horse, two characters are written across the river, a man of letters and a man of arms in the court.

What is the word for the two men who are so powerful that they can fight their way through the sky? The first thing I want to do is to get the money to pay for it. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. The four words break up the circle.

The word "husband" is used to describe a man who has to fight his way through the sky, the word "wife" is used to describe a woman who has to plow half a hill, the word "x" is used to describe a man who has to add two dots to the head of the king, and the word "heavy" is used to describe a man who has to fight his way through the sky, the husband and wife who have a strong sense of honor and respect for each other.

Stacked Character Mountain Song

"Stacked Character Mountain Song" is the main word modification technique of stacking characters, repeatedly overlapping the word word, the sentence has stacked, a sentence of several stacked, throughout the whole piece. There are also overlapping phrases, similar to the overlapping panels of opera, and the structure is still four sentences and seven characters. For example:

The old clothes and old quilts are composted in the old house, the old boxes and old cabinets are put in the old valley, the old tea and old wine talk about the old love, and the old husband and old wife enjoy the old happiness.

The new scythe is sharpened and polished,

The old sister is good at labor and production, writing and arithmetic, playing and singing, and she is good at all kinds of work.

The old sister is not good at marrying a woman who walks on the crossroads and walks with her feet, who is good at food and lazy, who is good at flowers and falsehoods and who is good at cheating, who is good at dalangdang, and who is good at calculating.

The old sister wants to be married to an old woman who is good at burnt ashes and charcoal, who is good at war, who is hardworking, hard-working and thrifty, who can calculate and calculate. The honest Wu Wu Chih Chih backpack on the sunshine up pine light water-saving Zhuo down will be popped away a laborer!

Pulling over the song

"Pulling over the song" is also called "moving over the song", is deliberately to get things upside down, deliberately speak the opposite of the upside down song. For example:

Pulling over the song to pull over the song, pulling over the pocket stool to pull over the seat, driving ducks up the mountain to eat leaves, driving sheep into the water to find snails.

This year is indeed a strange one, the yellow pear on the tree, the grasshopper came to fight with the chicken, the rat dared to bang the cat's beard.

They sang a song of "La Flip", the stone mill blew the wind down the river, the ancient wells were filled with birds, and the bamboo tails were used for fishing.

There are a lot of weird things going on in this day and age, and the mute people come out and sing songs, and the blind people see that they can't see, and the deaf people hear that they can't hear, and they're laughing.