The genres of folk songs can be divided into three categories: bugles, songs and ditties.
1, horn: (also known as the labor horn) horn with a leader and the singing form, the rhythm of the song and labor rhythm unity, the melody rhythm is fixed, generally sung for the leader of the improvisation, and the liner notes of the form. Horn from the lyrics of the subject matter is divided into agricultural horn, engineering horn, forestry horn, shipwright horn, carrying horn and workshop horn.
2, mountain song:
People in the mountains to cut firewood, field work, field grazing, stopping feet rest, in order to express their inner feelings, or to the distant people to pass the love, the answer to the language of the improvisation of the compilation of the song, sung in the outdoors. It has straightness, simplicity and freedom, with great melodic ups and downs, and mostly adopts the structure of upper and lower phrases, with many pairs of sentences. It can be broadly categorized into mountain-climbing tunes, mountain songs, albatrosses, flower children, Hakka mountain songs, and Fujian, Guangdong and Gan mountain songs.
3, minor:
People's daily life of rest, entertainment, assembly and other occasions to sing folk songs, that is to say, in addition to labor calls, mountain songs, other than a variety of daily singing of small folk songs can be included in this category. Often sung by professional or semi-professional entertainers, they are widely circulated, with even rhythms, rich melodies, and lyrics in short and long phrases.
Expanded:
Ancient Chinese folk songs are a kind of oral creation rich in vitality, and their excellent works have high artistic value, on the contrary, most of the modern Chinese folk songs have low artistic value. In the history of Chinese literature, folk songs are the originators of poetry and literature and one of the sources of writers' creativity. Literary genres such as quatrains, pentameter and heptameter, as well as words and songs, all originated from ancient folk songs and were later adopted by writers.
Chinese folk music is an ancient and evergreen tree in the forest of the world's folk music, and it is the pride of our Chinese descendants. It stands tall in the east of the world with its rich and bright flowers and fruits, its deep and long history and traditions, and its unique and varied colorful styles.