1. August Laurel Blossoms All Over the Place (Anhui Folk Song)
August Laurel Blossoms All Over the Place is a folk song that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s and has been sung in a number of provinces throughout China, using the tune of "The Eight Duan Jin" to celebrate the founding of the Soviets, and it is a song that sings about the soviets that were set up in August, and was originally called Celebration of the Establishment of the Workers' and Peasants' Democratic Government.
2. Thirty Mile Shop (Shaanbei Folk Song)
Thirty Mile Shop is an excellent Shaanbei love folk song that is widely circulated and popular. It was produced during the Second Civil Revolutionary War, and is based on a real story in northern Shaanxi, sung to the tune of Xin Tian You. It was born in Mantangchuan Township, 30 miles east of Suide County, northern Shaanxi Province, "thirty-mile store", which later took shape as a folk song named "thirty-mile store".
3, Yang Liu Qing (Jiangsu folk song)
Yang Liu Qing is a Yangzhou folk song sung by Qunxing, included in the album "Local Folk Songs - Opera Series The Sun Comes Out Gladly (Chinese Folk Songs for Young People)".
4, Kangding Love Song (Sichuan folk song)
"Kangding Love Song", also known as "Running Horses Slippery Hills", is a representative of the traditional folk songs of the Kangding area of Sichuan Province, arranged by Wu Wenji and Jiang Dingxian, and sung by Yu Yixuan on April 19, 1947, in Nanjing. Since then, "Kangding Love Song" has been circulated throughout the country, and its fame has spread far and wide overseas, being loved by people from all over the world.
5. Liuyang River (Hunan Folk Song)
Liuyang River is a classic Chinese folk song composed in 1951 by Xu Shuhua with lyrics by Zhu Liqi and music by Tang Bikuang. Since its creation, the song has been widely circulated and has been performed in different ways and styles by a number of singers, such as Jiang Dawei, Li Guyi, Song Zuying, etc. Supergirl Zhou Penchang's song "Liuyang River 2008" has given a brand new content to this old song.
Liuyang River, a popular classic folk song, has been sung for many years, and its familiar melody has penetrated the years of several generations. However, few people know that this heirloom song was born as a mere stanza in a Hunan flower-drum opera, and the tune and melody are not the same as what we all know.
Chinese folk songs are the collective oral poetry of the working people. Folk songs, or folk ballads, belong to a form of folk literature that can be sung or chanted, mostly in rhyme.
Chinese folk song is one of the genres of national folk music in China, which is the art of song produced and developed by the people through extensive oral singing in the practice of life.
Based on different ethnic and cultural backgrounds and the different stylistic colors of folk songs, Chinese folk songs can be broadly divided into seven different stylistic color zones.
1. the central plains and the eastern coast with the ancient traditional culture of the Han folk song area;
2. the northern grassland culture folk song area;
3. the west by the influence of the Buddhist culture of the Tibetan folk song area;
4. the southwestern plateau of the multi-ethnic ancient primitive culture folk song area;
5. the northeast by the influence of the shamanism of the hunting culture folk song area;
6. Northwest plateau multi-ethnic semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral culture folk song area;
7. Western Xinjiang folk song area influenced by Islamic culture.
As for the classification of folk songs in each folk song area. Due to the different nationalities, each has its own traditional division, it is impossible to draw a line, only differences.