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Types of Tibetan folk songs
From the point of view of structure and expression, Tibetan folk songs can be divided into two categories: "Lu" and "Harmony". The "Lu" folk songs are divided into two categories, namely, "Lalu" (mountain songs) and "Zhuolu" (pastoral songs). Generally, the number of lines in "Lu style" folk songs varies, with three, five or six lines, with equal syllables in each line, and a stable program is formed by the correspondence between paragraphs and lines, and between lines and lines. Harmonized folk songs are more varied, and are mainly popular in the upper reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, and in the Tibetan areas east of Chamdo, such as "Kang Harmonized" and "Ba Harmonized" (also known as Batang Harmonized Folk Songs). "(also known as the Batang stringed instrument). From the content and form of points, there are special in the ritual ceremonies sung on the chant "harmonic Qing", about the labor song "Le Harmony", and circle dance "fruit harmony", arrow song There are also circle dances, "Goho," arrow songs, and so on. "Generally, each song has four lines, sometimes six, but all of them are even. Each sentence of six syllables, divided into three pause, each pause two syllables.
Characteristics of Tibetan Folk Songs
The Tibetan people are known for their ability to sing and dance, especially during grand festivals, when the Tibetan people become a sea of song and dance. Tibetan folk songs have a wide range of tones, long and moving tunes, and rich and varied contents, which are mainly divided into labor folk songs and life folk songs. The labor folk songs mainly praise the hard work of the people and the fruits of their labor, reminding people not to forget their hard work. Life folk songs are mainly about love, friendship and other beautiful feelings between people. Related to the regional characteristics and customs of life, Tibetan folk songs are full of emotion, so that people listen to as in the vast grassland, so that people's hearts are open, have a sense of joy.
The development of Tibetan folk songs
Before the appearance of Tibetan writing, folk songs were widely circulated among the Tibetan people as an oral form. After the emergence of the Tibetan language, the progress and development of folk songs were further promoted. Gradually, folk songs were accompanied by beautiful lyrics and recorded in written form, enabling them to be passed on from generation to generation. Since then, after the liberation of Tibet in 1951 and many other changes, folk songs have developed a new, enthusiastic content and style reflecting the new era, which is commonly known as the new Tibetan folk songs to distinguish them from the traditional Tibetan folk songs. The new folk songs are mainly odes, which use vivid language to praise the new life of the Tibetan people, giving people positive and inspiring power.
Tibetan folk songs, with their unique art form, show the different flavor of Tibet.
Representative works of Tibetan folk songs
The development of Tibetan folk songs has left many popular works. For example, Tsetan Drolma's "On the Golden Mountain of Beijing", the Tibetan folk song "Magical Jiuzhai" and so on.
There are also some Han Chinese and singers imitated the characteristics of Tibetan folk songs to create some songs, such as "shopping in the new city", "Tibetan Plateau" and so on. Tibetan folk songs gradually incorporated popular elements of other ethnic groups, breaking through the ethnic boundaries to the whole country at a faster speed.