Shandong folk tunes have been passed down through the generations, and have undergone more artistic processing, with a balanced structure, rhythmic regularity, delicate tunes, soft and other characteristics. There are a lot of folk names, such as Xiaoqu, Slang, Lane Ballad, Village Square Xiaoqu, Municipal Small Order, Common Song, Time Tune, Silk Tune, Silk String Small Singing and so on.
Most of the folk tunes are in the form of sectional songs, a song of many words, often using the four seasons, five shifts, twelve hours, and other chronological body, multi-faceted, more detailed statement of the content. Some of them have been circulated throughout the country, and some of them have been circulated in certain areas. Generally, the tunes are more fluent and the structure is more organized. The lyrics are more stable because they are taught by artists and spread by singing books, and the format is diverse and full of changes. The form of long and short sentences is more common, and the structure of non-coupled three-sentence and five-sentence sentences, as well as the repetition of multi-paragraph words, is also more common.
The distribution of ditties is quite wide, almost throughout most of the Han areas in China. Among them, Shandong and Hebei in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and Jiangsu in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are more representative in terms of quantity and variety.