"Hakka Mountain Songs have spread far and wide, singing out the long love, singing out the heart of the groom, singing out the heart of the sister". Hakka mountain song is one of the famous folk songs in China, and it is a bright pearl in the treasure trove of art in the motherland. It inherits the style of the 300 Psalms of the Book of Psalms, which has been passed down from generation to generation, with distinctive themes and local characteristics, rich in the atmosphere of local life; its unique artistic style, easy to understand the language, vivid and evocative, smooth and natural, literary connotation, intriguing.
The Hakka songs are sung in Hakka dialect, basically four lines of seven fonts, the first, second, fourth line rhymes; often touching the scene when singing, singing on the spot, and with the mouth, deep feelings; singing colorful, free rhythm and rich in change, the same Hakka songs and the same with the different, such as Meicheng Mountain Song, Songkou Mountain Song, Shima Mountain Song, the cadence of the different cadences, only in Meizhou, there are more than 100 kinds of cadences, but they are all tunes of the high pitch, loud and clear, lyrical, and the same with the different. The songs are very melodious, loud and clear, lyrical and melodious; the singing art inherits the traditional techniques of fugue than Xing, and commonly used narrative, metaphor, pun, after the break, hyperbole, superimposed words and other techniques; the types and genres of mountain songs, love songs, lyrical songs, tail barge tail, virtual Xuan song, song, guessing the tune, etc.; the form of singing has a solo, duet, performance singing, and so on.
For thousands of years, the Hakka people have used it to sing about their labor life, express their feelings and inspire them to fight, and use it to communicate their feelings, contact friendships, and entertain the body and mind, such as: "Singing the mountain song tightly opens the heart tightly, and the well water tightly beats tightly to sing to the green mountains, and sing to the lotus flower blooms." However, the old feudalism when singing mountain songs layer by layer prohibited, only in the mountains and forests in the fields, from the 50's onwards only to the development of large public singing, singing to Beijing and overseas.
Meizhou is the center of Hakka settlement, Hakka songs are popular, known as the "hometown of songs", fed many famous singers, the first day of Liu Sanmei, Diao Sister-in-law, etc., modern Yu Yaonan, Tang Mingzhe, Chen Xianying and so on. "The East Church has a singing platform, and singers from all over the world show off their talents. Mountain songs are better than the water of the Meijiang River, with a far-reaching and long-flowing source." In order to promote Hakka culture, Meizhou every Mid-Autumn Festival held Mountain Song Festival, the big fight mountain song ring, very lively.