What Hunan local folk songs are there?

In Hunan Province, hills and land are widely distributed, and folk songs are widely distributed. The local people divide Hunan folk songs into three types: high-pitched, flat-pitched and low-pitched. High-pitched folk songs have high pitch and free rhythm, and there are often "ah-woo" in the drawl, which are mostly sung by adult men in falsetto. Pingqiang folk songs are long and long, and most of them are sung by adult men in the wild. Low-pitched folk songs are beautiful, soft, rhythmic and low in volume, and are mostly sung indoors by women.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Hunan was under the jurisdiction of Chu State, and folk customs believed in ghosts and loved sacrifices. When offering sacrifices, there must be songs and music to entertain the gods. From Qu Yuan's Songs of Chu, which is based on the folk songs in this area, we can get a glimpse of the style and features of folk music at that time. Songs of the South is full of romanticism and bold imagination, pursuit and sustenance. Hunan folk songs, which have been handed down to this day, are still the continuation of romantic writing style.

Hunan folk songs not only have beautiful and moving lyrics, but also have fresh and refined tunes, which are unique.

Hunan folk songs can express all kinds of emotions. Hunyuan folk songs are loud and clear, with beautiful lyrical tunes, cheerful lanterns, low and sad music, magnificent labor trumpets, stirring grass and gongs and drums, and passionate revolutionary songs. Their music forms are rigorous and diverse, especially the use of interlining words, which makes folk songs set off the atmosphere and reveal the inner feelings of the characters.