Folk Ditties generally refers to folk songs and dances popular in towns and cities, and is the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage in China.
The folk ditty, a creation of the working people, is an art form belonging to the people.
So let's come together to understand, where the folk ditty is.
The emergence and development of the ditty has gone through a long period of time. Some of the narrative chapters in the Book of Songs have already nurtured some elements of the ditty. In the Han Dynasty, there appeared a form of singing accompanied by silk and bamboo, which can be regarded as one of the origins of the minor key.
During the Wei, Jin, and North-South Dynasties, the folk songs of the Four Seasons of the Night, the Five Shifts of the Army, and the Moon Festival Willow Folding Songs appeared, from which we can see the principles of the four seasons, the five shifts, and the twelve months of the traditional minstrelsy structure of the later generations. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, more folk songs were selected and refined to become part of the rap and dance performances called quzi, which was also an early form of the minstrel genre.
After the Song and Yuan dynasties, along with the growing prosperity of China's cities and towns, the minstrelsy entered a mature stage of comprehensive development. On the one hand, many folk songs and tunes introduced into the cities from the countryside were sung and processed by artists and became part of the ditties; on the other hand, the small orders and loose sets that emerged in the Yuan Dynasty gradually parted company with the strict North-South tunes in the process of spreading to meet the needs of the citizen class and became a kind of popular and easy-to-understand, smooth and graceful ditties that still retained the names of the tunes, and this part of the ditties merged into the ditties to make them more colorful and diverse. This part of the Xiaoqu is merged into Xiaojiao to make it more colorful.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, a trend of compiling albums of folk songs and lyrics arose among some of the literati and scholars, and some of the more influential ones were "Nishang Renewal", "White Snow Remains", "Fashionable Northern and Southern Minor Songs", "Cantonese Style", "Cantonese Acura", etc.
The Minor Songs are a kind of popular, easy-to-understand, smooth, beautiful, and still retaining the name of the songboards, which made them more colorful.
The distribution of ditties is quite wide, almost all over most of the Han areas in China. In the Han Chinese folk, there are many common names for ditties, such as Xiaoqu, Slang, Lane Ballad, Village Square Ditties, Municipal Ditties, Popular Songs, Time Tune, Silk Tune, Silk String Ditties, etc. Ditties is a generic term that has been used in the recent past. Here are a few examples.
Anhui ditty:
Anhui ditty is the grassroots in northern Anhui, Henan, northern Jiangsu, southwestern Shandong and other areas of the Han folk ditty circulated for a long time. The content of these ditties is based on rural trivia, synthesizing various art forms such as opera, song, instrumental music and dance, and is very popular among farmers.
Most of these folk ditties are recorded by local literary classes and burned onto CDs for sale in the countryside. The content is divided into two kinds of elegant and vulgar, vulgar to Jianglong class as a representative, elegant to Liu Xiaoyan as a representative. The humor and wit of the lyrics are very popular, and the performances are pure and simple, creating a new style of folk art.
Shandong Zhaoyuan, Laiwu ditties:
Shandong Zhaoyuan ditties is the people of the region, in the working life of the gradual formation of a form of folk art expression with local characteristics, the content is rich and colorful, from the ordinary people of the people's food and drink to the daily work of the miners to push the mill; from the young men and women in love to the old age of the oldest mutual affection; from the curse on the feudal system to the hope for a better life, and so on. From the curse of the feudal system to the hope for a better life, and so on, there is a lot to talk about.
Laiwu ditty, in the art of more processing, has a balanced structure, rhythmic regularity, delicate tunes and other characteristics. According to the different contents, the ditty can be divided into four categories: lyrical songs, witty songs, children's songs and custom songs. One of the most representative of the "twelve accompanied by sending", "embroidered lanterns" and so on.
Conclusion: folk ditty, long history, wide distribution. Through it, happiness, anger, sadness and joy in the humming between, and not subject to the limitations of the stage, fields, courtyards and alleys, open mouth, and both young and old, very dissemination function, is the people's leisure and entertainment, labor rest a form of regulating the physical performance.