Southern Folk Songs
by, stretching, high and unrestrained. These folk songs are mostly sung in the form of duets, or as soloists. When singing in pairs, because the other party maintains a certain distance, in order to arouse the attention of the other party and stimulate the other party's emotional response, so often start to sing a long introductory accent, and then sing the main content. This kind of folk song is the most distinctive part of the local characteristics of the Yunnan Han folk songs, and there are different styles, and most of them do not have fixed lyrics, mostly improvisational singing, so it is most able to show the singer's artistic talent. Yunnan Han folk songs unique style, melodious, in the country has a greater impact, such as "play the mountain tune", "catching the horse tune", "the river flows", "Maidu Mountain Song", "the river rises Shalangsha" and so on has long been popular.
Yunnan Han folk songs in the ditty can be called the life of the ditty, the number is larger, the content of the subject matter is also more extensive. The source of these folk songs is more complex, not only small Ming, Qing Xiaoqu, but also many Han folk songs from all over the country, most of them have a more fixed traditional lyrics. Their style is relatively less unique than that of Yunnan's mountain songs, but they still have a certain local color. Labor songs include three types. One type is accompanied by specific labor production singing songs; another type is in the collective labor process, to inspire the mood, reduce fatigue, coordinate the role of the action of the labor horn, usually a song of the people, and there is a distinctive labor rhythms and a strong labor atmosphere; and then a type is a form of impromptu singing by full-time singers in the field with the process of labor, singing tunes from the local mountain songs, ditties and become a combination of. Dance songs usually have a distinctive dance rhythm, lantern songs and dances in the tunes are such. Among them, especially "ten big sister" in the country has long enjoyed a good reputation.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Huang Hong, a famous folk singer, has made a great contribution to the introduction and dissemination of Yunnan Han folk songs and the improvement of the art of singing. Her singing of Yunnan folk songs such as "Guess the Tune", "The River Runs Through It", "Embroidered Lotus Bags" and "Playing the Mountain Tune" has won her the praise of the domestic music world. over the past 30 years, she has visited the former Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, the former German Democracy **** and the country, North Korea, Japan, India, Indonesia, Myanmar and other countries along with various art groups, and has painted a significant chapter in the folk music of Yunnan with her superb and unique folk songs. She has drawn a strong stroke for Yunnan folk music.