Legend of Qinghai folk flowers

In Qinghai, there are songs of "flowers" everywhere. The flower child does not mean a kind of flower. The "flower child" is a genre of folk songs in the Hui area of Qinghai, which is widely spread in Qinghai. It has a long history, long history, rich content, diverse forms, beautiful tunes, with rich national characteristics and plateau style, loved by the local people. In the garden of folk songs in China, it is unique, occupies a unique position, and can be called a precious oral literature heritage. Oral literature is oral literature. Flowers are by the folk form of oral literature, is the masses in the life of the indispensable art form, it and other areas of the mountain songs, folk songs, love songs, as well as its agreed rules.

Flower children originated from the love songs of young men and women, and belonged to the most innocent and beautiful part of the folk songs, which were expressed frankly and freely. The most folkloric feature of the singing of "Huaer" is the famous "Huaer Club". Every year in May and June of the lunar calendar, folk spontaneous organization of the "flower will". Participants are as few as a few thousand people, more than a hundred thousand people. Every year, the summer of the plateau is the most beautiful season, when the grass is green, wheat seedlings fat, flowers bloom, the leaves are green. Men, women and children of all ethnic groups dressed in brightly colored national costumes, full of joy, happiness, joyful mood to participate in the "flower will". On the "Flower Festival", there is a sea of people singing and competing with each other, and the "singers" and "song masters" from all over the world improvise and sing one after another, which is so exciting that it goes on all day and night. Songs, laughter, applause, and cheers merge into a sea of joy. The most widely circulated Qinghai folk song is the popular "Flowers and Youth".

Flower is widely circulated in Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang four provinces and regions of the Hui, Han, Tu, Dongxiang, Security, Sala, Tibetan, Yugu and other eight nationalities, and all use the local Chinese dialect, can only be sung outside the village singing varieties of songs, commonly known as the "wild song" (and "family song"), "the feast", "the song", "the feast", "the feast", "the feast", "the feast", "the feast", "the feast" and so on. " that is, "banquet song" relative), also known as "juvenile". Its singing is divided into daily production, life and "flower will" two main occasions. The "flower will" is a large-scale folk songs, also known as "singing mountain". Qinghai folk songs called flowers, in fact, five provinces in the northwest of the circulating folk songs, after the establishment of the province of Qinghai, and gradually these folk songs will be called the Qinghai flowers