Folk songs are folk songs in which working people can express their feelings freely. The most common content in traditional folk songs is love and suffering. Folk songs are often sung outdoors, with loud tunes, free and long rhythms and impromptu lyrics. The lyrics of folk songs have the characteristics of simple emotion, bold imagination and clever metaphor, which are vivid and touching. Influenced by history, natural environment, customs, pronunciation and other factors, Yuanling folk songs have formed three color areas in style.
Folk songs are mainly distributed in plateau, inland, rural areas, fishing villages and ethnic minority areas, and prevail in ethnic minority areas such as Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan. It is widely distributed and rich in reserves. Folk songs are one of the basic genres of China folk songs. Generally speaking, it refers to folk songs with free rhythm and long melody that spread in plateau, mountainous area and hilly area, and people entertain themselves when walking, cutting firewood, grazing and mowing grass.
Classification of folk songs
From the subject matter content, it can be divided into three categories. One is a love song. Love songs occupy a considerable proportion in folk songs. As the saying goes, "no lang, no sister and no song", Yuanling love songs are sincere. Whether it is direct confession or reserve, you can always see the childlike heart between men and women. For example, "sing a folk song to test my sister's heart": "When I see the shade of flowers on the other side of the river, I want to pick flowers because I am afraid of the water depth. Throw a stone to test the depth and sing a folk song to test my sister's heart."
The second is life. This kind of folk songs involve a wide range of subjects, some reflecting the working life of the times, some singing ploughing and hoeing, and some singing spring, summer, autumn and winter; There are feelings about life, singing about life and singing about the world. For example, "folk songs are difficult to sing, and good trees are difficult to plant; It is difficult to make a delicious rice field, but it is difficult to open a delicious carp net. " "If you can't sing, don't be charming. If you can't cut, don't move your knife. "If you can't row, don't go into the water. A rotten boat won't float in the water." "There are green balls on the tung tree, and sisters don't hold grudges when quarreling; Only brothers are old, how can sisters be old? "
The third is current politics. This kind of folk songs mainly express a feeling and attitude towards society. A considerable number of folk songs in each period directly expressed the working people's views and understanding of social politics. For example, "when you are a soldier, you must be a Red Army, and you will not be poor if you win the revolution;" Those who can work have jobs and those who can farm have fields "was the yearning and longing of the working people for the revolution at that time, and it was the support and love for the revolutionary ranks." "Since the new era, the times have given folk songs new connotations, with healthier content, deeper connotation and more positive spirit.