Miao duet

Miao folk songs are divided into labor songs, love songs, folk songs, story songs, literacy songs, riddle songs and so on. Labor songs are usually sung in the fields or mountains when firewood and grazing are used. The main content is to impart production knowledge, exchange technology and express good wishes. Love songs include traditional love songs and social duets between young men and women. By singing love songs, young men and women can get to know each other and become partners. The main contents include meeting, heart-to-heart, lovesickness, courtship and praise. Folk songs, including Song Liang, crying wedding songs, wedding songs, stepping on the door songs, funeral songs, Camellia songs, drinking songs and so on. Most of them are sung at festive festivals and weddings. The content is mainly to make a fortune. Literacy songs focus on literacy, and illiterate people can know some words by singing. Story songs are composed according to legendary stories and then sung. Riddle songs are mainly riddles. Singing can increase knowledge and enlighten wisdom.

The language of Miao folk songs is simple and natural, with vivid metaphors, especially the songs of Miao young men and women are full of interest:

Man: I met my sister today, like a fairy;

My sister is lovely and beautiful. I begged her not to complain about receiving songs.

Female: I met my brother at the scene today, and I was very happy to meet my brother and sister.

You came with love, and I am interested. Only when you are interested can you pick up the song.

Miao people have the habit of not getting married with the same surname. Therefore, men and women with the same surname do not sing courtship love songs. They must ask their surnames before singing courtship songs.

Single bitterness comes from single bitterness, and no one can make up for the broken clothes;

There are no hot dishes in the pot, no shoes to wear and bare feet.

Clever Miao boys use songs to talk about their loneliness, with a sad tone, hoping to get sympathy and friendship from girls. This Miao girl never expresses her ideas easily. She must find out the truth before deciding whether she really loves this man. She asked the man with a song:

Female: Jinshan Yinshan Wanbao Mountain, every family has an orchard;

People's orchards are full of fruit, why do you still pay for them?

Man: I wanted to stay with my sister for a long time, just because it is difficult to get close across the river;

Today, we should meet each other in a hurry and get to know each other in singing.

How clever the clever Miao girl asked and how clever the witty young man answered! In this way, she sang a song and he answered it, asking and answering, and the song was like a spring. This is not only to express their love for each other, but also to bring their hearts closer by singing.

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