Artistic characteristics of Xinyang folk songs

Xinyang folk songs can be roughly divided into more than ten kinds, such as revolutionary historical love songs, folk songs, new folk songs, chant, folk songs, Tian Ge, water songs, lantern songs, peddling, minor songs, children's songs, current political songs, sacrificial songs and narrative songs. They profoundly and vividly show the life, thoughts, feelings, will and wishes of Xinyang people, reflect the social practice of Xinyang in different regions and times, and are the crystallization of Xinyang people's collective wisdom. Although it has been tempered, it is still innovating.

When Xinyang folk dance was investigated in 1980s, there were more than 80 kinds of dances, 120 kinds of performances, more than 400 kinds of traditional programs, and more than 3,350 performance clubs, accounting for more than13 of Henan Dance Performance Clubs.

1In May, 1984, Henan TV Station filmed a music feature film "Journey to the Home" (the first and second episodes) with Xinyang folk songs as the main body, which was broadcast on CCTV in June of the same year, and again in our international radio program1/years later. There are 224 Xinyang folk songs in China Folk Songs Integration Henan Volume. Famous Xinyang folk songs include Osmanthus fragrans Blooming everywhere in August, Sending Lang to the Red Army, Sending a sedan chair to the door, and Song of Car Water.

1989, Henan TV station filmed the TV art film "Love in Dabie Mountain" with Xinyang folk songs and dances as its content, which was broadcast on CCTV for many times. Xinyang's famous folk dances include flower picking, flower fan, flower umbrella, fire Zi Ling, lion dance, spring bull dance, bamboo horse dance, dry boat, dragon lantern and so on. The pentatonic scale is dominant in Xinyang folk songs. The complete chromatic scale has not yet been discovered. In a few folk songs, such as "Through the Heart" and "Selling firewood", these pentatonic steps are short-lived, and most of them appear on the weak beat or as the past tense, which is only used as a decoration and foil for prayer to a great extent. The basic framework of its melody has not lost the essence and characteristics of pentatonic steps.