Characteristics and Style of Yunnan Minor

Yunnan Han folk songs can be classified into four categories: folk songs, minor songs, labor songs and dance songs.

Minor mostly appears in the form of segmented songs, and a song contains multiple paragraphs, often appearing in the form of four seasons, five tables and twelve o'clock. , there are many detailed statements. In order to meet the needs of multi-paragraph words, its tunes express some emotions (or soft, or sad, or cheerful) in a concise way, with strong melody, smooth melody, twists and turns, rich and varied melody lines and strong expressive force.

Basic information

The emergence and development of minor has gone through a long period of time, and some narrative chapters in The Book of Songs have given birth to some factors of this genre. The harmony song in Han dynasty is a form of singing accompanied by silk and bamboo, which is obviously different from the songs of other disciples (oratorios and the like), and it can be said that harmony song is one of the sources of minor.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, folk Yuefu folk songs appeared in the form of time series, such as Four Seasons Songs at Midnight and Willow-breaking Songs in Mid-Autumn Festival, from which we can see several traditional minor songs that have been handed down to later generations, such as Four Seasons Songs, Wugeng and December.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, more folk songs were selected and refined, which became a part of rap, song and dance performances, called tunes, and also an early form of minor genre.