Shanxi folk songs and nursery rhymes

1. Jiaocheng Mountain:

Jiaocheng Mountain is a folk song that began to spread in Wenshui and Jiaocheng in the Qing Dynasty or earlier. After the founding of New China, this song was sung by the famous singer Guo, and it was widely circulated in the whole country. It is a very classic Shanxi folk song.

2. "Go west":

Walking west is a local folk song in Shanxi. It is said that it has been circulating for one or two hundred years. This song can be sung not only by Shanxi people, but also by many people in neighboring Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi and even Ningxia, Qinghai and Gansu.

3. "People say that Shanxi has good scenery":

This is a Shaanxi folk song, composed and written by Zhang and sung by Guo. It is an episode of the film Young People in Our Village, which was created on 1959. Since 1960s, it has become a classic of China folk songs, pushing the creation of Shanxi folk songs to a new height.

4. Under the willow tree:

It is a folk song that spreads in Liulin County, Luliang City, Shanxi Province, and is expressed in the artistic form of playing and singing in Liulin. The charm is natural and simple, and the local flavor is rich and rough.

Second, nursery rhymes:

1. "Chicken, go to the mill"

The penis, on the millstone, scraped a big leather money.

I bought cigarettes, also called salt, for my daughter-in-law to celebrate the New Year.

2. Mom pushes me to swing.

Swing. I like it.

Mom, mom, sit down.

The baby pushes you on the swing.

3. Stars in the sky

Flowers are blooming on the ground.

The stars blink and the flowers smile.

The flowers bent over with laughter.

Extended data

Shanxi folk songs are one of the very old traditional folk arts. Mainly singing historical figures or historical legends. There are more than 100 counties in Shanxi, and almost every county has its own folk songs. According to statistics, more than 20,000 folk songs have been collected. There are many kinds of folk songs in Shanxi, which can be roughly summarized into four categories: first, folk songs; Second, songs; Third, minor; Fourth, divertimento.

Shanxi folk songs vary from place to place, including "folk songs", "flowering tunes" and "rolled seats" (also called "rotten seats"). "Qu Shan" is mainly distributed in the plateau of northwest Shanxi or Xishan (Luliang Mountain) area, among which "Hequ Mountain" is the most prominent. "coloratura" is a popular folk song form in Taihang Mountain area (or Dongshan District).

Most of its contents are in praise of historical figures or legends, among which Zuo Quan's Major, Xingxian's Kunqu Opera and Liulin's Playing and Singing are outstanding. Shanxi folk songs have their own unique artistic style and distinctive local characteristics because of their different geographical environment, economic situation, cultural traditions (especially musical traditions), people's languages, customs and habits, and the influence of neighboring provinces and regions in the province.