Top Ten Folk Songs in Shanxi

The accumulation of 5,000-year civilization of the Chinese nation and the multi-ethnic glory of 56 ethnic groups in China have created numerous traditional folk customs, such as exquisite paper-cuts, loud folk songs, beautiful operas and beautiful yangko, which have been handed down from ancient China to the present and have a long history. Then let Shanxi culture introduce you to folk songs, one of the top ten folk customs in Shanxi selected by netizens.

China's folk songs have a long tradition. In primitive society, our ancestors began to sing in hunting, carrying, offering sacrifices, entertaining gods, offering sacrifices, courtship and other activities. Tang Style and Feng Wei in The Book of Songs, the earliest collection of poems in China, are mostly ancient folk songs produced in Shaanxi.

Historically, folk songs have always had many different names, such as minor, slang, poetry, folk songs, time words and so on. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, folk songs were often used to refer to all kinds of folk songs. However, because folk songs are the songs of working people, working people were looked down upon in feudal society and semi-feudal and semi-colonial old China, and folk songs suffered the same fate. Even in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was repeatedly forbidden by the emperor. There are few written records about its history.

Therefore, it is impossible to reproduce the actual voice of ancient folk songs, and we can only see its lyrics from ancient literary works. As for music score, there is no music score, because folk songs have always been sung orally, even after notation, working people do not need it. It was not until the end of 19 that folklorists recorded several folk songs with Gongchi notation. Collecting, arranging, recording and publishing folk songs in a comprehensive and planned way can only become a reality in New China.