What are the artistic features of Han music and folk songs?

A high combination of poetry and music.

From the perspective of poetry, folk songs are close to life, with distinct themes, vivid images and sincere feelings. Folk lyrics are short and easy to understand, belonging to folk style; General sentence patterns are neat, rhyming and even; Seven sentences are the most, and there are other sentence patterns. Structurally, two sentences and four sentences are the most. The author of this folk song used metaphor, analogy, contrast, exaggeration and narration in just a few lyrics, which made the theme of the song clearly and prominently reflected.

For example, in songs such as "Farmers' Complaints" and "Long-term Labor Tune", bitter vegetables are used to describe the bad karma of marrying a girl far away from home, and yellow in cabbage fields is used to describe the rich and the poor. When Sophora japonica blooms, it only takes four sentences to show the theme of love.

Second, he is good at expressing people's inner world.

Express deep thoughts and feelings with the short structure, concise musical language and extremely economical musical materials of folk songs. Suiyuan folk song "Horse Racing on the Frontier" deeply expresses the homesickness of the wanderer; "Going West" expresses the sadness and attachment between relatives who have left their hometown, and the place where you are going.

The third is oral, collective, impromptu and changeable.

Folk songs are the crystallization of collective wisdom of the masses. Generation after generation, different singers in different periods and regions often improvise and sing whatever they want based on ready-made folk songs. This is improvisation in folk song creation and singing. When improvising lyrics, the tunes of folk songs will inevitably change to varying degrees. Therefore, there are many variants of folk songs, such as Meng Jiangnv, Hua Diao and Cut Indigo Flowers. All over the country. There are also several typical tunes and characteristic tones in a certain area.