Types of Folk Songs of Buyi Music

The filial piety songs popularized in Wangmu Taoyi are the most representative. The song is sung by a group of people, accompanied by cymbals. Dancing and singing around the coffin, the atmosphere is solemn.

The second native-speaking area is located in the center of Guizhou, where economic and cultural development is comparatively high, and there are more exchanges with the Han Chinese, whose folk songs are generally divided into two types: the "Ming Songs" sung in Chinese, and the "Tu Songs" sung in the Buyi language. There are also two kinds of folk songs sung in both languages: the "clip-reed songs" and the "Gulu Mountain Songs" and the "Jieba Songs". There are two types of songs: short songs and long songs. The short songs have 4, 6 or 8 lines and are mostly modern new words; the long songs have dozens or even hundreds of lines and are ancient songs with contents such as the opening up of the sky and the earth, the history of the nation, and heaven's reason and human feelings, which are used to educate the future generations. The Gulu Mountain Songs are named after the liner notes in the songs. The short and intensive rhythms, the witty and vivid liner notes, and the light and lively tunes give the songs a very distinctive character. The Buyei in this region live in small clusters among the Han Chinese, and their folk songs have been greatly influenced by the Han Chinese. In addition to the large number of songs sung in Chinese, many of the Buyei folk songs show the influence of the Han Chinese mountain songs in their tunes, modes, and structures.

The Buyei folk songs in the 3rd native language area have two main characteristics: first, due to the intermingling of the ethnic groups, the Miao and the Han, the Buyei folk songs have obvious traces of the influence of the music of these ethnic groups; secondly, due to the dispersion of the Buyei, the living customs of the villages, the tones and styles of the folk songs have obvious differences. For example, the Biantan Mountain Song popular in Zhenning County has nothing **** in common with the folk songs of other Buyi villages. The re is the dominant sound, the upper and lower fourths and fifths in the melody, and the combination of words and songs show its unique character. Weining Buyi folk songs are y influenced by local folk songs, especially in the use of liner notes and phrases.