Briefly describe the characteristics of folk songs.

The three basic characteristics of folk songs:

1, and the people's social life has the most direct and close connection, the authors of folk songs are the masses of the people, they are in the long-term labor, life practices, in order to express their own lives, express their feelings, express their own will, aspirations and creations, in the past, the working people were deprived of the power to master the culture, illiterate, much less understand the music score. In the past, the working people were deprived of the power to master culture, they could not read or write, and they did not know the music, but they sang their own songs by word of mouth to satisfy the needs of life, such as "Long Worker's Bitterness" and "The Rover's Difficulty", which expressed the sadness and pain of the long-time workers who suffered from the fraudulent oppression and the "Embroidered Lotus Buns", which expressed the young girl's longing for her lover and her scrupulousness towards the happiness of her life. (Ming Feng Menglong) said, "But there are fake poems, no fake songs," the folk songs of the people's thoughts are the most real, the deepest.

2. Folk songs are gradually formed and developed through a wide range of mass improvisation, oral singing, and it is the crystallization of the wisdom of countless people. （It is the crystallization of the wisdom of countless people. (The process of creating folk songs and the process of singing and passing them on are one and the same, improvising during the process of singing and passing them on during the process of compilation.)

3. The musical form of folk songs is characterized by simplicity and simplicity, approachability, and vividness.