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What does ballad mean?

One of the genres of folklore. It is also a general term for folk songs, ballads and children's songs, nursery rhymes.

One of the genres of folklore. Also known as folk songs, ballads and children's songs, nursery rhymes in general. Songs are usually made up mostly for children, and sometimes in some of the theme of the local customs Songs

Events, singing the characteristics of their own ethnicity. The difference between a ballad and a song is that a ballad mainly rhymes, and often expresses some interesting trivia, or sometimes a profound truth, but they are short and rhyming, and rarely very long. There are many kinds of ballads, including bitter songs, love songs, pan songs, custom songs, festival songs, nursery rhymes and so on; according to the form, there are happy, western, plus, than the theory and so on. Meishan ballads of various types and forms are also many, mountain songs, love songs, Nuo songs, trumpets have their own characteristics. Henan current political ballads are rich in traditional characteristics: First, dare to point the spear to the supreme ruler, openly reveal the shortness of the emperor and the queen, the ugly, the bad, the poison; Second, on the eunuchs, relatives, treacherous ministers to hold the dynasty, the scourge of the phenomenon of disaster and disaster to the people of the abhorrence, bold condemnation; Third, the praises of the clean officials and incorruptible officials are always from the bottom of their hearts from the heart to praise, revealing incomparable love and affection; Fourth, full of realism, politics, and the struggle, strong feelings, love and hatred, vivid and graphic language, and the language is very vivid. Love and hatred are clear, the language is vivid, short and powerful. Rhymes

Labor Songs

The hardships of labor are poured out in fishing songs, field songs, and mountain songs, which can be heard from time to time. Fishing songs are unique in that most of them are wordless trumpets sung by Qu Yuan

Hi Luohao, Oh Luohao, Yi Aiha, which play a coordinating and energizing role in labor. Fishing songs have long horn, short horn, pulling pontoon, playing water, anchor, shake jerk and so on.

Love ballads

This kind of ballads in Yueqing a lot, quite popular among the masses, the reason why the appearance, flavor characteristics have been preserved to this day Confucius

. Love ballads express the subtle emotions between men and women in Yueqing, and are a way of telling the quest for love.

The ballad of current affairs

The basic understanding and attitude towards the current affairs and situation in social life carries the real emotions of the people.