What are the characteristics of China folk songs?

1 has the most direct and close connection with people's social life. The author of folk songs is the people, and they are created by the people in their long-term labor and life practice in order to express their lives, express their feelings and express their will and wishes.

2. Folk songs are gradually formed and developed through extensive improvisation and oral singing by the masses. They are the crystallization of the wisdom of countless people. (The creation process and singing process of folk songs are integrated, and they are improvised in the singing process and spread in the arrangement process. )

3. The music form of folk songs is simple, approachable and vivid.

Extended data:

Functions of Folk Songs: Education and Inheritance

Among some ethnic minorities in China, there are folk songs that sing long narrative poems and sing epic poems, such as Yi people's? "Mei Ge" and Miao nationality? Ancient Songs and Yao's? Brother Wang Pan, Hani? Song of Creation and Jingpo's? "Mu Nao Zhai Wa", a lone dragon? Genesis and tile? "Wood scraping the base" and so on.

These songs describe ancient myths and legends about the origin of the universe and human beings, ancestors' understanding of some natural phenomena and their understanding of history, production, life and etiquette. These songs have small fluctuations, strong intonation and long length, and some lyrics are tens of thousands of lines long, which usually take hours or even days to sing. Most of these songs are sung by wizards or venerable old people in festivals, sacrifices or wedding and funeral ceremonies, and the atmosphere is solemn.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Folk Songs (Music)