What are the reasons for the formation of folk songs? Thank you, everyone.

Folk songs have three characteristics: first, they have 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. In the past, working people were deprived of the right to master culture. They could not read books or watch music, but relied on word of mouth to compose and sing their own songs to meet the needs of life. For example, "Long-term Workers Suffer" and "Difficulties in Recruiting Workers" pour out the sadness of long-term workers being defrauded and oppressed; Embroidered purse expresses the girl's longing for her lover and yearning for a happy life. Song of Tamping and Song of Chuanjiang Boatman show the heroic spirit of laborers in their struggle with nature. "Toad Flower" and "Mother Dongsi" sing the innocent character of children when they play games. But "there are fake poets and no fake folk songs" (Ming and Feng Menglong). The people's thoughts and feelings expressed by folk songs are the most real and profound. Secondly, folk songs are gradually formed and developed through extensive mass improvisation and oral singing. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of countless people. The creation process, singing process and circulation process of folk songs are integrated into one. In the process of singing, improvisation, in the process of composing, singing and cycling. Of course, the process of creation and development of traditional folk songs is slow and spontaneous. Third, the musical form is simple, approachable and vivid. Folk songs are short and pithy, and most of them take music fragments as the basic structural unit. The structure of segmented songs, which is composed of a single piece of music, occupies a large proportion in folk songs, and the musical materials and expressions of folk songs are economical and refined. Most of the tones of folk songs have a strong local flavor and local color. They are closely combined with dialect pronunciation, with vivid music performance, flexible and vivid form, no fixed beat, good at change and strong adaptability to various contents, lyrics, singing occasions and conditions. The Formation of China Folk Songs China folk songs have a long history and rich artistic heritage. They were born in the collective labor of enthusiastic people far away from primitive society. Because there were no words and music scores, the folk songs at that time could not be completely tested. The Book of Songs contains 160 northern China folk songs. Although it is only recorded in writing, it is enough to show that from 1 1 century BC to the 6th century BC, China's folk songs have developed into quite complete and mature art forms. For thousands of years, the China Revolution has been closely accompanying the people, expressing their thoughts and will, recording their history, and cultivating writers and artists of all ages. "Yuefu Folk Songs" in Han, Wei and Six Dynasties. The "Quzi Ci" in Tang and Song Dynasties, the "Sanqu" and "Xiaoling" in Yuan Dynasty, and the "Ballad" and "Xiaoqu" since Ming and Qing Dynasties are just a few pearls left in the sea of Wang Yang. They radiate immortal brilliance in the cultural history of China. In the past half century, fundamental changes have taken place in China society, and the China Revolution has also embarked on a new road. During this period, a large number of new folk songs were produced and developed greatly in all aspects. Under the influence of different natural conditions, social conditions, lifestyles and working methods, folk songs have formed the richness and diversity of theme forms, styles, colors, means of expression, artistic experience and tonal materials. It has many classification methods. From the perspective of subject matter, it can be roughly divided into: reflecting social contradictions and class struggle; Reflect productive labor; Reflect love and marriage; Reflect daily life; Funny and enlightening; Singing legends and stories, people's news, places of interest, etc. Judging from the theme, it can be roughly divided into: songs, folk songs, minor, dance music, custom ceremony songs and so on. In the Xinmin songs produced in the past half century, there are two new theme factors: March and ode. In terms of style and color, there are 56 ethnic groups in China, and the folk songs of all ethnic groups have enriched the treasure house of China music culture with their unique style characteristics. In Han, Tibetan, Mongolian, Kazak, Uygur, Zhuang and other ethnic groups with a large number and a wide living area, they can be subdivided according to different local characteristics. As we all know, all kinds of folk music, such as opera, folk art and national instrumental music, are developed on the basis of folk songs, and professional music creation cannot be separated from the nourishment of folk songs. And they enriched the content of folk songs with their own artistic characteristics and professional skills, refined the form of this folk song, and had a positive impact on the development of folk songs. Folk songs of various nationalities, regions and periods in China are like beautiful white flowers blooming everywhere. What is introduced here is just a drop in the ocean in folk songs.