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What are the three types of genres of Han folk songs?

The genres of Han folk songs are divided into three categories: labor bugles, mountain songs and ditties.

1. Labor Horns

Labor Horns is a kind of folk song produced and applied to labor. The song is used to unify the pace and regulate breathing. The bugle is a folk song that directly accompanies physical labor and closely matches the rhythm of labor. It is produced in the labor process, directly for the production of labor services, a true reflection of the labor situation and the spirit of the workers, its musical image of rough and bold, solid and powerful, is an indispensable organic part of certain physical labor.

2, mountain songs

Songs are songs sung by people in the field when they are working or expressing their emotions. It has a wide range of content, short structure, crisp tunes, simple emotions, high-pitched, free rhythm. Shan songs are folk songs in which the working people express their emotions freely. The most common contents of traditional mountain songs are love and suffering. Mountain songs are often sung outdoors, the tunes are mostly high-pitched and loud, the rhythms are mostly free and long, and the lyrics are mostly improvised.

3, minor

Small tunes, is one of the categories of Chinese folk songs. It generally refers to the Han folk songs and dances popular in towns and markets. After generations of circulation, in the art of more processing, with a balanced structure, rhythmic regularity, tune delicate, soft and so on.

Representative Songs of the Han Chinese Folk Songs

1, "Chuanjiang Boatmen's Horns"

"Chuanjiang Boatmen's Horns" belongs to the Horns folk songs. Chuanjiang River Boatmen's Horn is a large horn set that is both unified and contrasted by eight different horns such as "Flat Water Horn", "See Beach Horn", "Upper Beach Horn", "Desperate Horn" and "Lower Beach Horn".

2. "When Will the Sophora Blossoms Bloom"

"When Will the Sophora Blossoms Bloom" belongs to a mountain song, which is a classic of Sichuan folk songs, and it is actually a traditional mountain song in Yibin area, which has been formed for a long time. The lyrics of "When Will the Sophora Blossoms Bloom" are only four short lines, but in just a few words, it brings to life the image of an eloquent and shy rural girl who has fallen in love.

3, "flowers tune"

"Flowers tune" belongs to the ditty, also known as double stacked green, stacked broken bridge. Fengyang flower drum traditional repertoire, the Qing Dynasty spread throughout the country. It has been sung in Liuhe, Nanjing for a hundred years and is the predecessor of the Yangzhou city song "Jasmine Flower".