What are the basic contents of Hakka songs? What are its artistic characteristics

The Hakka Song is one of the mountain songs in the genre of Chinese folk songs. Popular in the eastern Guangdong Meixian, Xingning, Wuhua, Zijin, western Fujian Shanghang, Ninghua, Qingliu, Yongding, southern Jiangxi Xingguo, Ruijin, Yongxin and other places, as well as northern Taiwan Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Miaoli and other Hakka people inhabited places. The songs are sung in the Hakka dialect, so they are called "Hakka Shan Songs". Hakka songs have a wide range of contents, and the language is simple and vivid. The lyrics make good use of simile, and the rhyme scheme is neat. The lyrics are in the form of four lines of seven characters, each line being a combination of "2, 2, 3". The lyrics are not fixed and are usually improvised. It is possible to sing a song with multiple words over and over again.

Any art has its social background and historical origin. Mountain songs are popular in the Hakka region, there are about the following four reasons: First, the Hakka are mostly distributed in the mountainous areas of the provinces of eastern and southern China, daily life with the "mountain" relationship, and Hakka custom is that women and men also serve as a variety of operations in the mountains in the long-term mountain *** with the work of men and women talk to each other about the song is expected, and the mountain song is a sonorous, and the sound of the mountain song is the most important thing, and the song is a sound of the song. The mountain songs are words with rhymes, which can express their feelings better than ordinary language.　Secondly, the Hakka live in the mountainous areas, work harder, once you go to the mountains or in the valley of the wilderness, can not help but feel happy, and want to sing a few songs to give vent to their feelings.　Third, the old Hakka because there is no other more complete and universal folk entertainment, usually suppressed emotions can not get proper vent, and singing songs is a popular entertainment, so the general men and women on it have *** with the favorite.　Fourthly, in the Hakka society, the old rituals are very strict, usually in the family or in the countryside, men and women keep strict boundaries between each other, except for the couple relationship, social activities between men and women are very rare. Even between husband and wife, there are few easy life programs. Since they were too restrained at home, it was as if their spirits were liberated when they went to the mountains, so they would naturally sing mountain songs.　The content and nature of Hakka songs can be roughly divided into the following three kinds: First, it belongs to self-indulgence or self-expression, singing may not have an object, and sometimes a person can be alone to hum a few phrases to spice up the boring mood. The second is the flirtatious songs between men and women, which is the most important part of Hakka songs. Thirdly, it belongs to bantering songs, that is, one of the men and women will sing a mountain song to the other in a bantering attitude, and if the other party reacts, they will ridicule each other with the mountain song, and if there is no reaction, they can know that she (he) is an honest person who can be deceived or can't sing the mountain song, and then they can be let off the leash even more.　The songs that belong to self-indulgence are: Eating cigarettes, I love to eat two or three tubes; Lianmei, I love to be connected to two or three clans; the first one is to have a good speech, and the second one is to have talent to cover Guangdong.　Put down your burdens and sit in the tea pavilion, and dare to sing a mountain song for fear of people.　A song is like Zhuge Liang, not afraid of Cao Cao's millions of soldiers.　The songs are playful: A gust of rain comes with a gust of wind, and you're afraid of your husband, you don't dare to talk about what's on your mind, and you don't dare to move.　Tea picking girl really poor, backpack argued like a pear round, tea head to tea tail turn, how many hard work to do no money.　Your life is still crooked.　You don't have enough to eat three times a day, and you wear straw shoes all year round.　Love Song: When I enter the mountain, I see the vine wrapped around the tree; when I leave the mountain, I see the tree wrapped around the vine; the vine is wrapped around the tree until it dies; the tree is wrapped around the vine until it dies.　When the tree blossomed, the flowers blossomed, the brother took the top and the sister took the bottom, and the tail of the shirt was held up to wait for the groom to take it, and the groom took it and went home again.　The new fan is seven inches long, I bought it to give to my lover, telling him not to fall, so that they can sleep together.　The willow by the river is tender and delicate, take up the paddleboard and wait for the east tide, A brother, boat sister, water, boat floating in the water, let brother shake.

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The Hakka songs have beautiful melodies, and almost all of the tunes have ornamental sounds such as trills, glissandos, and leaning tones, which make the melodies melodious and melodious. Hakka songs are sung in a variety of styles, including Songkou Yuanban Mountain Song, Meixian Mountain Song, Xingning Luogang Mountain Song, Jiaoling Changtan Mountain Song, and Daipu Xihe Mountain Song. Hakka Mountain Songs

Hakka mountain songs have a wide range of subjects, implicit meaning, and make good use of the technique of comparison, especially puns, and the language is vivid and popular, rhyming and catchy. For example: "Lang has the heart to sister has the heart, pestle and mortar grinding into embroidery needle; Lang tie needle to sister tie line, needle line three steps line to find." This song directly compares the inseparable love between a man and a woman to the needles and threads that have never been separated, which is easy to understand, visual, sincere and vivid; "The kernel of an olive is not round enough to be eaten, and the thought of love doesn't dare to open up; the mute person eats a single chopstick, and it is hard to speak when he wants to become a couple. This song utilizes vivid metaphors. This song utilizes vivid metaphors and puns to express the feelings of lovesickness, saying that they adore each other and want to become a couple with each other, but it is difficult for them to speak, which is euphemistic, subtle and intriguing.　Hakka songs have strong artistic imagination. For example, "The new ring is nine rings in a row, and one ring has been handed over for nine years; the nine rings are returned to eighty-one, and love has been handed over for nineteen years." Hakka songs in everything is emotional, life, the ring was originally no feelings of ornaments, but it is generally used as a "token of love", so the song of the ring has become a witness of love, showing the men and women with a hundred years of good hot love; "see sister picking the burden of one hundred and twenty-three, a brother heart I want to share the load with you, but I don't dare to say anything because there are so many people." The song describes the Hakka girl's diligence and ability to carry one hundred and twenty to thirty pounds of loads over a long distance, which makes the man surprised and distressed, and at the same time, it carefully portrays the complex feelings of the young man who is both concerned about his lover and afraid of being shy, which makes the lyrical narration all in one.

The artistic characteristics of Hakka songs include:

1. Strong feelings and rich imagination.

Newly hit the ring nine consecutive rings, a chain of nine years of intercourse; 九九还归八十一，还爱交交十九年。　In the Hakka song, everything has feelings and life, and the ring was originally an ornament without feelings, but the ring in the song has become a witness of love, showing that men and women have been in love for a hundred years.

2. The image is clear and the mood is fresh.

In the mountains, I saw the vines entangled in the trees, and out of the mountains, I saw the trees entangled in the vines; the trees died and the vines were entangled in death, and the vines died and the trees were entangled in death.　 The song not only depicts a vivid image, but also implies feelings in the scene, through the scene to convey feelings, forming a scenario, fresh and beautiful mood.

3, lyrical narrative, all in one.

When I saw my sister carrying a hundred and twenty-three burdens, I was shocked; I wanted to share them with you, but I didn't dare to say anything because of the crowd.　The song describes the Hakka girl's diligence and ability to carry a long-distance load of one hundred and twenty-three pounds, which surprised and distressed the man, and at the same time, carefully portrays the complex feelings of the young man who is both concerned about his lover and afraid of being shy.

4, the sense of things that is the matter, natural and smooth.

The new house is four-square, with the upper hall and the lower hall; three rooms and three sets have been made, and I ask my sister whether she loves the corridor or not.　 The listener seems to see a simple young man eager to know the girl's heart, so he uses the object as a metaphor for love, and borrows the technique of "gallery" and "lang" to subtly and euphemistically test his beloved girl

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