Definition of folk songs: broadly speaking, folk songs refer to songs with national styles, and narrowly speaking, folk songs refer to national folk songs. Folk songs are widely circulated in the folk generations of songs, is the most popular form of music, is the public oral creation, and in the circulation of the crystallization of the collective wisdom is constantly enriched, with very distinctive national characteristics and local color. China has a long history, a vast area, a large population and many ethnic groups, so folk songs have a long history and are as vast as the sea. The musical language of folk songs is concise and concise, the musical images are vivid and colorful, and the expression methods are colorful and colorful, which is an important part of China's national folk music treasury. Due to the vastness of our country, many ethnic groups, various ethnic groups and regions of the sea of folk songs, each with its own characteristics, according to statistics, around the collection of folk songs, the number of more than 300,000 in total. Classification of folk songs: Contemporary music is generally common according to the genre: labor trumpets, mountain songs. Minor key. Famous Chinese Folk Songs: Xinjiang: Xinjiang Good, Beautiful Girl (Kazakh) Youth Dance (Uyghur) Send Me a Rose (Uyghur) Carriage Driver's Love (Uyghur) Song of the Four Seasons (Qinghai) Aramu Khan (Uyghur), Dudar and Maria (Kazakh), Under the Silver Moonlight (Tatak) Lovely Rose, Youth Dance, Wahahaha Hubei: Dragon Boat Song, Digging Mud Fish Hunan: Songs of the Four Seasons, Liu Yang River, Pick Betel Nut Shanxi: Wu Ge's Sheepherding, Embroidered Lotus Bags, Lantern Festival Shaanxi and Gansu: Shandandandan Blossoms, New Year's Eve, New Year's Rice-planting Songs, Thirty Mile Shop, Scraping Wind, Orchid Blossoms, Wanting to Kiss, Catching Critters, Guangdong: Falling Rain, Taiwan: Snails and Orioles, Selling Soup Dumplings, Taiwan Island, A Birdie, Sky Darkness, Alishan's Girl Sichuan: Picking Flowers, The Sun Comes Out, Pleasant Wind, Chuanjiang Boatman Sichuan: Picking Flowers, The Sun Comes Out, The Horn of the River Boatmen, Kangding Love Song, Knowing or Not Knowing, Pair of Flowers, Rainbow Sisters Qinghai: In That Faraway Place Jiangsu: Meng Jiangnu, Jasmine Flowers Jiangxi: Crossing the Hengpai with Mountain Songs, August Osmanthus Blossoms All Over the Place, Ten Sent to the Red Army, Turtle Doves Liao Nian, Lunar New Year's Day Guangxi: There is a Carp Rock in Liuzhou Yunnan: The River Runs Through the Water Mongolian: Gadamerin, Shepherd's Song, Mongol Serenade, Little Oriole, Sen Ji Derma, Oroqen: The Rain is Big Jidema, Oroqen Chant Hebei: Little Cabbage, Kite Flying, Little Cattle Herding, Jasmine, Going Back to My Mother's Home Shandong: Yimeng Mountain Ditty, Jiangsu: Jasmine, Plucking a Root of Rushes Anhui: Fengyang Flower Drums, Fengyang Flower Drums Hunan: One Flat Stretcher and Two Buckets, One Bamboo Pole Easily Bent Tibetans: Song of Wine, The Day of the 15th of the First Moon Guangdong: The Day of the Falling Water, The Rising of the River, Ranges and Sands Guizhou: Jasmine Yi: The Moon Jumping Song Yunnan: The Rain Doesn't Sprinkle, The Flower Doesn't Red, Guessing Tune Yunnan: Raining without Sprinkling, Guessing Tune, Horse-herding Mountain Song Korean: Daolaki Hubei: Longboat Tune, Pushing Dong Pushing Famous Foreign Folk Songs: Red River Valley, Spring in the North, Song of Four Seasons, Solo River, Starry Nights, Earl Gates, Snow Flower, Volga Boatman's Song, Katyusha `` There are many ways to categorize Chinese folk songs. According to genre, they can be roughly divided into three major categories: horns (including porter's horns, boatmen's horns, workshop horns, etc.), mountain songs (including general mountain songs, grazing mountain songs, rice-planting mountain songs, etc.), and ditties (including ballads, seasonal tunes, customary ceremonial songs, and dance songs, etc.). In some scholars' treatises, folk songs are subdivided into bugles, mountain songs, herding songs, rice-planting songs, boat songs, nursery rhymes, ditties, and custom and ritual songs. The classification of genres helps to recognize and study the relationship between folk songs and people's lives, the social functions of folk songs, and the methods and characteristics of musical expression.
Classification according to the stylistic colors of nationalities and regions. There are 56 nationalities in China, and due to the differences in their historical traditions, linguistic characteristics, and living customs, the styles and colors of folk songs of different nationalities are far apart. Some of the ethnic groups that are more numerous and live in a wider area, such as the Han, Mongolian, Tibetan, Zhuang, Uyghur and other ethnic groups, can also be divided into a number of color zones according to the musical characteristics of their folk songs in different areas. For example, Han folk songs can be roughly divided into Northwest China, North China, Northeast China, Southwest China, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu and Huaihua 8 color areas, of which the first 3 areas belong to the northern slice, the 4th to 6th belong to the southern slice, the 7th and 8th belong to the north-south transition area. There are also the southern piece and the transition area is divided into Yun Gui Qian, Sichuan, Xiang E, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan and other four regions. There are different ways to categorize them, each with its own basis. The classification of style and color helps to understand and study the style and color of folk songs, the relationship between music and folklore and other issues. Classification according to subject matter helps to recognize and study the relationship between the content and form of folk songs. In addition, there are also categorized according to the period of historical development, or out of the need for a particular topic of study and special classification.