What is a mountain song?

Shan song, that is, the song of the mountains, refers to all kinds of impromptu lyric songs sung in the mountain field other than the labor horn. Mountain songs are a major category of traditional folk songs, and are generally classified as mountain songs when they are sung in the fields and pastures, such as rice-planting songs and grazing songs. Singing mountain songs is the best way for laborers to express their feelings, relieve their boredom and dispel their fatigue, and it is also an important means of communicating and echoing their feelings in the field. Mountain songs are free in form and wide in content, reflecting the reality of the fastest, most reflective of people's thoughts and feelings and the spiritual world of a folk song genre. "If you don't sing a mountain song, your throat will itch; if you sing a mountain song, it will seem like a river flowing." Mountain songs are indeed the indispensable spiritual food for the people at the bottom of the society.