What are the classifications of Dai folk songs?

Dai folk songs can be divided into labor songs, folk songs, narrative songs and folk songs.

There are many kinds of labor songs, and there are many kinds of labor. Most of the content reflects people's working life and their hope and joy for a bumper harvest.

Folk songs are mainly love songs, mostly sung by young men and women in Shan Ye forest. There are solo and duet forms. The folk songs in Dai inhabited areas have different styles. The same tune with different words, except the main tone of the mode and the ending sound at the end of the sentence and song, other elements can be changed.

There are three kinds of ballads: fairy ballads, heroic ballads and sad ballads. The tune has distinct chanting characteristics.

Folk songs can be divided into folk songs and religious ceremony songs. Wedding and funeral songs are the most distinctive folk songs of the Dai people. The Dai language for crying and marrying is called "Shout Haithami"; The funeral song is called "calling the sea" in Dai language.

Primitive religious sacrificial songs mainly include local hymns, family hymns and evocation tunes. The Dai language for offering sacrifices to local gods is called "keeping the house and dreaming". Every year in the seventh month of the lunar calendar 15, a ceremony of "worshipping the society" is held in the society temple, and "calling the society" is sung.

There are also some distinctive Dai songs and dances, such as peacock dance, Twelve Horses Dance and Heel Drum Dance. These songs and dances are often accompanied by beautiful dance music.