The root and foundation of folk songs are

The roots and foundations of folk songs are people's life and labor.

Folk songs are songs written and sung by the working people themselves in their lives and labor. It exists among the people in the form of oral creation and oral circulation, and is constantly screened, transformed, processed and refined by the people in the process of circulation.

Therefore, popular folk songs gather the collective wisdom, emotional experience and emotional expression of music art of people in different periods, regions, identities and experiences.

Multifunctional folk songs Besides entertainment, folk songs also have the following social functions:

(1) Life etiquette:

In the four important stages of life: birth, adulthood, marriage and death, folk songs are often accompanied by ritual activities and become an important procedure.

(2) Sacrifice to exorcise evil spirits:

Some ethnic groups often sing in sacrificial ceremonies and exorcism ceremonies presided over by wizards and witches.

(3) Love to communicate:

Including love, communication, sending, greeting, fighting with wisdom with songs and so on. They often sing in traditional songs or in daily life.

(4) Express your feelings:

Folk songs are the aspirations of working people, and many traditional folk songs express people's resistance to the unreasonable system in the old society.

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