What do you mean by folk songs?

Folk songs can be divided into three categories: chant, folk songs and minor.

1, cell:

The labor chant is called "chant" for short, and it is often called "big chant" in the north and "shouting chant" in the south. Chant is a kind of folk song that is directly accompanied by manual labor and closely cooperates with the labor rhythm. It is produced in the process of labor, directly serves productive labor, and truly reflects the working conditions and mental outlook of laborers. Its musical image is rough, heroic, solid and powerful, and it is an indispensable organic part of some manual labor.

2. Folk songs:

It refers to songs that people improvise when they are working in the fields or expressing their feelings. Its content is extensive, its structure is short, its tune is bright, its emotion is simple, its sound is high and its rhythm is free. Folk songs are mainly distributed in plateau, inland, mountain villages and fishing villages. It is widely distributed and rich in reserves. Folk songs are one of the basic genres of China folk songs. Generally speaking, it refers to folk songs with free rhythm and long melody that spread in plateau, mountainous area and hilly area, and people entertain themselves when walking, cutting firewood, grazing and mowing grass.

3, minor:

A genre category of Han folk songs in China. Generally speaking, it refers to the Han folk song and dance ditty popular in town fairs. After being passed down through the ages, it has undergone more processing in art, with the characteristics of balanced structure, regular rhythm, delicate melody and softness. In some scholars' works, folk songs are divided into chant, folk songs, pastoral songs, field yangko, boat songs, nursery rhymes, minor songs, custom ceremony songs and so on. Genre classification is helpful to understand and study the relationship between folk songs and people's lives, the social functions of folk songs, and the methods and characteristics of music expression.

China's national folk music is an ancient and evergreen towering tree in the world's national music forest, and it is the pride of our Chinese people. It stands proudly in the east of the world with its rich and splendid flowers and fruits, profound and long historical traditions and unique and diverse color characteristics. China's national folk music is a sea of Wang Yang, and each nation has its own proud and long-standing folk songs. Folk songs are an integral part of the splendid culture of the Chinese nation. The 56 ethnic groups in the big family of the Chinese nation have an ancient history, distant civilization and splendid culture. The excellent folk songs bred from this fertile soil in China are simple and melodious, lively and beautiful, pleasing to the ear, touching and fascinating. Like other arts, folk song art is profound, with unique rhyme and applause and strong vitality.

Types of folk songs:

1, plateau folk songs. Folk songs are one of the representative genres of China folk songs. They are short folk songs that people sing at will in individual labor life, such as grazing, chopping wood, carrying loads, weeding and walking mountains. Singers are completely free from the restrictions of the labor rhythm they are engaged in, and they can sing whatever they want. Singing is full of the characteristics of freedom, unrestrained, stretching and long. Folk songs in China are widely spread, but mainly concentrated in the plateaus and mountainous areas in the southwest, northwest and north.

2. Work number. Labor bugle, commonly known as trumpet or whistle, is one of the important genres of folk songs in China, which is widely spread in all provinces and regions of China. Its main function is to unify everyone's labor rhythm, coordinate labor actions and adjust people's labor emotions. All kinds of productive labor produced all kinds of labor songs. The singing method of the labor bugle is basically a combination of a leader and many people. That is, one person leads, and everyone closes; Or everyone leads and everyone closes. In slow-paced chanting, the leading sentence is longer and the ending sentence is slightly shorter; In intense labor, the leading sentence and the combined sentence are very short. In addition, generally speaking, the combined sentence enters after the end of the leading sentence, but there are also structural forms in which the combined sentence enters before the end of the leading sentence, resulting in the overlap of the two voices.

3. rice area? Tian Ge. The Yangtze River and Pearl River basins in China are one of the largest rice growing areas in the world. Since ancient times, rice farmers have been used to singing for fun when transplanting rice seedlings, weeding, transporting water and digging land. These folk songs have various names, and are usually called Tian Ge. The most famous ones are those in central and southern Jiangsu? Gedongdai, gongs and drums; Shanghai Qingpu? Tian,; Anhui? Shout yangko, yangko; Jiangxi? Chushan drum? Drum music; Hubei? Changyang mowing gongs and drums, fan cavity, mowing songs, Yuan 'an flower drum lanterns; Hunan? Step on Tian Ge? Playing gongs and drums; Fujian? Tian Yun's poetry; Guangdong and Guangxi? Playing gongs and opening folk songs? Insert Tian Ge; Cloud, expensive and Sichuan? Cutting grass, singing and so on.

4. town? Minor. Minor (or ditty) is a genre of folk songs widely spread in towns and markets. For a long time, through the processing and tempering of professional and semi-professional folk artists in cities and towns, a series of theme features have been formed, such as unified structure, regular rhythm, delicate tunes and diverse theme contents. Modern minor tracks can be roughly divided into three categories. One kind is a minor evolved from the folk songs of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Folk songs of the Ming Dynasty, such as Parasitic Grass, Goat on the Hillside, Noisy Wugeng and Playing with Children; Qing Dynasty folk songs, such as "Cut Indigo Flower" and "Jade Elang".

5. Yunling Two tones. For a long time, people thought that China's folk songs were monosyllabic. It was not until the late 1940s that musicians began to observe the phenomenon that a group of singers in southwest China sang two voices at the same time. These? The parts used in two-tone folk songs are mostly dense intervals of the same degree, second degree, third degree, fourth degree and fifth degree.

6. Folk songs in northern Shaanxi. Northern Shaanxi is a place where folk songs gather. There are many kinds of folk songs, commonly known as folk songs or sour songs. There are many kinds of folk songs in northern Shaanxi. The representative folk songs in northern Shaanxi include Huahe Pu, including Four Seasons Song, Wugeng Song, Langong Song, Jiuge, Yangko Song, Labor Song, Dance Song, Yulin Xiaoqu, Weibei Folk Song, Shaanxi Suite, Errentai, Folk Song, Religious Song, Tanjia Tune and so on. , characterized by minor and belief in heaven.

7. Hakka folk songs. Hakka folk songs mainly include Hakka folk songs and Hakka nursery rhymes. Popular in Meixian, xingning city, Wuhua and Zijin counties in eastern Guangdong, Shanghang, Ninghua, Liu Qing and Yongding in western Fujian, Xingguo, Ruijin and Yongxin in southern Jiangxi, Taoyuan, Hsinchu and Miaoli in northern Taiwan Province.

8. Yunnan folk songs. Yunnan folk songs pour out the mutual love between men and women by singing, stimulate the labor enthusiasm in the production struggle, express the mourning for the dead, the blessing for marriage, and express the joy of harvest and festivals. The representative Yunnan folk songs are Zhu Fengbo's Running Water and Embroidered Pocket.

1 10 popular folk songs:

1 Jasmine

2. Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

3. Dongfanghong

4. Nanniwan

5. In that distant place

6. Impression of Chengdu

Step 7 die

8. Grassland Night

9. Kangding love song

10, you

1 1, hymn

12, good day?

13, lullaby?

Sunshine China 14

15, Aobaohui

16, lift your veil

17, girl from Alishan

18, please stay for guests coming from afar.

19, Ussuri Boat Song?

20. Bambusa bambusa in the moonlight

2 1, pastoral?

22. Beautiful grassland My home.

23. Are the grapes in Turpan ripe?

24. plug?

25.Aramu Khan

26. Beijing Jinshan

27. Spring in the north?

28. Mongolians

29. Is the river dripping?

30. The sun rises and sets on the grassland.

3 1, Hong Hushui wave?

32. Climb up in half a month?

33. How about Xinjiang?

34. Is the north wind blowing?

35. Liuyang River

36. Peaceful sunshine?

37. Everest?

38. Homesickness

39. butterfly spring.

40. Beautiful girl

4 1, where the peach blossoms bloom?

42. Does the frontier compete with Jiangnan everywhere?

43.30 mile store?

44, 99 sunny day?

45. Purple bamboo tune

46. Who doesn't say my hometown is good?

47. The Great Wall Ballad?

48. Is Shandandan blooming brightly?

49. orchids?

50. The grassland at night is beautiful.

5 1, I go with the moon?

52. Dragon boat tune?

53. Do you want to kiss?

54. Star cable?

55. In the silver moonlight

56. Deep sea?

57. Chinese cabbage

58. Go back to your mother's house

59. Graduation song?

60. Fengyang Flower Drum

6 1, high loess slope?

62. A beautiful mind?

63. Walking into Tibet?

64. flowers

Please come to the ends of the earth

66. Flowers and teenagers?

In August, osmanthus blossoms everywhere?

68. Pick betel nuts?

69. Choose a red diamond?

70. Yimeng Mountain Minor

7 1, Yuguang Song?

72. Small basket

73. In Sun Island?

74. The glory of Chairman Mao?

75. Send a lover

76. There are clouds in the sky?

77. Senjidema?

78. Meng Jiangnv?

79. Come in February

80. Song of Peony

8 1, hot girl?

82. Snow Lotus on the iceberg?

83. Are there any beautiful legends?

84. Youth dance music

85. Prairie love

86. The girl in Dabancheng?

87. The girl who sings?

88. Go to Sichuan?

89. Red bean dialect?

90. Walk slowly, horse.

9 1. Why are the flowers so red?

92, crescent moon five more?

93. Does the bluebird sing when the bell rings?

94. Little ox?

95. Visit a new city

96. Do people say that the scenery in Shanxi is good?

97. Peach blossom, red apricot and white flower?

98. Do you wash clothes in the river?

99. The sun is shining.

100, red rooster Scud

10 1, peaceful sunshine?

102, ten to the red army?

103, red army brothers, take your time?

104, Soviet cadres have a good style?

105, azalea?

106, the mountains are covered with red leaves like rosy clouds.

107, playing my beloved pipa?

108, Beijing Jinshan?

109, love my China?

1 10, singing folk songs