Is Shaoshan Mountain Song a Hunan Mountain Song?

Yes.

Shaoshan Mountain Song is a unique form of artistic expression in the traditional folk songs of Hunan Province, mainly circulating in the three townships of Shaoshan City, Shaoshan Township, Daping Township, and Yanglin Township, as well as the surrounding neighboring areas.

Shaoshan is the only city in China named after music, according to legend, Emperor Shun played shao music on his southern tour, "xiao shao nine into the phoenix," so the name Shaoshan. With the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, Shaolu this court music and dance also disappeared. In the historical precipitation and shao music perfect fusion in the shaoshan mountain song, and now become one of the important basis for the study of shao music. Rooted in folklore, Shaoshan songs are infused with the simple emotions of the working people and with their unique artistic thinking, sending the prayers of the working people for a better life.

Shaoshan Mountain Songs:

Shaoshan Mountain Songs refer to the songs sung by people in the field when they are working or expressing their emotions. It has a wide range of content, short structure, crisp tunes, simple, high-pitched emotions, and free rhythm. The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, in which the "National Winds" part is made up of folk songs collected from various places, that is, mountain songs in the modern sense.

Shan songs, mainly concentrated in the plateau, the hinterland, mountain townships, fishing villages of the Han Chinese and ethnic minority areas, prevalent in Shanghai, Shanxi, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other regions.

In the thousands of years of history of the Chinese nation, the Han people have created and preserved numerous mountain songs rich in local characteristics. The descendants of the ancient Baiyue ethnic group in the Lingnan region are known for their good songs and ability to sing, and the mountain songs are among the very unique ethnic cultures, whose history can be traced back to the Songs of the Yue People during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.