What is singing folk songs?

Singing folk songs refers to improvising songs when working in the fields or expressing emotions. 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 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.

The spread and distribution of China folk songs are mainly concentrated in the northwest Loess Plateau, Qinghai Plateau, southwest Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Qinling Daba Mountain, Dabie Mountain, Wuyishan Mountain and Tibet Plateau.

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The types of folk songs are the unique names of local folk songs in different regions. The common types are Xintianyou in northern Shaanxi, Folk Songs in Shanxi, Flowers and Teenagers in Gansu, Qinghai, Catch Five Sentences in Hubei, Morning Songs in Sichuan, Earning a Red Neck in Anhui and so on.

Hakka people are good at singing, and Hakka folk songs are formed and developed with the formation of Hakka people. Hakka folk songs are folk songs sung in Hakka dialect, which are produced by Hakka working people. When people cut wood, pick catalpa, cut trees to discharge, shovel oil, carry burdens, work in the fields, or find companions to drive away wild animals and robbers.

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