Opera music in folk songs in western Fujian

Folk songs and operas in western Fujian are the main parts. There are more than 120 songs and more than 70 commonly used songs. Each capital consists of four phrases, and its unique style is multi-level jumping. . There are three ways to use it: one is to sing multiple lyrics repeatedly with one tune; Second, according to the plot content and emotional needs, select a number of corresponding melody combinations to sing; Thirdly, in order to express complex and diverse feelings, several tunes with the same or different tastes are taken out from their typical phrases and recombined into new tunes. The beat form is mostly 2/4 beat, and the rhythm is lively. Melody is based on pentatonic scale, and there are two commonly used modes: sign mode and feather mode. Because the "Shang" tone is very active and prominent in the mode, folk songs and operas have unique styles, and the singing is both high and rough, simple and lyrical, beautiful and euphemistic, and implicit. The genre structure is a four-sentence style, and the lyrics are mostly four sentences based on seven sentences. There are often interlining and interlining in lyrics. Commonly used are: ah, oh, ah, hey, Luo, Diego, strolling, Si, Ha, etc. Thirteen rhymes, sung in Mandarin, mixed with dialects.

It consists of folk songs, minor, folk songs and dances and folk music. At the same time, it absorbs the musical elements of western Fujian Han opera, Jiangxi tea-picking opera, Hunan ancient painting opera and eastern Guangdong Hakka folk song opera, which mainly comes from three forms of folk songs: Hakka folk songs, Longyan folk songs and Liancheng folk songs.

First, Hakka folk songs

Mainly popular in Hakka dialect areas, including Changting, Yongding, Shanghang, Wuping, Ninghua, Liu Qing, Mingxi (osmanthus) and other counties. Melody often emphasizes la and re. The most typical example is Ning Hua's The New Shuttle Mark. The whole song consists of only two sounds, la and re, and the sol sound only appears as a backward sound.

Second, Longyan folk songs

Mainly popular in Longyan county, the typical tune consists of three sounds: la, duo and re, and the musical structure is the repetition of the upper and lower sentences.

Third, Liancheng folk songs

Mainly popular in Liancheng county and the junction of Liancheng, Yong' an and Longyan counties. Tunes are mostly composed of three trisyllabic sequences: mi, la, do, la, do, mi or do, mi and sol. There are solo, duet and chorus of more than three people.

Folk songs and ballads, which are widely circulated among Han people in western Fujian, have unique and distinctive characteristics in popularity and circulation, which directly reflect the social life and personal feelings and experiences of working people. Folk songs and operas in western Fujian come directly from the people and are full of life. The content covers farming songs, tea picking songs, long-term labor songs, wedding songs, grazing songs, love songs, etc., and the tunes are simple and simple.

Folk songs in western Fujian mainly reflect the theme of real life, and the lyrics and narration often borrow the metaphor of folk songs, which are popular, vivid, rhyming and humorous. The folk opera in western Fujian has absorbed the performing arts of Longyan, Shanghang, Liancheng, Yongding, Wuping, Changting and Ruijin, and collected more than 170 kinds of folk songs. After refining, processing and innovation, the tunes of folk songs and operas in western Fujian have been enriched, which can adapt to the changes and development of story plots and the shaping of characters. It also absorbed the artistic nutrition of puppet show, Western Qin opera, Chaozhou opera, Raoping opera, China military drum music, Class 10 and Minxi folk songs, which made Minxi folk songs mature day by day.

Folk songs and operas in western Fujian are a literary form with Chinese cultural characteristics, simple, natural and true, with a strong local flavor. In particular, the structure is short, the charm is harmonious, catchy, easy to remember and spread, so the mass base is very solid, which can be described as "there are folk songs everywhere, and everyone sings folk songs". In the process of continuous development, folk opera has always maintained a strong local flavor and distinctive local color while learning from others, so it is favored by people at home and abroad and is known as "a gorgeous camellia in western Fujian".