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Folk song style

The style of folk songs varies from region to region and from nation to nation. Dai folk songs are lively and beautiful, while Hezhe folk songs are rough and bold. Han folk songs are mostly bold in the north and graceful in the south. But both are southern folk songs, and Wu Ge is more delicate than Chu songs. The same flower, different nationalities or regions, also have their own characteristics.

The content, form and creation of folk songs are in the process of development and change. In the new era, there are many red ballads and Xinmin songs that reflect the revolutionary struggle and people's new life under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Among them, the new political ballads are mainly carols, but while praising the times and the people, they also expose the shortcomings and mistakes of attacking all reactionary things and criticizing leaders and the masses. The new life songs have changed the tone of grief and indignation in the past, filled with the pride and happiness of the people being the masters of the country, with a high-pitched and brisk style, and often mixed with praise for the party, the army and the people's political power. Many new love songs combine love with revolutionary war, productive labor and learning science and culture, showing a new realm of young men and women's thoughts and feelings in the new era. In the new children's songs, the number of inspiring works has increased significantly. Some ancient ritual songs and labor songs are gradually disappearing under the new social life conditions.

The form of folk songs changes slowly and has relative stability. Therefore, although some new changes can be seen in the form of modern new folk songs, the styles, sentence patterns and rhyming methods of ancient traditional folk songs are still in use today.

Folk songs are the oral creation of the people, full of vitality, and their excellent works have high artistic value. It is rooted in the soil where people live and has many practical functions directly. It closely follows the historical process of the people, reflects the social outlook and people's psychology in different periods, and has important cognitive value.

Folk songs occupy a very important position in the history of China literature. It is the ancestor of poetry and literature and one of the creative sources of writers and poets. Most of China's four-character poems, five-character poems, seven-character poems, ci poems, songs and other genres originated from the people. Chuci is closely related to ancient folk songs, Jian 'an literature and Yuefu in Han Dynasty, ballads of Tang poetry and Six Dynasties, zaju in Yuan Dynasty and folk songs since the Five Dynasties. Learning folk songs by contemporary writers is one of the ways to promote the popularization and nationalization of socialist literature.

Artistic feature

1 cat is automatic and simple.

The overall style of folk songs can be described as automatic and simple. Folk songs have distinct characteristics of frankness and naturalness, and their significance has two aspects: one is truth, and the other is natural charm. This feature is formed by four factors: first, the way of creation and dissemination of folk songs is a part of people's lives; Second, the thoughts and feelings expressed by folk songs are true and natural; Thirdly, the expression of folk songs is frank and natural, and they are good at expressing their thoughts vividly with the help of things in their living environment; Fourthly, the language of folk songs is a natural and vivid oral language.

2 Various forms and harmonious rhythm.

There are many styles of folk songs, each with its own characteristics. Generally speaking, there are certain routines to follow in the creation and singing of various folk songs, and their composition, sentence patterns, idioms, tunes and rhythms are often fixed. The most prominent feature of folk songs in form is the harmony of rhythm, which makes folk songs easy to spread and full of music, and it is also a constituent factor of folk songs as poems and songs.

3. Use a variety of methods for lyrical narration, and the artistic conception is beautiful and vivid.

A remarkable feature of folk songs is the frequent use of artistic techniques such as fu, bi, xing, repetition, pun and exaggeration in expression.

Appreciation of lyrics

On the first day, the girl came to see the dragon lantern, and her sister-in-law dressed her up as a flower face.

Put down your hair and comb your hair.

Put a red coat on the white silk skirt.

The double-breasted cloak is light and smart, about three inches of golden lotus.

Mother, don't marry my son to Pingyang.

Pingyang has three mountains and four oceans, and the front door is white.

The back door introduces the big cat to drag the pig mother and directly introduces the mother to go home.

A good mother lays eggs, not a good mother slaps you three times.

Don't blame the big one, don't blame the mother, just blame the matchmaker for rotten belly.

Eighteen-year-old couples with one-year-old Lang, who feeds her every day.

Hit the urine bag at night and pick it up to see the light.

Call her husband a joke and her son an asshole.

Go to chop bamboo in the first month and go to Ruogu in February.

In March, we will set out for the ocean, and in April, we will see a piece of pomfret.

May is heavy, but June is hard to open.

The water is windy in July and the sea is empty in August.

On September 9, the monk had a fight with his head.

1October 10, the boss released the network for sale.

A gluttonous woman is not a housewife, but a gluttonous woman is lazy and smiles.

There was a floor in front of the hall that refused to sweep, and the dust on the table was dragged by hand.

The guests came slowly and brought out half a bowl of dust and half a bowl of tea.

In Japan, the host went to the west and spun cotton yarn with lights on at night.

Spin a goose egg in three years and a cauliflower yarn in four years.

Cauliflower yarn, cauliflower yarn, mouse dragging it as its tail.