What are the sounds of Chinese folk music

Hello This is the definition of Chinese folk music. Chinese folk music is divided into: folk songs, folk song and dance music, folk instrumental music, folk rap music and folk opera music.

Folk music in a narrow sense refers to Han Chinese music, or "folk music" for short. The music of China's ethnic minorities, such as Tibetan music, Mongolian music, and Zhuang music, has many more styles and contents.

Chinese music

Chinese music is represented by the <<Chinese Wedding March>> also known as the Chinese <<Kissing Song>>. Is the Chinese countryside of the authentic wedding song, the lyrics are in the northern dialect & lt; including Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Shanxi, Shandong, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Henan and other places & gt; based on our traditional Chinese accent sung, so that people listen to a sense of cordiality, especially in front of the section of the nursery rhymes will evoke many middle-aged people's beautiful childhood memories, people have a thousand, let a lot of feelings. The song is a little bit rustic, but it's not the same as the song that you're used to. Although the song is a bit rustic, can be said to be rustic, but this rustic is precisely the characteristics of the song, the advantages and highlights, but also the song is the most valuable and meaningful place. Because we are native Chinese, we can't get away from the soil. The earth is a kind of beauty, the earth is a kind of nature, the earth is a kind of simplicity, it is the embodiment and symbol of the soul and essence of our Chinese people.

Mr. Shen Baofeng's <<Chinese Wedding March>> is characterized by lightheartedness, humor, joyfulness and practicality. Is a country song with Chinese characteristics, but also authentic Chinese songs, because China has one billion farmers, accounting for about 80 percent of the Chinese population, as long as the song is suitable for the tastes of Chinese farmers is the song of the Chinese, is the Chinese style of the song, which must be indicated in the traditional two words, China's 5,000 years of culture, our ancestors have left the valuable wealth, we can not forget, we also have our own authentic We also have our own authentic Chinese flavor songs and weddings. Let the world look up to our Chinese culture. This song contains a lot of content and culture, including the unique Chinese culture of joy, the Chinese people from ancient times like to lively and festive, in the song is integrated into the wedding firecrackers, flute and other festive elements, so that people listen to the joy of smiling. There are also Chinese characteristics of filial piety culture, the Chinese old man is most concerned about the succession, the continuation of the flame, and the Chinese people from ancient times also respect filial children, filial piety first, filial piety is three, no later for the big and so on is the ancestors of the mouth passed down to the present day of the classic quotes. All of these are fully reflected in the song. The song also includes the traditional Chinese culture of "husband and wife" and "respecting each other as guests".

Other representative musical songs include Jasmine, Shepherd's Song, Orchid Grass, Little Cabbage, Orchid Flower, Plane Taro Walking in Jiangzhou, Su Wu Shepherd Sheep, Beijing's Golden Mountain, Beijing has a golden sun, Fengyang Song, Fengyang Flower Drums, Harvesting the Autumn, Big Red Jujubes, Sweet and Fragrant, and so on.

Tibetan music

The Tibetans are a people who can sing and dance well, and their songs have beautiful and broad melodies. Tibetan music can be broadly divided into Buddhist music and folk music. The most famous of the Buddhist music is the wordless chanting tunes sung by lamas.

Tibetan folk songs are loud and clear, sounds like a plateau blue sky vast weather, melodious, but also to the five main. Songs and dances are in the form of "Guo Harmony" and "Guo Zhuo" (pots and pans), etc. Some elements of Tibetan music have been adopted by the Chinese. Some elements of Tibetan music have been absorbed by Han Chinese and Western music. Some Han Chinese songwriters have imitated the characteristics of Tibetan music to create songs such as "Strolling in the New Town" and "Tibetan Plateau". In recent years, Tibetan songs in Tibet have also incorporated elements of other music. Famous Tibetan singers include Tsetan Drolma and Han Hongwai, who mainly sings Chinese songs, as well as a large number of singers who are well known in Tibet, such as Rongzhong Erjia, Yadong, and Qiongxue Drolma.

For formal theater, the traditional Tibetan opera "King Gesar" has now been excavated and performed.

Manchu music

China's northeast and Beijing are home to the Manchu. The most famous Manchu folk instrument is the octagonal drum, which originated in the Qing Dynasty. Works such as the Manchu lullaby "Yoyoza" are famous and are often covered in modern Chinese.

Mongolian music

Mongolian folk songs are divided into "long-toned folk songs" and "short-toned folk songs". The "long tune" has many meaningless harmonic words and long singing voice, with the style of the grassland. The most characteristic musical instrument is the horse-head qin, a stringed instrument, which is named after a horse's head that is usually carved on the column.

Music of the Zhuang People

Guangxi, a Zhuang-inhabited area, is the hometown of folk songs, where young men and women often sing to each other, and some people even say that Zhuang people spend more time singing than talking in their lives. Zhuang folk songs are basically similar in style to Han Chinese music, with a pentatonic scale. The lyrics have an obvious counterpoint format, while the content is expressed in symbols and metaphors, focusing on communication in life, and sometimes the lyrics quote classical Chinese stories and allusions. Zhuang music can be glimpsed in the movie musical "Liu Sanjie".

Dai music

The Dai music is similar to that of Burma and Thailand in South Asia, with gentle and soft tunes, and the typical instruments are the hulusi (gourd silk) and the elephant-footed drums, whose distinctive tone is the Dai style of music as soon as it is played.

Naxi Ancient Music

Naxi Ancient Music is the music played among the Naxi elders in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, and is said to have been imported from the Central Plains during the Ming Dynasty, and because of the inconvenient transportation in the area and the lack of interaction with the outside world, it has always been passed down in its original form and is now played by a group of old people's bands and is cultivating its successors, and it is a living fossil of the music of the 14th century in China. It is a living fossil of China's 14th century music and has received wide attention from the music world.

Dong music

The "Great Song" of the Dong is the only folk song system in China that uses harmony, basically female a cappella, with the harmony of the voices harmonizing in a very harmonious way, which has caused an international sensation and won many prizes.

Uyghur music

Uyghur music is basically an Arabian music style, which pays great attention to the rhythm, and the tambourine can be used to play dozens of different rhythms, and the musical instruments are mainly Du'ital and Rhevav which are suitable for playing on the horse, and the biggest one is Dombra. The Uyghur's traditional music, the Twelve Mukams, is all-encompassing and is the source of much folk music.

Tajik music

Tajik music is quite different from that of the Han Chinese, making good use of chromaticism, with a varied melody, like that of a mountain eagle high in the sky. The most typical is the song by composer Lei Zhenbang for the movie "Guests on the Iceberg," which makes complete use of the melody of a Tajik folk song.

Korean music

Korean music is basically the same as that of North and South Korea, with the main instruments being the long drum and the Gayageum. The Gayageum is similar to the zither of ancient China, but smaller than the modern zither, and is played differently, on the knees of the person who sits in a cross-legged position. The music melody has its own unique style.