The significance of the inheritance of folk ditties

Among the various genres of Chinese folk songs, the ditty plays a very important role. On the one hand, it draws nutrients from the genres of mountain songs and bugles, and processes and refines part of the repertoire so as to make it more mature artistically and to become a part of the minstrelsy; at the same time, some of the minstrelsy repertoire has often become the cantata of the operas and operatic songs, as well as the themes and songs of folk music in the process of spreading. For example, "Sichuan Qingyin", "Macheng Tune", "Sizhou Tune" and "Flying a Kite" are all developed on the basis of the original minstrelsy; "Dressing Table", "Embroidered Red Shoes" and "Cutting Flowers" in Guangdong music; and "Jasmine Flower" in the "Eight Sets of Songs" in Shanxi are also based on the minstrelsy of the same name. The "Jasmine Flower" in the "eight sets" of Shanxi is also based on the ditty of the same name. In short, in the development of folk music, the ditty can be said to be a kind of folk song with a very wide mass and certain specialized characteristics.

The content of social life reflected in the ditties was extremely wide. It is not subject to the constraints of a particular social class and specific labor environment, it reflects not only the peasants, but also urban small craftsmen and other laborers, merchants, citizens, and even kung-fu geisha, peddlers, monks and nuns, wandering beggars, and other classes of love and marriage, parting love, local conditions, entertainment and games, nature, and folk stories, etc., and a lot of the ditty's lyrics are often capable of highly summarized and poignant. The lyrics of many ditties often touch on all aspects of social life with a high degree of generalization and sharp criticism, thus giving the theme a wide social significance.