Top Ten Best Folk Songs in Yunnan

The top ten best folk songs in Yunnan are as follows:

The list of the top ten representative works of Yunnan folk songs includes Guests from afar, Running Rivers, Phoenix Bamboo in the Moonlight, Embroidered Pocket, A Beautiful Place, Ma Shan Ge, Guessing Tune, Moon Dancing Song, Horse Racing and Old Driver Taking Me. Yunnan folk songs are bold, passionate and lively, and the lyrics fully reflect the pure and excellent local folk customs.

Yunnan folk songs are different from Yunnan mountain operas. Yunnan folk song is a whole song, and Yunnan mountain drama is a song inserted into the plot. Because of its unique art, Yunnan folk songs are called "invincible divine comedy", "king of songs" and "any song wins millions" by the audience.

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Folk songs are improvised songs when people work in the fields or express their feelings. 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 mainly distributed in plateau, inland, mountain villages, fishing villages and ethnic minority areas. It is widely distributed and rich in reserves. 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. In recent years, some musicians and scholars believe that pastoral songs, hymns and banquet songs sung by herdsmen on the grassland, fishing songs and boat songs sung by fishermen on rivers, lakes and seas, and "crying wedding songs" sung at weddings in some places in the south.