Outline the distribution of folk songs in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the south-central style area?

Music history of the so-called "Jingchu western sound", "Chu sound", "western song" and so on mostly refers to the Jingchu region of the folk songs. The famous "Ying in the field song", may be today's Hubei popular "weed gongs and drums", because the ancient capital of Chu was called Ying. Today, the popular folk song genres in the district are mainly mountain songs, ditties, labor songs, custom songs and so on.

Songs in the mountainous areas of southwestern Hubei and the plains and hills of central and northern Hunan are the most distinctive; Hakka songs in Gannan and Xingguo songs are also widely circulated. There is also a genre of mountain songs accompanied by gongs and drums, "Horn Song", is a mountainous area of Hunan Province, such as the opening of the grass in the labor of the song master sings, Huaihua area called "Chashan drums", Yueyang area is called "Luoluodong", and also known as the "opening of the drums "

General

General ditties are abundant everywhere, such as Hubei's "ten embroidery tune", "car water love song", "little son-in-law", Hunan's "wash the heart of the vegetables", "Copper Song", silk string ditties, Jiangxi's tea song; song and dance ditties around the lanterns singing and dancing ditties, lanterns and lanterns of the drums and lanterns in Jiangxi, tea basket lamps; and so on.

Labor trumpets are rich everywhere, especially in Eshinan Xilingxia boatman trumpet, Qingjiang River put card trumpet and Hunan Lishui boatman trumpet is the most characteristic.

As the hinterland of ancient Chu culture and Ba Shu culture, the historical and cultural deposition of this area is particularly rich, which is expressed in the traditional folk songs, that is, with various customary activities as the background, or attached to the customary activities of the folk songs are particularly rich in variety and quantity. For example, "filial piety songs", "drum basin songs", "coffin touring", "yin songs", and "wedding songs", which are based on funeral customs, are found in various parts of Hubei. The customary songs against the background of marriage customs include the "Marriage Songs" of southwestern Hunan, or "Sitting Song Hall", "Sitting Garden", "Marriage Accompanying Songs", "Marriage Delivery Songs", "Marriage Delivery Songs", "Marriage Delivery Songs", and "Marriage Songs". or "Sitting Song Hall", "Sitting Garden", "Accompanying Marriage" and "Sending Marriage". Certain festivals and folklore sung during the special folk songs also belong to the custom songs, such as the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race at Zigui in Southwest Hubei, "Swimming in the River", "Invocation Song" and so on. Hubei's "grass-gathering gongs and drums" are also known as "Fanfan cavity", "playing a single drum", "Yang gongs and drums", etc., although they are morphologically both mountain songs and songs. Although it has the characteristics of both mountain songs and bugles, according to the background of its singing, it should also be categorized as a custom song.

Sitting in the Garden