The culturally rich Taiwanese folk song culture

Taiwanese culture consists of the local Hakka culture and the later continuous influx of immigrants mainly from Fujian, this system penetrates into all aspects of the city's culture, the famous Taiwanese folk songs as an example, it is through the composition of the Fulao folk songs and Hakka folk songs. The foundation for the later far-reaching Taiwanese pop music.

Taiwan compatriots like to use folk songs to express their inner feelings, singing labor, singing love, singing life. Whether it's the blazing sun in the sky, or the moonlit night, or whether it's the mountains, the plains, or the fishing villages, the tea plantations, people often hear bursts of melodious folk songs drifting in the wind, but the sound of their voices, do not see their people, people are refreshed, intoxicated in the embrace of nature.

Indeed, Taiwan is not only the home of theater and the island of music, but also a treasure trove of Chinese folk songs. There are many types of folk songs in Taiwan. In addition to the various mountain folk songs that are popular among the aboriginal compatriots, the Fulao and Hakka folk songs are mainly popular in the areas where the Han Chinese people live.

Folao folk songs

Folao folk songs refer to the folk songs sung in Minnan language. Most of the Folao folk songs belong to the minor key system, and the way of singing belongs to the monotonous tune singing method, with four stanzas of four lines each, each line mostly consisting of seven characters (a few of which are five characters), and the content of which focuses on singing about love, and the next one is about labor, comicality, narration, or nursery rhymes, and so on. In addition to the traditional folk songs passed down from ancient times have fixed lyrics, mostly by the singer of the scene, the form of lively, natural and easy, generally speaking, love songs and narrative songs mostly with seven words.

The style of Fulao folk songs is characterized by lyrical and sad melodies, as well as comic songs with lively rhythms and strong irony, and tunes in pentatonic scales. The folk songs of Hengchun still preserve the simple style of Fulao folk songs, while most of the folk songs of Lanyang Plain have been absorbed into the song repertoire of Guezai Opera, which has become a popular local drama in Taiwan.

Due to the differences in living environment, the current Fuliuli folk songs in Fujian and Taiwan have also produced different artistic styles. Some people believe that the folk songs in southern Fujian are more artistic, while the Fuliuli folk songs in Taiwan are more popular and easy to sing. However, regardless of the differences in the styles of Fuliuli folk songs across the strait, they are all rooted in the soil of Chinese culture, **** with the writing of a new chapter of national culture.

Hakka folk songs

Hakka folk songs are divided into two kinds: "Hakka Mountain Songs" and "Tea Picking Songs", which are sung in the Hakka language. They were introduced to Taiwan by Hakka immigrants from the eastern part of Guangdong Province and the western part of Fujian Province, and are generally popular in the hilly areas of Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Miaoli in the north, Kaohsiung and Pingtung in the south. Kaohsiung and the hilly areas of Pingtung.

The Hakka songs are very different in style from the folk songs of the Fulao family, which belong to the "minor key system", and the folk songs of the "minor key system" are mostly the "songs of the alleys" of the towns and cities of the plains. "while the Hakka folk songs are purely "songs of the mountains", sung in the hilly areas, the lyrical color is more intense, the "wild taste" is more sufficient.

The Hakka folk songs are mainly about love, but also reflect collective production and labor, and their tunes are pentatonic scale, and the rhythm is soothing and gentle, melodious and lingering, full of rhyme, very beautiful and beautiful, and the current popularity of the Meizhou region of the Guangdong Province, the tune of the mountain song is more or less the same. The Hakka songs are also composed of four lines each, with each line consisting of seven words.

The most commendable thing is that the Hakka songs use puns, metaphors, substitutions and other techniques to express their inner feelings and express some kind of deep meaning, which is very subtle and intriguing, with a strong artistic charm, and gives people a beautiful literary enjoyment. So every good Hakka mountain song is a good "seven-character jingle".

Most Hakka people live in mountainous areas, and when they sing songs, they often sing to each other across a mountain or a river, singing without previews for fear that others will not hear clearly, and therefore, to attract each other's attention, most of the Hakka songs are the first two lines of the "Poetry" in the "Xing" technique, that is, with the help of other things as a song, to play a kind of "beginning", and to make the song more interesting. The first two lines of the Hakka songs are mostly about the "Xing" technique in the Book of Songs, which uses other things as the beginning of the song, and plays the role of a kind of "door" and "prelude", while the key content is in the last two lines.

Hakka songs can be sung solo or in pairs, and in addition to the traditional songs with fixed lyrics, singing Hakka songs requires a high degree of skill in improvising, expressing emotions, and making up songs.