Classification of folk songs

There are many kinds of folk songs, and there are different classifications due to different classification standards. From the content, combined with some special functions, it can be roughly divided into five categories: labor songs, ritual songs, current political songs, life songs and love songs. Because the clients are different, there are nursery rhymes. The main content is to reflect the people's understanding and attitude towards certain political events and figures. It has high literature value. In ancient China, many political ballads appeared in the form of nursery rhymes, and their written records were more common in the Five Elements Records in the history books of various dynasties.

Political ballads can be roughly divided into three categories:

(1) The songs that satirize the rulers are the most numerous.

(2) Songs praising the patriotism of honest officials

(3) The songs of peasant uprisings in past dynasties reflect the most full awakening of peasants and the strongest political color. According to some scholars, it probably originated from the alternation of monogamy between the couple's marriage and the husband's residence. It is one of the most numerous and widely spread folk songs, and plays a very important role in the love life of working people, especially ethnic minorities. Can be roughly divided into the following categories:

(1) pour out your love for each other, indicating the criteria for choosing lovers, such as "silk thread is the best way to approach the bridge" and "gold and silver are not the best".

(2) Express feelings of parting and missing, such as "you in the eye in the picture" and "harmony as one person".

(3) express faithful love that never leaves, such as "I would rather be beaten than lose my job" and "go out to the yamen hand in hand".

(4) Admonish critical love songs, such as: "Learn from amaranth, but don't learn from Chili black heart" and "Miss Lang is so sad".

⑤ A large number of derailed songs, such as "Home flowers are not as good as wild flowers", although they contain some unhealthy thoughts and feelings, often show the yearning and pursuit of a happy life for people deprived of normal love life. It was not widely used until the May 4th Movement in China. In ancient times, they were called "songs of obedient children" and "children's songs". Children's songs can be divided into narrow sense and broad sense. In a narrow sense, it refers to songs created by children themselves and taught by adults, but the content conforms to children's physiological and psychological characteristics and understanding ability. Broadly speaking, it also includes songs taught by mothers and grandmothers, which reflect the feelings of adults, especially women, in the old society, but are sung by children. The so-called "nursery rhymes" with the nature of current political ballads are generally not real nursery rhymes. Children's songs can be roughly divided into three categories according to their functions: playing children's songs, teaching children's songs and tongue twisters to train language skills.

The characteristics of children's songs are as follows: first, the language form is suitable for children's habit of speaking and pronouncing, and they all use short sentences, especially three sentences, which are easy to use. Second, the content is suitable for children's thinking characteristics, simple, simple and vivid, and some are full of magical colors, which are suitable for children's psychological characteristics.