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Classification of folk songs?

(1) Plateau Folk Songs: Folk songs are one of the representative genres of China folk songs, and they are short folk songs that people sing at will in their individual labor life, such as grazing, chopping firewood, carrying loads, weeding and walking mountains.

(2) labor song: commonly known as labor song? "Prison" or? Whistle is one of the important genres of China folk songs, which is widely spread in various provinces and regions of China. Its main function is to unify everyone's labor rhythm, coordinate labor actions and adjust people's labor emotions. All kinds of productive labor produced all kinds of labor songs.

(3) Rice area? "Tian Ge": The Yangtze River Basin and the Pearl River Basin in China are one of the largest rice growing areas in the world. Since ancient times, rice farmers have been used to singing for fun when transplanting rice seedlings, weeding, transporting water and digging land. These folk songs have various names, and are usually called Tian Ge.

(4) towns? "Minor": Minor (or ditty) is a genre of folk songs widely spread in towns and markets. For a long time, through the processing and tempering of professional and semi-professional folk artists in cities and towns, a series of theme features have been formed, such as unified structure, regular rhythm, delicate tunes and diverse theme contents.

Songs with their own national style created by a nation in ancient or modern times refer to the traditional songs of each nation. Since ancient times, the ancestors of every nation have their own songs. Most of these songs are passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation and from generation to generation.

Today, most of the folk songs we talk about refer to the folk songs in the pop music era, which are mainly accompanied by acoustic guitars and sung in a natural and frank way to sing people's simple life feelings.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-folk songs