What are the three types of folk songs?

Chant (labor chant), folk songs, minor (ditty).

1, chant: chant is a folk song that people create, sing and directly serve in the process of manual labor. Its music is solid and powerful, rough and heroic, and has close relations with workers. Chant has two functions: practicality and performance.

2. Folk songs: Folk songs are produced in Shan Ye's working life, with high-pitched, loud and free rhythm, and have the characteristics of straightforward and free emotional expression. Folk songs are produced in a vast natural environment, and people improvise to express their inner feelings or convey affection to distant people.

3. minor: minor is a folk song produced in people's daily life on occasions such as rest, entertainment and celebration. It is the most extensive and universal, with the characteristics of regular form, diverse forms of expression and meticulous twists and turns.

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The significance of labor chant:

As a main genre of folk songs, labor chant has been produced as early as the primitive times when people began to engage in collective labor, and it gradually disappeared until some machine replaced some collective labor in modern society.

For thousands of years, it has played a huge social function in the struggle with the working people and nature, and created one miracle after another for human beings to overcome nature.

At the same time, the chant is the earliest flower of spiritual art produced by the combination and collision between man and nature and labor. Therefore, it has eternal historical and cultural value.

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