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What is the mountain song called in the tea picking area

Tea Songs.

Shan songs are called tea songs in the tea-picking area, and there are two general themes, one is love and the other is labor. Because tea picking is mainly the business of village women and nuns, there are many love songs in the tea songs.

Songs of the mountains are songs that people sing impromptu when they are working in the fields or expressing their emotions. It has a wide range of contents, short structure, crisp tunes, simple, high-pitched emotions, and free rhythms.

Shan songs, mainly concentrated in the plateau, the hinterland, mountain townships, fishing villages of the Han ethnic areas and minority areas, prevalent in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other regions . The descendants of the ancient Baiyue ethnic group in the Lingnan region are famous for their good songs and their ability to sing, and mountain songs are one of the very unique ethnic cultures, the history of which can be traced back to the Songs of the Yue People during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and the Han, Zhuang, Dong, Maonan, Mulao, Shui, Yao, Miao, Yi, Gelao, She, and Buyei ethnic groups today all have the tradition of singing mountain songs. It has been circulated extremely widely and is extremely rich.