What are the three categories of Han folk songs

Han folk songs are divided into three categories: labor bugles, mountain songs and ditties.

Labor Horns: Carrying Horns, Engineering Horns, Agricultural Horns, Workshop Horns, Boat Fishing Horns.

Songs: grazing songs, rice-planting songs, general songs [albatross, flowers, mountain songs, climbing songs, God songs]

Songs: 1. Songs evolved from the Ming and Qing dynasties (Meng Jiangnu, flowers, embroidered wallet, cut indigo flowers) 2. local ditties. 3. Song and dance ditties (flower drums, lamps, lanterns, tea picking, rice-planting songs, running dry boats)

Knowledge Expansion:

1. Types of Labor Horns

Handling Horns: Northern Jiangsu "picking the burden is not afraid of the bend of the flat burden", Sichuan "boarding trucks Horns"; Engineering Horns: Sichuan "ramming song", Hunan "hit the ramrod song"; Agricultural Horns: Haining, Zhejiang Province, "car water Horns", Fuling, Zhejiang Province "round field horn"; workshop horn: Zigong, Sichuan Province "artificial horn"; fishing boat horn: Shaanxi Province "Yellow River Boatman Song", Sichuan "Sichuan River Boatman Horn".

2. Characteristics of the Labor Horn

(1) Musical character, method of expression: solid and powerful, bold and bold, natural and simple.

(2) Lyrics: real words, lead singer. Imaginary words, helpers.

(3) Rhythm: fixed, cycle repeated.

(4) Singing form: one leader and the crowd, but also solo, duet and unison.

(5) Song structure: short and simple, repetitive.

3. Types of Mountain Songs

(1) Grazing Mountain Songs

(2) Rice-planting Mountain Songs

(3) General Mountain Songs

Mountain Songs are divided into: High Cavity Mountain Songs, Flat Cavity Mountain Songs, and Short Cavity Mountain Songs according to different singing methods.

4. Characteristics of Shan Songs

Lyrics of Shan Songs: Reflecting all aspects of rural life, improvisation, lyrics are mainly in seven-word phrases, with more use of liner notes, the most common use of liner notes in Shan Songs, and the combination of liner notes with the free prolongation of the tone or dragging of the cavity, forming the unique characteristics of Shan Songs.

The music of the songs is unrestrained and loud and clear. The free prolongation of the tone and the trailing accent are widely used. The combination of free prolongation and the call-out phrases at the beginning and end of the song forms the front or back cadence, which is a unique feature of the song.

Singing forms: solo singing is the most common, but there are also duets, several people singing together, singing in unison, and one leader and many people singing in unison.

Song structure: most of the songs are short, simple and diversified. Density and lyricism are combined. In the southern mountain songs, there are more single sections with four phrases.