Ten of the most famous Hmong songs

Our Name is Miao, People of Miao Mountain, Miao Dance, Deep in the Miao My Home, I'm Not Ayudo, Sisters in Bloom, Golden Miao Mountain, On the Lusheng Ground, The Beauty of Miao Township, and The Days of the People of Miao Mountain.

Miao folk songs are prevalent in western Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan. According to their contents, Miao folk songs can be divided into several categories, such as travel songs (love songs), wine songs, bitter songs, anti-government songs, funeral songs, labor songs, current affairs songs, children's songs, riddle songs, etc., and their tunes are different from each other.

Artistic Characteristics

Hmong songs have distinctive features, with neatly arranged lyrics and a strict structure, mostly in seven-word and four-sentence patterns, and a few with three-word and seven-sentence intervals.

Singing form of individual solo, two people accompanying the chorus, chorus, etc., like to use the rounds of question-and-answer chanting, or narrative, or riddle, the rhythm of the staccato and moderate, the tone of the long and weak. Music tunes are mostly clean, high, euphemistic, singing a strong nasal tone is a major feature of the Miao ballads. Miao folk song tunes to the short before and long after the rhythm of the main, generally can be divided into two categories of high tone and flat tone.

High-accented tunes are mostly sung in the field with a combination of true and false tones, with a high and broad tune, large melodic ups and downs, and a strong rhythm, which can be sung and danced, and are mostly used for production and labor, social life, love and other folk songs of the mountain song type of chanting.

Ping accent tune is low, melodic ups and downs are not big, the range is generally within the octave ups and downs, the rhythm is slow and free, the lyric is long, there are a lot of staccato places, staccato tone is long and weak, the aftermath of the sound is unending, it will take quite a long time to finish a song, mostly used for rituals, marriage, rituals and other customs of folk song chant.