Representative Songs of Miao Folk Songs

The Miao people have always attached great importance to folk education. Not only do elders teach by word and example, but they also often use various songs to educate their children and grandchildren, and the persuasive songs are the ones that embody the family ethical and moral education of the Miao society, which mainly include the "Song of Family Discipline", "Song of Teaching the Son", "Song of Confucius' Metaphors for the World", "Song of Raising a Child", "Song of Persuading a Husband", etc. The "Song of Family Discipline" is about the traditional family customs, family teachings and family laws.

The Miao people attach great importance to family education, and the "Family Training Song" is about the traditional family customs, family education and family law of the Miao people, which includes both parental instructions and regulations governing family members, as well as rules that must be observed by family members.

"Teach the children song" is the parents advise their children's song, educate their children to study hard from childhood, listen to their parents, strict discipline as a person; "persuade the husband song" is the wife to advise her husband's ballad, a husband to be hard-working, the second persuade their husbands to be upright, and the third persuade their husbands to abstain from alcohol and not gambling; "on the emperor song" is a story about the deeds of the five emperor of the Miao people in Hainan (the five surnames) ballad, but it is also of educational significance, which It reminds the Miao children and grandchildren not to forget the kindness of their ancestors, and always remember the teachings of their ancestors diligently, and do more good deeds.