What are the classification and musical characteristics of Dongxiang folk songs?

Dongxiang folk songs include chant, flowers (teenagers), banquet songs, wine songs, playing tunes and children's songs.

Hua 'er, also known as a teenager of Dongxiang nationality, is also called "folk song", which is the most distinctive folk song of Dongxiang nationality. Dongxiang flower is a branch of the famous Hehuang flower, but its style is rougher and more violent than that of Han and Hui flowers. Banquet songs are songs sung at weddings; Jiuqu is a song sung when guessing boxing orders; Banquet songs and wine songs are called "family songs". Major is a humorous song with rap style, which is often interspersed between two banquet songs.

Dongxiang traditional folk songs mostly adopt pentatonic scale; Melody is often centered on the triad of Gong, Shang and Jiao. Prefer homophonic repetition and highlight progressive rotation.