The types of folk songs are the unique names of local folk songs in different regions. Common types include "Xintianyou" in northern Shaanxi, "Mountain Song" in Shanxi, "Mountain Diao" in Inner Mongolia, Qinghai and Gansu "Hua'er" and "Youth" from other places, Hubei's "Five Sentences", Sichuan's "Morning Song", Anhui's "Zhuijinghong", etc. Still popular today are Meng Jiang's female tunes, such as "The Moon Bends over the Nine Provinces"; beautiful flower-cut tunes, such as "Back to My Mother's Home"; and embroidered purse tunes, such as "Walking to the West Exit". For example, the folk songs of Zhangjiajie include "Sister Hua", "Little Little Aunt", "One Sparrow, One Head", etc. There are also "Wangniu Folk Song" of the Tujia Nationality in Guizhou, "Ga August" of the Dong Nationality, and "Zhuangjia" of the Zhuang Nationality. Sister" etc. Others include "Dazhi Folk Songs Crossing the Horizontal Row", "Midu Folk Songs", "Pairing Birds", "When Will Sophora Flowers Bloom", "Malan Folk Songs", "Folk Songs Sing Spring Every Year", "Folk Songs Marriage", " "Unforgettable Stream" etc. There are love songs, labor songs, current political songs, ritual songs, life songs, etc. For example, labor songs include "Cow Calling Song", "Cow Herding Song", "Song of Breaking Stones", "Carrying the Load Hao Zi", "Song of Sowing Fields" , "Zuo Tian Ge", etc.; current political songs include "Good Reputation for Resisting Japan and Saving the Nation", "Moonlight", "Song of the Young Man", "Red Army Discipline Song", "Turn Over Song", etc.; ceremonial songs include "Song of Jue Shu", "Festival Songs", "Etiquette Songs", "Ceremonial Songs", etc.; love songs include "Wonderful Mother", "Mother of Raw Water", "The Fragrance Blows by the Wind", "Look at me, look at you, look at me" "Go away" and so on; life songs include "Song of Encouraging Filial Piety", "Song of Gu Niu", "Asking for A Heart", "Blooming in the Garden", etc.
In the economically developed cultural circle of southern Fujian, Dehua folk songs are a rare carrier of local culture. People use folk songs to praise the new society and new life. Folk songs in mountainous rural areas are sung everywhere, enriching the cultural life of rural people and playing an important role in local folk customs and etiquette activities, local publicity and foreign exchanges. "Xingguo County" is located in the southern part of Jiangxi Province and the northern part of southern Gansu, and is under the jurisdiction of Ganzhou City. During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Wu founded the county in the ninth year of Jiahe (AD 236), and it was first called Pingyang County. In the seventh year of the Taiping Xingguo in the Song Dynasty (AD 982), the county was named after the reign of "Xingguo". It has a history of more than a thousand years. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhongshu Ling, the Duke of Yue State, Zhong Shaojing, succeeded King Yaoqi in calligraphy, and his name was passed down to the world; in the Song Dynasty, there were Li Qian and Li Pu, father and son, a family of seven Jinshi, both of whom were famous for their Neo-Confucian poetry and prose...History and culture The accumulation is extremely rich. The county governs 25 townships (towns) and 304 administrative villages with a population of 730,000. The territory is mountainous and hilly. Centipede Mountain, Dawu Mountain, Fujian Mountain and Qin'e Mountain are divided into the east, north and west, and Fangshi Ridge stretches across the county. In the center, there is only one corner facing south, and the terrain is low and flat. There are dense forests on the mountain. In ancient times, most of the mountain people were woodcutter or half-farmer and half-woodcutter.
According to legend, Xingguo folk songs "began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty, and have been passed down from generation to generation to this day." In the Xingguo County Chronicle, there is a record of the "Tai Shang Hermit" singing folk songs in the Tang Dynasty; the great scholar Su Dongpo of the Song Dynasty also He left behind a good line: "The wooden guest in the mountains interprets and recites poems". It is said among the people that the folk song of Xingguo was created by Luo Yin, a retired scholar in the late Tang Dynasty. There is still a folk song that has been circulated for a long time among the people: he can sing folk songs and refute songs, and he can weave silk and silk. One sentence brother. It can be seen that Xingguo folk songs have a history of at least more than a thousand years. Xingguo folk songs were originally songs that mountain people sang to each other in the fields and forests. However, in the middle of the Song Dynasty, a feudal superstitious activity called "Tiaoji" spread from the Hakka people in western Fujian to Xingguo. The original meaning of dancing is to pray for good luck, ward off evil, and bless peace and prosperity. It has a unique set of formulas for drawing characters. However, in order to attract more audiences, the clever master introduced the popular folk songs of Xingguo into dancing, making it more popular. It has two parts: one part is ritual activities, and the other part is entertainment, that is, singing folk songs. As a result, Xingguo folk songs were sung indoors. Folk songs, along with characters, plots, stories, performances, and male and female Jiang Gong and Gan Po (men dressing up as women), then gradually penetrated into folk customs such as temple fairs, weddings, house building, birthday celebrations, etc. Active.
At this point, Xingguo folk songs have developed in two parallel ways: one is impromptu singing in the mountains and fields, and the other is indoor entertainment folk songs by professional singers.
During the Soviet area, Xingguo folk songs became a powerful battlefield propaganda weapon, writing a glorious chapter of "one folk song for three divisions", and a song "The Good Style of Cadres in the Soviet Area" was sung throughout the Soviet area. After the founding of New China, Xingguo folk songs became even more famous for promoting the Agrarian Revolution and singing about New China. In 1996, the Ministry of Culture officially named Xingguo the "Hometown of Folk Songs". The folk songs of the She people in Jingning are oral literature created by the people of the She people in Jingning during their struggle for production and life. They are an important part of the traditional culture of the She people. She people love folk songs, they use songs to speak for themselves and communicate their feelings; they use songs to discuss matters, promote good and punish evil; they use songs to convey knowledge and compete with wisdom. It is sung not only during weddings and festivals, but also during productive labor, entertaining guests, leisurely resting, and talking about love. Even during funerals and sorrows, songs are used to replace crying and express one's heart. In the old society, in their struggle against the ruling class, the She people often used folk songs as weapons to express their hatred of the oppressors and their pursuit of beauty. After liberation, revolutionary folk songs and hymns whose main content was praising the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the new socialist life reflected the new ideological outlook of the She people and were qualitatively different from traditional folk songs.
Folk songs generally have four lines of seven-character rhyme as one line and four sentences as one line. There are also a few lyrics where the first sentence has three or five characters, which is very rhyming, and the last word of the third sentence must be in a oblique tone. Folk songs often sing in "false voice", including solo singing, duet singing and chorus singing. Rarely accompanied by action and music. Famous singers include Lan Chuncui (female), Lei Shilian, Lan Zhenshui, Lei Longhua (female), Lei Tuoyin (female), Lei Yongqing, Lan Rongchang, Lan Yugen, Lan Peiju (female), etc. .
She folk songs include narrative songs, custom songs, labor songs, love songs, seasonal songs, novel songs, revolutionary folk songs, children's songs, miscellaneous songs and other types. There are more than 3,000 hand-written song books in Jingning, 2 More than ten thousand songs. 4 compilations based on local historical facts, including "The Drinking Game", "The Salt Fighting", "Old Songs", and "Mrs. Tang's Songs" were compiled into the "Collection of Chinese Folk Literature·Zhejiang Province Volume", and there are 935 wedding customary songs of the She people. There are 642 elegy songs, compiled and printed by the She Nationality Folk Literature and Art Society of Zhejiang Province.
"Eighteen-year-old girl learns to plant fields", the excrement hole faces backward and the face faces forward; don't laugh at the merchants on the road, plant the fields for my husband. Folk songs of the She people are the oral literature of the She people and an important part of the culture of the She people. The She people only have a language but no writing, so they often use Chinese characters to record She phonetics and hand-copy many songbooks. In the old society, She people did not have the opportunity to receive cultural education, so they regarded learning and singing as an important cultural life. Therefore, before the 1960s, the popularity of folk songs was relatively high. Songs were often used to speak for themselves and communicate with each other; they used songs to discuss matters, promote good and punish evil; The custom of antiphonal songs for weddings and funerals.
The folk songs of the She people are composed of seven words and one sentence, four lines to one, and they pay attention to the rhyme of the She language. Many people can improvise and sing, and some singers can sing duets for one or two nights without repeating them. When singing, use a "false voice" with sounds such as "婷, 罗, ah, yi, le" and other sounds. When learning songs, sing without adding falsetto, it is called "flat singing". Each county has its own tune when singing happy songs, and the whole nation has the same tune when singing sad songs. The forms of singing include solo singing, duet singing, and chorus singing, and are rarely accompanied by movements and instrumental music. When working in the mountains, I often sing to drive away loneliness when I am alone. If someone hears it in the distance and recognizes that it is someone of the opposite sex of similar age, they often pick up the song and develop it into a love-making duet. People often sing antiphonally on the mountain, so some people call She Township in Jingning a sea of ??songs, so some people call She songs folk songs.
The above are all original folk songs. There are also some such as "Folk Songs Are Like Spring Rivers", which is the theme song of "Liu Sanjie", which was later adapted. Yufeng Mountain in Liuzhou City, Guangxi is the birthplace of Liuzhou folk songs. It is said that it is here that Liu Sanjie, the song fairy of the Zhuang ethnic group, became a fairy by riding a fish and flying into the sky. Liuzhou folk songs have a long history and have gone through vicissitudes of life since the Tang Dynasty. To this day, every holiday, there are singers spontaneously singing folk songs together at the foot of Yufeng Mountain, beside Xiaolongtan, and in the People's Square. There are many people around to listen, and the scene is cheerful and lively. The ancient cultural form of singing folk songs is still preserved in modern cities, which is rare in cities across the country.
Liuzhou folk songs include solo singing, joint singing, duet singing, etc. Among them, duet singing is the most commonly used and distinctive form of Liuzhou traditional folk songs.
Duet singing, commonly known as antiphonal singing, is a form of competition in which singers or singing groups compete with each other to test their singing talents. Therefore, it is also called song competition and ring competition, and it has a strong confrontational and competitive nature. Every time there is a song fair, you sing and I sing in antiphonal style, improvising, performing on the spot, and speaking out into songs. The lyrics are witty and lively, and the songs are quick and sharp, often making listeners laugh.