Folk songs can be divided into three categories: chants, folk songs, and minor tunes.
1. Haozi:
Labor chants are called "haozi" for short. They are often called "haozi" in the north and "haozi" in the south. Chant is a folk song that directly accompanies physical labor and closely matches the rhythm of labor. It is produced in the labor process, directly serves production labor, and truly reflects the labor situation and the mental outlook of workers. Its musical image is rough, heroic, solid and powerful, and is an indispensable organic part of some physical labor.
2. Folk songs:
It refers to songs that people sing impromptu while working in the fields or expressing emotions. It has extensive content, short structure, hearty melody, simple emotion, high pitch and free rhythm. Folk songs are mainly distributed in plateaus, inland areas, mountain villages, fishing villages and other areas. It is widely circulated and rich in reserves. Folk songs are one of the basic genres of Chinese folk songs. It generally refers to folk songs with free rhythm and long melody that are spread in plateau, mountainous and hilly areas and are sung by people for their own entertainment while traveling, chopping firewood, grazing, mowing grass or at folk singing parties.
3. Minor tune:
A type of Chinese Han folk song genre. Generally refers to Han folk songs and dances popular in urban markets. After being passed down through the ages, it has undergone a lot of artistic processing and has the characteristics of balanced structure, regular rhythm, delicate and gentle melody. In the works of some scholars, folk songs are subdivided into chants, folk songs, pastoral songs, field Yangko, boat songs, nursery rhymes, minor tunes, custom ritual songs, etc. Genre classification helps to understand and study the relationship between folk songs and people's lives, the social functions of folk songs, as well as musical expression methods and characteristics.
China’s ethnic folk music is an ancient and evergreen towering tree in the forest of ethnic music in the world. It is the pride of our Chinese descendants. It is rich in bright flowers and fruits, and has a profound and long history. Tradition, unique and diverse color styles, stand tall in the east of the world. China's national folk music is a vast ocean. Every nation has its own folk songs that it is proud of and has spread for a long time. Folk songs are an integral part of the splendid culture of the Chinese nation. The 56 ethnic groups in the Chinese nation have ancient histories and long history. civilization and splendid culture. The excellent folk songs bred by the fertile soil of China are simple, melodious, bright, beautiful, melodious, touching and fascinating. Like other arts, the art of folk songs is equally broad and profound, and also has a unique rhyme and strong vitality.
Types of folk songs:
1. Plateau folk songs. Folk songs are one of the representative genres of Chinese folk songs. They are short folk songs that people sing casually in their individual working lives such as grazing, chopping firewood, carrying burdens, hoeing, and walking in the mountains. The singer is not restricted by the rhythm of the work he is doing. He sings whenever he feels like it, and his singing style is full of freedom, unrestrainedness, stretch and long-lasting characteristics. Chinese folk songs are widely spread, but they are mainly concentrated in the southwest, northwest and northern plateaus and mountainous areas.
2. Labor chant. Labor chants, commonly known as zizi or whistles, are one of the important genres of Chinese folk songs and are widely spread in all provinces and regions across the country. Its main function is to unify everyone's labor rhythm, coordinate labor movements, and regulate people's labor emotions. A variety of productive labor has produced a variety of labor chants. The way of singing labor chants is basically to lead the crowd. That is, if one person takes it, everyone joins in; or if many people take it, everyone joins. In chants with a slower rhythm, the leading sentence is longer and the closing sentence is slightly shorter; while in more intense work, the leading sentence and the closing sentence are very short. In addition, under normal circumstances, the compound sentence enters after the leading sentence ends, but sometimes the compound sentence enters in advance before the leading sentence ends, resulting in a structural form in which the two voices overlap.
3. Rice area? Field song. China's Yangtze River Basin and Pearl River Basin are one of the largest rice-growing areas in the world. Since ancient times, rice farmers have been accustomed to singing to entertain themselves while planting rice seedlings, weeding, driving water, and digging the ground. These folk songs have many names and are collectively called field songs. Among the more famous ones are the Ge Dong Dynasty and Gong and Drum Cars in central and southern Jiangsu; Tian folk songs and field songs in Qingpu, Shanghai; Shouting Yangge and Yao Yangge in Anhui; Hoe mountain drums and drumming songs in Jiangxi; and Changyang songs in Hubei. Gongs and drums for harvesting grass, fan tune, songs for harvesting grass, and gongs and drums for flowers from Yuan'an; Hunan's field songs and gongs and gongs; Fujian's field poems; Guangdong and Guangxi's field songs and field songs; Yun and Guizhou , Sichuan’s? Grass chanting and so on.
4. Town? Minor tune. Minor tunes (or ditties) are a folk song genre widely circulated in towns and markets. Over a long period of time, through the processing and tempering of urban professional and semi-professional folk artists, a series of theme characteristics such as relatively uniform structure, regular rhythm, delicate tunes, and diverse theme content have been formed. Modern minor-key repertoire can be roughly divided into three categories. One type is minor tunes evolved from folk songs of Ming and Qing Dynasties. The folk songs of the Ming Dynasty such as "Parasitic Grass", "Sheep on the Hillside", "Watching the Fifth Watch", and "Playing with Children"; the folk songs of the Qing Dynasty such as "Cut the Indigo Flowers" and "Jade Elang".
5. Yunling? Double tone. For a long time, people have believed that Chinese folk songs are all monophonic. It was not until the late 1940s that musicologists began to observe the phenomenon of a group of singers singing two parts at the same time in southwest China. Most of the voices used in these two-voice folk songs are dense intervals such as unison, major second, major and minor third, fourth, and fifth.
6. Folk songs of northern Shaanxi.
Northern Shaanxi is a place where folk songs gather. There are many types of folk songs, which are commonly known locally as mountain songs or sour songs. There are many types of folk songs in northern Shaanxi. The more representative folk songs in northern Shaanxi include "Orchid Flower" and "Sansanlipu" sung by Zhu Fengbo, among which there are Four Seasons Song, Wu Geng Diao, Lan Gong Diao, Drinking Song, Yangko, Labor chants, song and dance music, Yulin ditties, Weibei folk songs, Shaanbei medleys, duo, folk songs, religious songs and Tanjia tunes, etc., mainly minors and Xintianyou.
7. Hakka folk songs. Hakka folk songs mainly include Hakka folk songs and Hakka nursery rhymes. It is popular in Meixian District, Xingning City, Wuhua County and Zijin County in eastern Guangdong, Shanghang, Ninghua, Qingliu and Yongding in western Fujian, Xingguo, Ruijin, Yongxin and other places in southern Jiangxi, as well as Taoyuan and Taiwan in northern Taiwan. Hsinchu, Miaoli and other places where Hakka people live together.
8. Yunnan folk songs. Yunnan folk songs express the mutual love between men and women through singing, stimulate the enthusiasm for labor in the production struggle, express condolences for the deceased, blessings for marriage, and express the joy of harvest and festival joy. The more representative Yunnan folk songs include "Little River Flowing Water" and "Embroidered Purse" sung by Zhu Fengbo.
110 widely circulated folk songs:
1. Jasmine
2. Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
3. Dongfanghong
4. Nanniwan
5. In that distant place
6. Impression of Chengdu
7. Take the West Exit
8. Night on the Grassland
9. Kangding Love Song
10. You
11. Hymn
12. Good Days?< /p>
13. Lullaby?
14. Sunshine China
15. Meeting in Aobao
16. Lift up your hijab
17. The Girl from Alishan
18. Guest from afar, please stay
19. Ussuri Barcarolle?
20. Phoenix bamboo under the moonlight
21. Pastoral?
22. Beautiful grassland, my home
23. Are the grapes in Turpan ripe?
24. The Song of Departure?
25. Alam Khan
26. Jinshan Mountain in Beijing
27. Spring in the North Country?
28. Mongolians
29. Small river flowing?
30. The sun that never sets on the grassland
31. The waves of Honghu Lake beat the waves ?
32. Half the moon climbs up?
33. How is Xinjiang?
34. The north wind blows?
35. Liuyang River
36. Peaceful Sunshine?
37. Everest?
38. Homesickness Song
39. Butterfly Spring
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41. Where is the peach blossom in full bloom?
42. Is the border always like Jiangnan?
43. Three Shilipu?
44. Ninety-Nine Sunny Days?
45. Zizhu Tune
46. Who doesn’t say my hometown is good?
47. Ballad of the Great Wall?
48. Shandandan blooms red and brightly?
49. Orchid flowers?
50. The grassland is beautiful at night
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53. Want to kiss?
54. Star cable?
55. Under the silver moonlight
56. Deep ocean?
57. Little cabbage?
58. Back to my parents’ home
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59. Graduation song?
60. Fengyang Flower Drum
61. Loess high slope?
62. Beautiful soul?
p>63. Entering Tibet?
64. Confronting flowers?
65. Please come to the ends of the earth
66. Flowers and young people?
67. Osmanthus flowers bloom everywhere in August?
68. Picking betel nuts?
69. Picking red water chestnuts?
70. Yimeng Mountain Minor Diao
71. Fishing Light Song?
72. Small Back Basket
73. Sun Island?
74. Chairman Mao The glory of the world?
75, The Lover
76, The flowing clouds in the sky?
77, Senji Dema?
78, Meng Jiangnu?
79. Coming in February
80. Song of Peony
81. Hot Girl?
82. Iceberg Snow Lotus?
83. There is a beautiful legend?
84. Youth Dance
85. Love on the Grassland
86. Da The girl from Bancheng?
87. The singing girl from the end of the world?
88. Going to Sichuan?
89. Hongdou Ci?
90. Horse My son, please walk slower
91. Why are the flowers so red?
92. The fifth crescent moon?
93. The horse bell rings and the jade bird comes Singing?
94. Small cattle herding?
95. Visiting the new town
96. People say Shanxi is beautiful?
97. Peach blossoms are red and apricot blossoms are white?
98. Going to the river to wash clothes?
99. The sun comes out and you are happy
100. Big red rooster's hairy legs< /p>
101. Sunshine of peace?
102. Ten gifts to the Red Army?
103. Brother of the Red Army, please walk slowly?
104. Do the cadres in the Soviet area have a good style?
105. Azalea?
106. The red leaves all over the mountain are like colorful clouds
107. Play my beloved Tu Pipa?
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108. Jinshan Mountain in Beijing?
109. Love China?
110. Sing folk songs