Folk songs refer to songs that people improvise when they are working in the fields or expressing their feelings. Its content is extensive, its structure is short, its tune is bright, its emotion is simple, its sound is high and its rhythm is free. The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, and the "national style" part is composed of folk songs collected from various places, that is, folk songs in the modern sense.
Folk songs are mainly distributed in Han nationality areas and ethnic minority areas in plateau, inland, mountain villages and fishing villages, and are popular in Shanghai, Shanxi, Henan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang? Hubei, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other regions? .
Overview of Xintianyou:
This is a masterpiece carved with an old hammer on the Loess Plateau in northwest China, and it is a wonderful flower between the Yellow River in Huang Po. His lyrics take the basic sentence pattern of seven-character case 223 as the upper and lower sentence form, and he is good at romantic metaphor.
It's a folk song in northern Shaanxi. In northern Shaanxi, it is called "Xintianyou", also known as "Shuntianyou" and "Xiaoqu", in Shaanxi it is called "Qu Shan" and in Inner Mongolia it is called "Mountain Climbing Tune".
The form is free and flexible, and every two sentences are a section, which rhymes; Some sections express a meaning, and some sections form a part to express more complex meanings; Free tone, simple and easy to sing; Each paragraph often rhymes and uses more words.