In the aspect of melody art, because Gannan is located in mountainous areas, folk songs often appear in deep mountains and forests or fields. In order to spread far and clearly, the tone is generally high and the sound is long. Its highest tone often appears in the first sentence, which has the artistic effect of leading or calling, and then gradually drops to the end of the tonic. Figures of speech, from the most basic "Fu, Bi and Xing" in poetry to various figures of speech such as pun, antithesis, sentence breaking, parallelism, thimble (tail-butting, heel-picking) and repeated overlapping, have been applied. There are three kinds of singing methods: falsetto, original sound and soft voice. False voice, including the combination of true and false voice, is mainly used in high-pitched folk songs; This kind of voice, a common form, is complex and changeable, and is good at improvising lyrics; The voice is thin, mostly for women to sing and solo, the volume is small, the timbre is quiet and delicate, and euphemistic. In the first two singing methods, the song title "ho-hello" is often added at the beginning and end of the song. In syntactic structure, there are mainly two sentences and four sentences. The former is formed by the repeated use of the upper and lower sentences, with one word and one sound, focusing on expressing lyrics; The latter is developed on the basis of the former, and the general song dynasty is slow.
Gannan Hakka folk songs, the most local style is that "xingguo folk song" has a fixed "over the mountain". Xingguo folk song has a fixed title format: "Alas-Alas", with a high and long tone, which echoes the valley and aims to attract attention. There are several flat tones with many words and few cavities in the middle, and then after a fixed sentence pattern: "heart to heart" or "heart to heart brothers (sisters)" (changed to "gay brothers" in the Soviet era), it means the end of the song. Such as: "Oh dear! Play a folk song in a row and cross the stone cliff on the road; How many gravel roads have been crossed and how many sandals have been crossed. " Liu Shan was born in Yangcun Township, longnan county. In the past, the mountains and forests were dense and sparsely populated, and tigers and leopards often appeared here. When people walk along the mountain road, they sing "Oh, hey, click-ah, hey ..." The sound is so loud that it can spread for miles. One of them invited his companions, and the other scared away the wild animals. Therefore, they usually sing with falsetto or a combination of true and false voices, which is very skillful and difficult.