Divided into nine categories in the form of genre. Namely: chant, folk songs, Tian Ge, minor, dance music, fishing songs, folk songs, children's songs and life tunes.
Under each category, it is divided into several subcategories. If you divide the numbers into nine categories:
1. Project number; 2. Forestry hymn; 3. The number of the boatman; 4. Farming hymns; 5. Mining companies; 6. Masonry hymns; 7. carry the number; 8. Fishing number of ocean-going fishing boats; 9. Workshop number.
Under each subcategory, it is divided into several sub-items. For example, forestry chants can be divided into the following six types:
(1) cut the song; (2) Carrying a wooden trumpet; (4) streaming songs; ⑤ pry the floating number; ⑥ Arrange workers and post signs.
1. Category names have both original titles and Chinese translations. Most of them put Chinese titles in front and their original names in brackets, such as Mongolian folk songs. Some ethnic folk songs, the original title has been universal, put the original title in front, such as the folk songs in the southern dialect area of Dong nationality.
2 in the category name, only the original title, according to the provincial volume category. Such as Tibetan folk songs in Kangba and Amdo dialect areas in Sichuan.
3. Some folk songs of ethnic minorities often use Chinese appellations. When they are compiled into the database, they still use Chinese appellations, respecting the habits of the ethnic groups. For example, Guizhou Miao folk songs.
4. Folk songs of individual ethnic groups were not classified when compiling provincial (district) volumes, nor when compiling them into the database. For example, Xinjiang Uygur folk songs.