Folk songs are also called short folk poems. Including songs for singing and ballads for chanting.
Han folk songs basically have kotaro oshio rhyme, Mongolian folk songs mostly have alliteration, and Dong folk songs have waist rhyme. Folk songs vary in style from place to place. Dai folk songs are lively and beautiful, while Mongolian folk songs are rough and bold. Han folk songs are soft and subtle in the south and bold and unconstrained in the north. Folk songs with characteristics and status are a kind of oral creation full of vitality, and their excellent works have high artistic value. In the history of China literature, folk songs are the ancestor of poetry and literature, and they are one of the sources of writers' creation. Four-character poems, five-character poems, seven-character poems, words, songs and other literary genres all originated from folk songs and were adopted by writers.