Up to now, Zuo Quan folk songs are known as "a myriad of plays", with more diverse forms and extremely rich contents. In terms of melody, there are three forms: "big cavity", "miscellaneous song" and "minor".
Zhang Zhongyin, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote a poem: Liaoyang City.
Zhuan Xu packet regardless of years, the mountains and rivers are still pitching scenery.
The culture and education of the sacred dynasty are now covered with quilts, and every family is a ritual. Also known as folk songs, it is a short song that can be sung at any time in Shan Ye with the rhythm of labor. The rhythm and single score of zaqu are relatively free, which is suitable for improvisation and has a unique local style. The content includes inverted yangko, ugly yangko, shepherd boy song, tamping song and so on. , such as the following song "boring":
A chicken is flying under the eaves of a temple on a high mountain.
I want to sing a few words to you. My mouth is thirsty and my stomach is hungry (so I cough). The main part of Zuo Quan folk songs is the common name of folk tunes, which is suitable for people to hum when they are engaged in light labor. Minor tunes are short, easy to learn and sing, and you can write and change your own words, and the lyrics are extremely rich.
For example, reflecting daily life:
My parents went down to the river to wash clothes, and I knelt on the stone with my hands. My little parents were silly.
Little hands are red, little hands are white, rubbing clothes and throwing braids, and little parents are stupid.
Little kiss, little love, turn your beautiful face, little kiss,
When you say twisted, that's twisted. A good face should go with a good man, dear.
("laundry")
Praise historical figures:
A few years after Daoguang ascended the throne, the western devils entered the Central Plains. In order to occupy the land of China, I let people eat foreign cigarettes.
Limin eats foreign cigarettes, sells women and children and sells real estate. Everything is sold out, and not a bone is safe.
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Governor Lin of Guangdong and Guangxi has repeatedly banned smoking. Check tens of thousands of boxes of foreign cigarettes and burn them clean.
Lebanese people are smiling. It's really gratifying to do so. Burn medicine to save the people and see if you are a foreign ghost.
("No foreign cigarettes")
Reflect love:
When peach blossoms come, you will be red, and when apricot flowers come, you will be white. Climb the mountain to find you. Come, stay, stay.
When the elm tree comes, you will bloom, and when the branches come, you will be more. You have more ideas than I do.
When the pot comes, you blossom. If it doesn't come, you are rice. You don't want others to just miss you and stare blankly.
Peach blossoms come, you are red, apricot flowers come, you are white, climb the mountain to find you, stay, stay.
You will blossom in one needle and six petals will be yellow. I hope to form a pair with my brother.
(Peach Blossom, Red Flower and White Flower)
Reflected the people's revolutionary struggle;
General Zuo Quan, who lives in Liling County, Hunan Province, is an outstanding party member of China.
Fellow villagers, he is an outstanding party member of China * * * Production Party.
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General Zuo Quan died for the common people. Let's Liao County people avenge him.
Villagers, let's Liao people avenge him. Since 1930s, minor has derived a unique form-"flowering tune". The last sentence often means "XX flowers bloom", and the next sentence points to the topic. The music structure is parallel and symmetrical, the melody is short, the melody is bright, and it is longer than lyric, and the content is mainly to reflect love. Skilled folk artists can "sing whatever they want". Zuo Quan Flowering Tune is unique among Zuo Quan folk songs, and it is a wonderful flower. In the "flowering tune", not only plants can blossom, but also other things, such as stones, brooms, door handles, curtains, glass, etc ... In short, anything used as a metaphor can blossom and bear fruit. And this "flowering" is intrinsically related to the theme of the next sentence, such as:
Yam and egg blossom and knot, and egg is my heart valve.
Half a bowl of beans and half a bowl of rice, I thought of you when I picked up my rice bowl.
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The glass blooms inside and out, and I can see my parents from a distance.
I have a friendship with my brother, and my parents prevent me from getting married.
I wish I could become a wing bird and fly freely in the sky. Dancing between a pair of irises and never leaving my parents.
(lovesickness)
The curtain blooms, the curtain faces outward, and the solid is with you, but you are not.
Sophora japonica blooms and bears Sophora japonica. I met you in the street and didn't speak.
Zanthoxylum bungeanum is in full bloom. I want to have a heart-to-heart talk with you.
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The beans bloom and bend back. If you don't want to leave, come back.
("Come back if you don't want to leave")
Cherry is delicious, but trees are hard to plant, so those ideas are hard to speak.
Shandandan's blossoming back is open, and he has a leisurely mind.
The green slate is blooming naked, and I have no head than you.
Sorghum in the valley is not generally high. Choose one from the crowd and count yourself!
Onions planted in the sand can't take root because my family is too poor to say anything.
Light a little pots and pans, and even a small glass won't think you are poor.
("Take your time with your mind")
As can be seen from the above example, the lyrics of Zuo Quan folk songs are very refined in the use of "a trip to Fu Bi". Moreover, exaggeration, homophonic, pun, reduplication and the rational use of function words in dialects further enhance the expressive power of folk songs. Moreover, most of the lyrics are improvised, sung along with the compilation, and can be learned as soon as they are heard without special study, so they are widely spread.
Every year, Lantern Festival is a time for folk artists to show their talents. Streets and alleys are decorated with lights, and a "social fire" is lit in front of every household. Under the leadership of the "head of the club", everyone is beating drums and marching with lanterns. How's it going? How about going to see the lights together? ! Want to see their wonderful performance, in addition to going to a fixed place, you can also put a few strings of firecrackers at home to stop their team. Looking at those boys and girls dressed in costumes, dancing colorful fans, singing folk songs and twisting the "little flower play", will your mood become younger? Maybe, they will improvise and sing a "glorious" story of you!
In fact, why wait until the fifteenth day of the first month to listen to folk songs? As described in Wang Xianming's poem "Looking at Spring Field" in Qing Dynasty:
The night's rain slammed on the pillow, and the dawn moistened the suburbs.
In the village of Taohong Willow Green Smoke, there are lazy cows shouting and singing whips.
Folk songs have become an indispensable part of people's life in Zuo Quan. They are deeply rooted in this beautiful land of Zhong Ling, and they are integrated with people's hard-working and kind feelings, and they will never be pulled out again.