1. The Book of Songs. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it is said that The Book of Songs compiled by Confucius was the first collection of music and songs in China. Among them, "National Wind" refers to the folk songs of 15 countries in the nearly 5 years from the early Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. The geographical scope is equivalent to Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan and Shandong in the modern Yellow River basin, and northern Hubei and eastern Sichuan in the Yangtze River basin.

2. Qu Yuan's Songs of the South. Records collate the folk songs of Chu State, that is, Hunan today, and remain in the Nine Songs of Chu Ci. At the same time, Qu Yuan also created a literary theme of China-Sao Style.

(2) Folk songs in the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties

1. Harmony songs in the Han Dynasty. There are both primitive folk songs and artistic songs in the north, which finally developed into Daqu. Xianghe Song, a folk song in the northern part of Han Dynasty, has developed from an unaccompanied apprentice song to a form of "harmony between silk and bamboo, a song for the festival", and the Xianghe Song has further developed into a song and dance song of Han Dynasty-Xianghe Daqu. It became the forerunner of Qing business music in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

2. qingshang music —— the general name of popular music developed by inheriting the Han, Wei and Xiang dynasties and absorbing folk music at that time during the eastern Jin, southern and northern dynasties. As early as the Three Kingdoms period, Wei Sanzu Cao Cao, Cao Pi and Cao Rui wrote a large number of Qing merchants' ci, and also set up a Qing merchants' department to manage Qing merchants' music. Later, due to the war in the Jin Dynasty, the harmony songs and Qing merchants' music in the north spread to the south, and they merged and developed with the western songs of Wu Ge in the south, becoming a national folk song.

3. The Western Songs of Wu Ge-Wu Ge won quite well in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties, and spread in the area centered on Jiankang (Nanjing). Most of them are folk songs such as Midnight Song, Shangsheng Song and Midnight Four Seasons Song; Western music came into being a little later than Wu Ge, during the Southern Song Dynasty and the Qi and Liang Dynasties. Its spread area was centered on Jiangling today, and its performance forms were dance music and relying on songs, that is, relying on songs (accompaniment). In addition to folk songs, works are also created by literati, and folk songs include Mochou Le, Nahetan and so on.

(3) folk songs in the Tang and Song Dynasties

1. Tang Quzi is a new folk song in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which is the result of the exchange and integration of western music and traditional music of the Han nationality, that is, the so-called "Okoyi Lane" song, which is in the form of long and short sentences. Yang Liuzhi is a song of the Sui Dynasty, and the editor-in-chief of Dunhuang Songs >: * * * has collected more than 1,3 songs from the Tang and Five Dynasties, most of which are folk songs, such as Looking at Jiangnan, which is still preserved in Wutaishan Temple in Shanxi.

2. Song songs-The sources of Song songs are mainly folk songs, songs, fragments of Daqu and Faqu and self-created new songs since Sui and Tang Dynasties, and most of their creative techniques are relying on the sound to write lyrics. The theme forms of Song songs mainly include ling (relatively short songs), slow (songs that grow up lyrical and euphemistic), near, preface, top song, etc. A large number of Qupai were produced, with more than 2 well-known ci writers, more than 87 commonly used Qupai, and more than 1,7 variants, and they were famous for their ci. These rich Qupai became the main components of various music forms, which laid the foundation for higher artistic forms such as singing, Zhugong tune and opera. Among the two Song Ci circles, Liu Yong, Zhou Bangyan and Jiang Huan were famous for their combination of ci and song.

(4) Folk songs in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Tang poetry, Song lyrics and Ming songs were very rich in folk songs in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and there were folk songs reflecting various themes, art songs, piano songs and Pu Songling's Liaozhai Folk Songs, etc., and there began to be publications recording folk songs. There are 28 songs recorded, and many tunes are still circulating today. They have a history of 3 to 4 years.

the position of folk songs in Chinese people's lives

folk songs organize group labor, express feelings and record myths, history and legends.

1. the groundbreaking song. Mei Ge by the Yi people, Gu Ge by the Miao people, Pan Wang Ge by the Yao people, Creation Song by the Hani people, etc. are people's understanding of some natural phenomena and their knowledge about history, production and life etiquette, which are generally sung by wizards at festivals, sacrifices or wedding and funeral ceremonies.

2. Ethnic origin and migration recorded in folk songs.

3. Heroic epics in folk songs are literary works collectively created and sung by people in past dynasties.

4. Long stories in folk songs.