1. Urban romance (including urban love songs and sweet songs): This kind of songs generally take the city as the background, capture the life, thoughts and emotions of urbanites with keen eyes, and depict the complex hearts of people (mainly young people) living in cities with meticulous brushwork. The tune is lyrical and the singing method is soft. For example, "City Bag" and "I miss you so much" all reflect the life and love view of urbanites from different angles.
2. Folk songs (including urban folk songs, campus folk songs and new folk songs): The lyrics of folk songs have the characteristics of folk songs, which are natural and quiet, catchy, fresh and smooth in melody, elegant in artistic conception and not kitsch. It takes the guitar as the best accompaniment instrument, just like the improvisation of wandering artists and bards, and it is a form of singing with strong self-entertainment.
Most of the campus songs in folk songs are students' own songs, which are more pure and clear with the pure campus as the creative background. For example, campus songs such as Childhood, Story of Time and You at the Same Table written by the mainland in the 1990s really made people realize that they abandoned the hustle and bustle of the city and returned to a simple artistic conception. Urban folk songs go out of the campus gate and touch common things and ordinary people in complex society with a broader theme. Lyrics are more like chatting, not pursuing the artistic conception of poetry, and not insisting on rhyming. For example, Ai Jing's My 1997, with its simple and straightforward language, is like a realistic painting in which "a young' wandering artist' wanders around and pursues persistently", and behind it is the hardship of "having no fixed place to live and eating untimely". Xinmin ballads are developed from urban ballads. It has more innovations in tunes, pays more attention to the connotation of folk culture, and is better at digging up thought-provoking problems in real life.
3. Northwest Wind: Northwest Wind absorbs the folk tones of Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Northeast China and other northern regions as its basic music language, and combines with the rhythm of rock music and disco. The tune is vigorous and rough, full of Shan Ye flavor, and the singing style is bold and heroic, revealing the beauty of masculinity, which has both the charm of folk songs and the charm of contemporary "strong songs". The theme of northwest wind mostly reflects the reality that farmers living in the poverty-stricken areas in northwest China are still not rich.
4. Rock music: Rock music that rose in China in the late 1980s is generally vigorous and crazy in form, with wild and uninhibited performances. The heavy and swaying sound brings strong sensory stimulation to people and arouses the desire of the appreciator to actively participate. Its content contains rebellious spirit, healthy and progressive, full of youthful vitality, and advocates a positive outlook on life.
5. New season minor: minor or ditty, lane song. Its greatest feature is the ingenious combination of its tunes and folk music materials with local colors. So the melody is concise, catchy and regular. For example, "Xiao Fang" describes a kind, beautiful, simple and lovely rural girl, whose tune has the characteristics of "du dang Diao", which makes the "old tree" bloom with "new flowers". The theme of minor focuses on the daily life, customs and love of ordinary working people in rural towns. For example, The Grand Sedan is a work full of folk customs and festive colors.