The genres of folk songs are: chant (labor chant), folk songs and minor (ditty).

1. The labor chant is called "chant" for short, and it is often called "big chant" in the north and "shouting chant" in the south.

Chanting is a folk song that is directly accompanied by manual labor and closely coordinated with the labor rhythm. It is produced in the process of labor, directly serves productive labor, truly reflects the working conditions and the mental outlook of laborers, and its musical image is rough, heroic, solid and powerful, which is an indispensable organic part of some manual labor.

2. Folk songs refer to songs that people improvise when they are working in the fields or expressing their feelings. Its content is extensive, its structure is short, its tune is bright and clear, its emotion is simple, its pitch is high and its rhythm is free.

folk songs are mainly distributed in plateau, inland, mountain villages, fishing villages and other areas. It is extremely widespread and rich in reserves. Folk songs are one of the basic genres of China folk songs. Generally speaking, it refers to the folk songs with free rhythm and long melody that spread in plateau, mountainous area and hilly area, and people sing for their own amusement when walking, cutting firewood, grazing, mowing grass or folk songs.

3. Minor is a genre of Han folk songs in China. Generally speaking, it refers to the Han folk song and dance ditty popular in town fairs. After being passed down through the ages, it has undergone more processing in art, and has the characteristics of balanced structure, regular rhythm, delicate melody and softness.

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China's folk music is an ancient and evergreen towering tree in the world's folk music forest, and it is the pride of our Chinese descendants. It stands proudly in the east of the world with its rich and bright flowers, profound and long-standing historical traditions and unique and diverse color features.

China's national folk music is a vast sea, and each nation has its own proud and long-lasting folk songs. Folk songs are part of the splendid culture of the Chinese nation, and 56 ethnic groups in the Chinese nation's big family have an ancient history, a distant civilization and a splendid culture.

The excellent folk songs bred by the fertile soil of China are simple, melodious, lively, wonderful, pleasing to the ear, touching and fascinating. Like other arts, folk songs are as profound as ever, and also have unique rhyme and applause and strong vitality.

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