Chinese Han folk songs can be divided into three categories based on their musical characteristics: chants, folk songs and minor tunes.

1. Labor chants: hauling chants, engineering chants, farming chants, workshop chants, and fishing chants.

2. Folk songs: herding folk songs, field folk songs, general folk songs, Xintianyou, Huaer, folk songs, mountain climbing tunes, and divine songs.

3. Minor tunes:

Minor tunes evolved from folk songs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, including Meng Jiangnu tune, Huahua tune, Embroidered purse tune, and Jian Indigo tune. Local ditty. Song and dance minor tunes, Huagu tune, Deng tune, Huadeng tune, Tea-picking tune, Yangko tune, and Land Boat tune.

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Characteristics of folk songs

Folk song lyrics: reflect all aspects of rural life. Improvisation. The lyrics are mainly seven-character sentences and mostly use serif words.

Folk music: loud and clear. "Du" is widely used to lengthen and elongate the tone. The "branch" combines the extended sound with the callable serifs at the beginning and end to form a front and back cavity, which is a unique feature of folk songs.

Singing forms: solo, duet, group singing, singing together, leading a crowd, etc.