1. It has the most direct and close connection with people's social life. The authors of folk songs are the people, who created them in order to express their lives, express their feelings and express their will and wishes in their long-term labor and life practice.

2. Folk songs are gradually formed and developed through extensive improvisation and oral singing. They are the crystallization of the wisdom of countless people. (The creation process and the singing process of folk songs are integrated into one, and they are improvised in the singing process and sung and circulated in the compilation process)

3. The musical form of folk songs is simple, approachable and vivid.

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The role of folk songs: education and inheritance

Among some ethnic minorities in China, there are folk songs that sing long narrative poems and historical poems, such as Yi people's? "Meige" and Miao nationality? "Ancient songs" and Yao's? "Pan Wang Ge", Hani? "Song of the Creation" and Jingpo's? "Munao Zhaiwa", Dulong? "Genesis" and "Wa"? "Wood scraping the base" and so on.

These songs describe the ancient myths and legends about the universe and the origin of human beings, the ancestors' understanding of some natural phenomena and their knowledge of history, production, life and etiquette. These songs have small fluctuations, strong intonation and long space, and some lyrics are tens of thousands of lines long, which usually takes hours or even days to sing. Most of these songs are sung by wizards or venerable old people in festivals, sacrifices or wedding and funeral ceremonies, and the atmosphere is solemn.

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