Henan folk songs include: "Weaving Flower Baskets", "Shepherd's Song", "Want to Kiss", "Fathers and Folks", "Henan Divine Comedy", "What's Wrong with the People of Henan", "Henan Xiaoqu", "Catching the dowry", "Gathering Betel Nuts", "Aunt Wang Nails a Crock", "Lazy Woman Scolding a Chicken", etc.

Henan folk songs: The scales used are very rich. A large number of folk songs use the pentatonic scale, and there are also hexatonic scales with "4" (or #4) or "LE" [ie: 1 2 3 4 (or #4) 56 or 1 2 3 5 6 7] and "4 and 7" all appear in the heptatonic scale (ie: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7).

However, the two tones "4 and 7" that appear in Henan's heptatonic scale are not very stable, and often wander between "4" and "#4" and "7" and "b7" "Between, between two sounds, that is, the phoneme of ↑4 and ↓7.

The seven-note scales appearing in "↑4" and "↓7" in Henan folk songs make the style and characteristics of Central Plains folk songs more intense and prominent.

At the same time, the differences in language, phonology, tone, and tone of the people in a region due to geographical conditions also affect the differences in the melody, rhythm, mode, scale, etc. of folk songs.

Extended information

The meanings of folk songs and folk songs are actually somewhat different. The word "ballad" in folk songs has the meaning of emptiness and nothingness, which is the so-called rumor and rumor. Folk songs generally refer to songs that were circulated among the people in ancient times, but the composer is unknown.

These are what we call folk songs, and of course they can also be called folk songs, so we will call them "modern folk songs" or urban folk songs, and should not be called modern folk songs or urban folk songs.

In Western operas or Chinese local operas, it is not difficult to find that the music part can fully reflect the color, character, and cultural traditions of an ethnic group. However, we would not call it folk songs, and that is not necessarily what they are. It has rich artistic connotation.

But this type of traditional music, in the era before phonographs, was a patented product of the court nobles, intellectuals or the upper class, and was not popular among the people. Therefore, dissemination among the people is the most basic condition for it to become a folk song.

Folk song "The Sun That Never Sets on the Prairie"

Since the last century, English has been a powerful language, influencing the world in many fields, and the same goes for folk songs. Our generation has been influenced by European and American folk songs to this day.

In the 1960s, driven by market forces, European and American folk songs developed in a diversified way and reached maturity. In fact, the musical value and significance of European and American folk songs deserve our full praise and recognition.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia_Folk Songs