She nationality is a major ethnic minority in the southeast coast of China. She nationality has no written language of its own, and the inheritance of its culture and music mainly depends on her songs, words and deeds. She people call themselves "Shanha" and give folk songs a unique title of "Geyan", which is regarded as a family heirloom by her family.
Folk songs in eastern Fujian are distributed in seven counties and two cities under the jurisdiction of Ningde, and Lianjiang and Luoyuan in Fuzhou. The songs of She nationality in eastern Fujian are rich in content and wide in subject matter. According to the natural habits of She nationality and the different characteristics of tunes, it can be divided into Fuan and Jiaocheng tunes. Luoyuan and Lianjiang tune, Fuding tune, Xiapu tune and Gutian tune. Singing forms include solo, duet, chorus and unique "double-falling" two-part disc singing form. There are three kinds of singing methods: falsetto, true voice and the combination of true and false voice. The falsetto singing method has the most national characteristics, and the she people in eastern Fujian have "blocking the way to sing" and "visitors in the silkworm sing". A series of rare customs such as "being a cousin to the song" and "being a in-laws to the song", as well as regular fixed-point large-scale and popular song festivals and songs. There are many ways to inherit the songs of She nationality, mainly by hand-copying the songs and inheriting the songs and customs. With the characteristics of "singing ceremony", "singing history", "singing talent", "singing emotion" and "singing vulgarity", the she nationality's singing has formed its own unique laws and characteristics in the course of thousands of years' development and is an important part of Chinese national music culture.
She songs are passed down from generation to generation in the following ways: First, they are passed down in the singing field; Second, the ancestral family passed down from generation to generation; The third is the teacher's inheritance; The fourth is the inheritance of handwritten songbooks; Fifth, creative inheritance; Sixth, inheritance in sacrificial ceremonies or activities.
The main values of "She folk songs in eastern Fujian" are as follows: 1. First, it embodies the integrity and diversity of Chinese national music culture. 2. It shows that the She people's singing culture has high academic research value. 3. It embodies the practical development value of promoting the development of local tourism economy.