Korean music, according to the traditional classification of the nation, can be divided into six categories: folk songs, singing music, dance music, instrumental music, "bansuili" (rap music), and opera. According to the genre of music, folk songs can be divided into five types: farm ballads, lyrical ballads, custom ballads, nursery rhymes, and long songs. Farm ballads are labor songs. It occupies a large proportion in folk songs, and almost all labors have corresponding songs. For example, farmland songs include "Planting Yangge", "Pulling Yangge", "Farmer's Song", "Om Hey Ya", etc.; fishing songs include "Boat Song", "Returning to the Sail from a Far Catch", "Drawing Net Song" ", "Fishing Song", etc.; housework songs include "Weaving Ballad", "Spinning Wheel Ballad", "Jima Ballad", "Sangberry Picking Ballad", etc. In addition, there are also "Pheasant Ringing Bells" sung during hunting, "Lamu Song" sung when logging, "Bellows Ringing Bells" sung during blacksmithing, etc. Most of the ballads sung during collective labor are stanza songs with distinctive rhythms. They are often sung in the form of a lead singer. The lead singer's melody is relatively free and stretched, and the lyrics are improvised. The harmony tune often uses liner words, and the mood is warm. The music structure is short and common. Phrases and two-part structures with refrains. Housework ballads are mostly solo, with freer rhythm, euphemistic and lyrical melody, and wider vocal range. There are many songs like ballads with a wide range of themes, covering all aspects of people's lives. Such as love songs such as "Arirang", "Erlang Daling", "Silver Silk Daling", "Girl and Young Man", etc.; life songs such as "Bitter Wife", "Harvest Song", "Dora" Ji" and so on; satirical songs such as "Old Man Da Ling" and "Gunbei Da Ling"; "Yue Ling Song", "Shi Hua Tu", "Jie Ji Ji Song", "Jiu Jiu" with intellectual content Multiplication Solution" etc. Most of the ballads have smooth melody and brisk lyricism, and some have a complaining mood, such as "Arirang", "Sorrowful Voice", etc.; the rhythm and structure are relatively balanced and regular, and the two-part form with reproduction and refrain is the most common. , in addition there are trilogy or rondo style. Custom ballads refer to songs related to folk entertainment activities, weddings and funerals, and other daily life and customs. There are round dance songs that young people sing and dance at the same time, such as "Kuai Ji Na Qing Qing Na Nie", "Dun Dao Er Larry", "La Yi Suo", etc.; there are "Playing on the Swing" and "Tug of War Song" sung during play. ", "Xiangqi Da Ling"; "Wedding Ceremony Song" and "Daughter-in-law's Song" sung at weddings; "Funeral Song" sung at funerals, etc. There are the following types of nursery rhymes: ① Game rhymes: such as "Picking Watermelons", "Little Soldiers Go to War", "Hide and Seek", "Catching Dragonflies", etc.; ② Life rhymes: such as "Sun, Sun", "Round Moon", " "Rain, Rain", "Swallows", "Missing Mom", "Little Carpenter", "Digging Wild Vegetables", etc.; ③ Satirical ballads: such as "Playing Song", "I Don't Know", etc. The range of nursery rhymes is narrow, the melody is mainly progressive, close to colloquial, the rhythm is bright, and the structure is short.