Name of Cultural Heritage: Shanwei Fishing Song

Heritage number: II-7

Heritage category: folk music

Date of application: 2006 Applicant/Applicant: Shanwei City, Guangdong Province

Heritage level: province

Fishermen are also used to using songs instead of their usual communication language, greeting, congratulating, chatting about family and falling in love.

Shanwei fishing song is an epic of Han working people in Shanwei area. In the long river of history, it tells the ups and downs, joys and sorrows of fishermen's work and life. As a true portrayal of fishermen's life, fisherman's songs, after being collected and refined by artists, have become beautiful and touching paintings of fishermen's customs, which is a valuable heritage of Han traditional culture and art.