The genre of Gaoyou folk songs includes chant, minor, folk songs, children's songs, religious songs, etc., which involve many social life fields such as labor production, love, customs and habits. For example, in the sub-category, there are car water songs, fishing songs, boatman songs, pack songs, pack songs, rammed songs, pull songs, weeding songs, lifting songs, duck egg songs and so on. Respectively embody the singing function in different workplaces;
The minor songs are Cross, West Cool Moon, 28 Beautiful Women, Flower Pan Lang, Sister Flowers, Flower Cut, Kirin Tune, Broken Bridge, Flower Cat, Gedangzi, Pear Cream Sugar Tune and Four Seasons Quiet Spring Tune. The singing of Gaoyou folk songs has both the forms of "attracting public harmony" and "duet", as well as the forms of "dialogue" and "leaving blank" (such as "quack" and "Yitu Telai" in a duck's egg). The lyrics are mostly colloquial, and the sentence patterns are mostly four sentences and seven words, two sentences and seven words, which are often compared and contrasted; In singing, interlining words (such as "eyah, cough, yo, yo") and interlining words (such as "I haven't played Haitang for many years") are used more; Dialect pronunciation is quite distinctive, such as Qu (kei), Ge (gai), Hao (nia), Huan (kuan) and Yue (děa). And the regional color is very obvious. Add a lot of sounds, and it's very simple. Counting Duck Eggs, Northwest Township of Gaoyou, Sending Husband to Join the Army, Being a Busy Song, Sister Liu, Huang, Wang Lang and The Voice of Yangko are all representative songs that have great influence and are deeply loved by the masses.
Northwest Township of Gaoyou is a popular folk song, which describes the love between a young worker and a rural girl. The plot is meticulous, the levels are distinct, and the characters are vivid and interesting. It is a segmented song that combines lyricism and narrative. The melody is simple and beautiful. It is sung in Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province and all parts of northern Jiangsu Province, and is named after the first sentence of its traditional lyrics, "I became a godsister and lived in the northwest township of Gaoyou". The melody of this minor is simple, and it is the structure of three sentences and a half songs. It turned out to be a narrative folk song, in which the half sentence of "uh-huh, alas, uh-huh, uh-huh" is full of charm.
Another example is Gaoyou's Duck Eggs, which is also a popular folk song. Gaoyou has a tradition of raising ducks as a sideline, and the emergence of this folk song has a certain social life foundation. In particular, this folk song used the onomatopoeia word "Gua! Hey! " Imitate the duck's cry and "tut tut!" The sound of calling ducks is vivid and pleasing. It not only enriches the rhythm, balances the structure, but also renders the atmosphere of life, which is full of fun. At the end, the sound of calling the duck "tut-tut-tut" slowed down, and the rhythm was free and melodious, absorbing the melody of Tian Yang's song, making this folk song suddenly enlightened, lyrical, full of charm and full of water rhyme. "Counting duck eggs" "Ducks have a mouth, two eyes and two legs. When walking, they swing to both sides and plop into the water. Gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung. ""Gaoyou Northwest Township ""My home is in Gaoyou Beixiahe, and my sister's home is in Pu. My son, oh, oh, my son. Every day I go to work, she always looks at me. I don't know why. That night, I walked across the slope and hurried past her house. Alas, alas, a pot of cold water splashed my shoes, and my heart was in a fire. She hid and looked at me through the door. " Nursery rhymes: (Lamo Song) Ramo, turn to grind, eat half, leave half, and give half to your brother; My brother invited my uncle's house to visit. While my uncle was away, an aunt came out. My aunt invited my grandmother, who hid behind the door.
Moon, moon, clean and bright. Who washes the moon? A white cloud!
Chengmen Chengmen Egg Cake Thirty-six cakes were cut with a knife in front of your house on a flower horse.
People have two treasures, hands and brains. Hands can work and brains can think.
The moon shines in the east; Longan seed and litchi seedling; Chenopodium album, planting leeks;
A solitary flower wrapped in leek leaves; Leek stalk (lift) bride; Blocking Guanyin Gate; Guanyin came out as a dowry;
Make ten boxes of cages and eight boxes of baggage; Silver key flowering cage; Golden key flower box; The silver bear is wet (soft); The burden of gold is wet until it breaks.
Moonlight, square teeth. Tea grows well, and melons grow well. If the melon is not yellow, it will fall into the pond.
In the middle of the pond, there was a needle with eyes and a stool was found. The stool is short and the table is high. Pass a knife.
Chop a dog, the dog has teeth, bite a snake, the snake has a tail, and kill Li Asi.
The kitten is asleep, the kitten is fine, the kitten is not sleeping, open your eyes. Why don't the steamed stuffed bun seller come and make my little hair hungry! hum ......
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The kitten fell asleep and its mother jumped into the river. The kitten woke up and its mother jumped into the well! Uh ... uh-huh ...