She folk songs can be roughly divided into narrative songs (including fairy tales and novels) and miscellaneous songs (including love, working life, knowledge transmission, ethics and entertainment life, etc.). ) and ceremony songs (including wedding ceremony songs, ancestor worship songs, merit songs, etc. ).

She folk songs are popular in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces where she people live in compact communities. She folk songs have a long history and are passed down from generation to generation by the She people. She people speak with songs and narrate with songs, forming singing customs such as duet, singing on March 3, singing at night, wedding songs, sacrificial carols and funeral lamentations.

Singing Forms of She Folk Songs

She folk songs are mostly sung in falsetto. According to the different singing methods, there are three changes: flat tone, falsetto singing and treble. There is also a "two-tone" singing method in Qidu, Ba Du and Jiudu in the north of Ningde, Fujian. When men and women sing with the same lyrics, the relationship between tunes is in the form of support, imitation or harmony.

She folk songs can be divided into "treble" (falsetto) and "bass" (true voice), and the singing forms are solo, duet and duet. The words and expressions of the She folk songs in Zhejiang remain basically unchanged, but the rhyme has been changed twice, making one change into three, forming a unique technique of "three changes" and "repeated superposition", which is unique in China folk songs. ?

Like other areas, Taishun She folk songs take "duet" (or "dish songs") as the main form. Whenever there is a wedding celebration or guests come from afar, she people will gather in the kitchen or hall to sing duets, talk with songs, make friends with songs and express their feelings with songs.