Longnan Hakka Folk Songs
Longnan Hakka folk songs are a form of art and a traditional music of life style with Hakka ethnic characteristics and regional cultural characteristics. It truly records the folk customs, thoughts and feelings, aesthetic consciousness, working life, historical changes, etc. of the Hakka people. It is an important intangible cultural heritage. Longnan Hakka folk songs have high tones, unrestrained emotions, improvisation, and are beautiful and pleasant to the ears. Most of the lyrics are in the form of four sentences and seven words. Because of their simple, natural, and authentic expression, they have a strong local flavor, short structure, harmonious charm, catchy, easy to sing and remember, and are widely circulated. Longnan Hakka folk songs are divided into song-style songs, love songs, life songs, ritual songs, exhortation songs, children's songs, miscellaneous songs, etc., using rhetoric techniques such as fu, bixing, pun, overlap, metaphor, imagination, exaggeration, personification, symbolism, and exposition, making the folk song expression skills flexible and diverse, and the folk song works have a richer connotation and more charm. Representative works include Yangcun Guoshanliu "Singing a Folk Song to Show Power", "My Younger Sister Picks Firewood for the Son", Dongkeng Folk Song "The Night Will Grow Longer and the Day Will Come", Taojiang Folk Song "Don't Marry a Rafting Man if You Have a Girl", "The Love Between the Two Will Last Forever", Dujiang Folk Song "Because I Have No Sister, the Pulley Is Flying", "You Are Single, You Are Single", Jiahu Folk Song "Talking about Folk Songs, You Don't Worry", etc. The main old artists are Liao Zhengyue, Xu Shiyi, Ye Jinqiao, Xiao Conghai, Liu Guohong, and the inheritors of the high-pitched folk song Yangcun Guoshanliu are Liu Puxin, Lai Yuequan, and Lai Yongqing. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)