How did the folk songs of Yazhou in Hainan come into being?

Yazhou folk song is one of the ancient Hainan folk songs. It is an oral literature produced and popular in Sanya, Ledong, Liuhuang and Guyazhou. It is a kind of folk song spread by oral singing and handwritten words.

Yazhou folk songs are folk songs that people in Yazhou express their feelings and praise a better life in their production and life. They are the songs of woodcutter, common people and fishermen. The ancient folk songs of Yazhou, without any fancy decoration, are full of passionate tunes of folk singers, releasing their love for life with simple language.

In 972, Song Taizu began to establish Yazhou, located in Yazhou Town, Sanya City, which governs Ningyuan and ji yang counties. From then on, the folk songs produced and circulated in this area are collectively called "Yazhou Folk Songs".

Yazhou folk song is a kind of China folk song sung in Hakka dialect, with extremely strict meter and its own system.

The Records of Yazhou records: "There are six kinds of cliff language." It says, "Yongning Li, Linchuan Li, Baoping Li and Li all speak Hakka dialect, similar to Yin Min dialect. Same as the county language. " The "Hakka dialect" mentioned here is the Chinese dialect used to sing the folk songs of Yazhou. Belonging to the Minnan language family, it was brought by Fujian immigrants later, so it was marked with the word "guest".

Although the history of Yazhou does not clearly record the origin of Yazhou folk songs, it is inferred from the age of Yazhou folk songs that it should rise in the Song Dynasty and flourish in the late Qing Dynasty. At first, it was only between literati and poets to express their feelings, and gradually introduced the folk to sing freely among the working people.