Taiwan Province folk song culture with rich cultural background.

Taiwan Province provincial culture is composed of local Hakka culture and Fujian-based immigrant culture, which has penetrated into all aspects of urban culture. Take the famous folk songs in Taiwan Province Province as an example, which are composed of Fulao folk songs and Hakka folk songs. To lay the foundation for the far-reaching pop music in Taiwan Province Province in the future.

Taiwan Province compatriots like to express their inner feelings with folk songs, praising labor, love and life. Whether it's a day under the scorching sun or a night under the moonlight, whether it's a mountain area, a plain, a fishing village or a tea garden, people often hear melodious folk songs floating in the wind, but it's refreshing and intoxicated by the embrace of nature.

Indeed, Taiwan Province Province is not only the hometown of drama and the island of music, but also the treasure house of China folk songs. There are many kinds of folk songs in Taiwan Province Province. In addition to all kinds of folk songs popular in the areas inhabited by indigenous compatriots, folk songs of Fulao and Hakka are mainly popular in the areas inhabited by Han people.

Fu Lao folk songs

Fulao folk songs refer to folk songs sung in Minnan dialect. Most of them belong to the minor system, and the singing method belongs to the single-tone singing method. There are four sentences in each paragraph, most of which are seven (a few are five). The content is mainly about singing love, followed by labor, comedy, narration or nursery rhymes. In addition to the traditional folk songs that have been circulated since ancient times, most of them are inspired by singers, and their forms are lively and natural. Generally speaking, love songs and ballads mostly use seven words.

The style of rich and old folk songs is mainly lyrical and mournful melody, and there are also funny songs with bright rhythm and strong irony. The tunes are mostly composed of five tones. The folk songs in Hengchun area still retain the simple style of supporting the old folk songs. However, most of the folk songs in Yanglan Plain have been absorbed as the qupai of Taiwanese opera, which has become a popular local opera in Taiwan Province.

Due to the different living environment, the folk songs of Fu Lao in Fujian and Taiwan have also produced different artistic styles. Some people think that Minnan folk songs pay more attention to artistry, while Taiwan Province Fulao folk songs are more popular and easy to sing. However, no matter how different the styles of Fulao folk songs on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are, they are rooted in the soil of Chinese national culture and jointly write a new chapter in national culture.

Hakka folk songs

Hakka folk songs are divided into "Hakka folk songs" and "tea picking songs", which are sung in Hakka dialect. Hakka immigrants from eastern Guangdong and western Fujian were introduced into Taiwan Province Province, which were widely popular in Taoyuan, Hsinchu and Miaoli in the north, Kaohsiung and Pingtung hilly areas in the south.

Hakka folk songs are quite different from Fulao folk songs belonging to the minor system in style. The folk songs in the minor system are mostly "alley songs" in towns in plain areas, while Hakka folk songs are pure "songs of Shan Ye", which are mostly sung in hilly areas, with more lyrical colors and more exotic animals.

Hakka folk songs mainly praise love, but also reflect collective production and labor. Their tunes are also pentatonic. Singing is slow and euphemistic, melodious and lingering, full of charm and very beautiful, which is roughly the same as the popular folk songs in Meizhou, eastern Guangdong. Hakka folk songs are also four sentences each, each sentence is mostly seven words.

The most commendable thing is that Hakka folk songs often use puns, metaphors, metonymy and other methods to express their inner feelings and express some profound meanings, which sounds very subtle and intriguing, has strong artistic charm and gives people beautiful literary enjoyment. Therefore, every good Hakka folk song is a good "seven-character quatrain".

Most Hakkas live in mountainous areas. When singing folk songs, they often sing to each other across a mountain or a river. I didn't pay attention when singing, for fear that others could not hear me clearly. Therefore, in order to attract the attention of the other party, Hakka folk songs mostly adopt the method of "Xing" in the first and second sentences in the Book of Songs, that is, with the help of other things as the beginning of folk songs, it plays a certain role of "going through the door" and "prelude", and the key is

Hakka folk songs can be solo or duet. Besides traditional folk songs with fixed lyrics, singing Hakka folk songs also requires superb improvisation, improvisation and singing skills.