Hakka Folk Songs in Southern Jiangxi

Jiangxi
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Hakka folk songs in southern Jiangxi (the fourth batch of provincial level) Ganzhou area has high mountains and dense forests, few fields and many slopes, which determines that the people here mainly engage in farming and animal husbandry, and also cut down trees, transport wood, cultivate tea gardens and other horticultural industries. Therefore, the popular folk songs, field songs, tea songs, and boat songs here are all closely related to mountains and water. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, due to the influence of wars and the political needs of a certain period, the northern residents began to migrate to Yuedi, which was still in the "barbarian land". Since then, a large number of northern scholars and civilians have settled in southern Jiangxi, especially the migration of a large number of Central Plains residents who left their hometowns during the Tang and Song Dynasties. They reclaimed wasteland here and spread advanced farming techniques and culture. Therefore, the folk songs in southern Jiangxi have obvious Hakka characteristics in both intonation and language. Hakka folk songs in southern Jiangxi are the songs of the people and the voice of the people. They are oral literature sung by Hakka ancestors in their long-term labor and life, without affectation or decoration, and with natural true feelings. Because southern Jiangxi is located in a mountainous area, folk songs often appear in deep mountains, dense forests, or fields and mountain pits. In order to be heard far and clear, the pitch is usually high and the sound is long. The highest note often appears in the first sentence, which plays an artistic effect of taking the lead or calling, and then gradually descends to the main note to end the Hakka love song. They confess to each other, depend on each other for life and death, and are united forever. Singing pushes the feelings to a climax. For example, the "Vine Tree Song" is naive and imaginative, and expresses the faithful love vividly and vividly: "The cliff is a perennial tree in the mountain, and you are a century-old vine in the mountain; the tree dies and the vine entangles until death, and the tree lives and the vine entangles until death." As the saying goes: "Half of the opera is fake, and every word of the folk song is true." Hakka folk songs are so real that they accompany the labor, life, reproduction and development of the Hakka people, and have become an indispensable food in the spiritual life of the Hakka people.

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