Top Ten Famous Songs of Miao Nationality

Our names are Miao, the people on Miao Mountain, Miao's dance music, my home in the depths of Miao, and I am not Ayudo, sister flower, golden Miao Mountain, Lushengchang, the beauty of Miao township and the heaven of Miao Mountain people.

Miao folk songs are popular in Xiangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan. Miao folk songs can be divided into three categories according to their contents: stray songs (love songs), drinking songs, bitter songs, anti-songs, funeral songs, labor songs, current political songs, children's songs, riddle songs and so on, with different tunes.

Artistic feature

Miao ballads have distinctive features, with neat lyrics and rigorous structure. Most of them are seven words and four sentences, and a few are separated by three words and seven sentences.

Singing forms include solo, two-person chorus and multi-person chorus. They like to sing in the way of question and answer, or narrative or guessing, with slow rhythm and long and weak tone. Most music tunes are clear, high-pitched and euphemistic, and nasal sounds are a major feature of Miao ballads. The tunes of Miao folk songs used to be short first and then long, which can generally be divided into two categories: high-pitched and flat-pitched.

Most of the high-pitched songs are sung in the field by combining true and false sounds. The melody is high and wide, with great fluctuation and strong sense of rhythm. He is good at singing and dancing, and is mostly used to sing folk songs such as production, labor, social life and love.

The level tone is lowered, the melody fluctuates slightly, the range generally fluctuates within eight degrees, the rhythm is slow and free, the lyric is long, and there are many setbacks. The tone of frustration is long and weak, and the lingering sound is endless. It takes a long time to sing a song, which is mostly used to sing folk songs with customs such as etiquette, marriage and sacrifice.