Can you briefly talk about the characteristics of folk songs?

Three basic characteristics of folk songs:

1 has the most direct and close connection with people's social life. The author of folk songs is the people, and they are created by the people in their long-term labor and life practice in order to express their lives, express their feelings and express their will and wishes. In the past, the working people were deprived of the right to master culture, and they could not read or understand music, but they wrote and sang their own songs by word of mouth. For example, The Hard Work of Long-term Workers and the Difficulty of Recruiting Workers pour out the sadness of long-term workers being defrauded and oppressed, and Embroidered Pocket expresses the girl's longing for her lover and her fear of a happy life. (Feng Ming Menglong) There is a saying "But there are fake poems, there are no fake folk songs", and the people's thoughts expressed by folk songs are the most real and profound.

2. Folk songs are gradually formed and developed through extensive improvisation and oral singing by the masses. They are the crystallization of the wisdom of countless people. (The creation process and singing process of folk songs are integrated, and they are improvised in the singing process and spread in the arrangement process. )

3. The music form of folk songs is simple, approachable and vivid.