Folk songs, as the name suggests, are songs sung by ordinary people. They come from the working life of ordinary people and are continuously processed and perfected by the collective.

Therefore, it is a form of folk literature and has strong regional characteristics.

For example, in the "Wind" in "The Book of Songs", there are folk songs from fifteen vassal states including Zhou Nan, Zhao Nan, Bei, Wei, Wang, Zheng, Qi, Wei, Tang, Qin, Chen, Hui, Cao and Bin.

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Today, in the singing of national songs, there are also folk songs from different places, such as "Xintianyou" in northern Shaanxi, "Hua'er" in Gansu, Qinghai, and Ningxia, "Mountain Tune" in western Inner Mongolia, and "Mountain Song" in northwest Shanxi

etc.

Our ancestors shouted slogans during production work for the needs of labor production. This is the most primitive folk song. When this most primitive folk song came into being, there was no writing and it could not be recorded at all. Even if there were writing later,

, only nobles can read and study, and ordinary people cannot read or write at all. So, how did these folk songs be passed down?

"The Book of Songs" is the earliest collection of poetry in my country. How did the folk songs "National Style" in it be included in the "Book of Songs"?

There are two ways. One is that in order to understand the people's sentiments of various vassal states, the Zhou royal family at that time sent people from the imperial court to various places to inspect and collect them at the same time. This gave the court the opportunity to collect folk songs from various places in the court. The other way was that the princes

When a country submits materials on local customs and customs to the imperial court, it may also send a copy of its own folk songs to the imperial court.

However, the folk songs, whether collected or copied, were often vulgar and crude, and the court would arrange for special personnel to sort and process them.

For example, it is said that Confucius participated in the compilation and revision of the Book of Songs, and finally compiled it into a collection and distributed it to various places.

Therefore, folk songs from one place can be spread to other places, transcending geographical restrictions.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang also collected and compiled the folk songs of Chu State in the pre-Qin period into the folk song collection "Songs of Chu".

Now that there are written records, of course there is the possibility of being passed down for a long time.

After Qin Shihuang unified the world, the imperial court established an official office dedicated to the management of music, called the "Yuefu". This move was the country's conscious effort to collect and preserve folk songs.

Summary: During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court expanded Yuefu on a large scale and collected a large number of poems from the people. Later generations collectively referred to this type of poetry as "Yuefu poetry".

At present, the most complete collection of Yuefu poems is the "Collection of Yuefu Poems" compiled by Guo Maoqian of the Song Dynasty. It collects from the works of the legendary Tao Tang Dynasty to the ballads and Yuefu of the Five Dynasties, totaling 100 volumes.

"Yuefu Poems" divides Yuefu poems into 12 special collections based on the content of folk songs, the time of creation, the occasion of singing, and the way of singing.

This is very similar to the albums produced by our current music production companies, except that at that time, they could only be recorded on paper with words. It was impossible to have MV discs, CDs and DVDs, but there were text compilations.

, can be passed down from generation to generation.