Lanxi folk songs originated in the middle and upper reaches of Lanxi River in Heshan District, Yiyang City, Hunan Province. They are a kind of folk songs with strong Huxiang culture and long-standing reputation. This paper discusses the cultural characteristics of Lanxi folk songs from the aspects of their origin, content, language, vocal cavity and forms of expression, which provides a window for the outside world to understand the customs of Nandongting Lake area.
Lanxi, located in the northeast of Yiyang City, Hunan Province, is a thousand-year-old town near Dongting Lake with a long history. Lanxi River in the town is an important tributary of Zijiang River and a shortcut to Changsha. Lanxi folk songs originated in the middle and upper reaches of Lanxi River in Heshan District, Yiyang City. They are folk songs with strong Huxiang culture and high artistic value.
Hunan folk songs:
Hunan folk songs, sometimes high-pitched, sometimes euphemistic, sometimes humorous and sometimes provocative, reflect the thoughts, feelings, ideals and aspirations of the people of this country from different directions and angles. In the long years, she has always been firmly rooted in the soil on both sides of the Three Rivers and Four Rivers. Like the flowers in Shan Ye, she decorated the simple, calm and colorful life of those mud-footed poles in various ways.
Hunan folk songs not only have beautiful and moving lyrics, but also have fresh and refined tunes, which are unique and can express various emotions. Hunyuan has cheerful folk songs, beautiful lyrical tunes, cheerful and active lanterns, low and sad folk art, magnificent labor trumpets, stirring grass gongs and drums and passionate revolutionary songs. Their music forms are rigorous and diverse, especially the use of contrast sounds, which makes folk songs reach a very high artistic level in setting off the atmosphere and revealing the inner feelings of characters.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Hunan Lanxi Folk Songs