Qingpu Field Folk Song（青浦山田歌） lyrics come from life, reflecting the colorful life with social awareness, education, entertainment, aesthetic and other functions. The main content of the performance is reflected at work, life, thoughts, love and other aspects. It is an important way to observe the surrounding rice area of working people in social life, folk customs. It is an important part of Shanghai culture.
The musical and literary features of Qingpu Field Folk Song is different from the folk structure of that in Fenhu Lake Rice Circle and Taihu Lake Basin and adjacent areas, that is to say, Qingpu Field Folk Song has its unique singing and performing features: first, the unique structure of space; second, a unique singing style; third, unique melodic line cavity; fourth, unique approach to sound.
Qingpu Field Folk Song has its own unique characteristics. Field folk song has high-pitched voice and many ups and downs, consecutive octave appears frequently; third and fifth degree musical scale appears now and then. In addition, because the field folk song has opera section in free rhythm, thus creating more prolongation of tune.
As a cultural phenomenon, field folk songs recorded history, culture, marriage, love, local customs, reflecting the large number contents of humanistic psychology language, religion, etc., especially the lyrics come from life, reflecting the life and colorful history.
Field folk songs come from Han Chinese working people to create their own kind of labor songs. It can express the feelings of the working people, to tell their own joy and pain, but also refine their temperament and relieve fatigue. So field folk songs have been handed down in a very wide spread throughout the Qingpu District, from generation to generation in the rural areas.
Qingpu field folk song comprehensively reflect the unique artistic value and appreciate the value of folk songs in the southern region of the rice culture which has high research value. With the increasing urbanization of Qingpu district, it has been rare to see in the huge area to find piece of rice farming.
Farmers become citizens into the city and Qingpu field folk living environment and heritage groups are gradually passed, only ten men who are more than 80 elderly folk singer are still active in the occasional appearance organized by the cultural sector. The field folk song of original ecology between the fields have been rare and it is in urgent need of rescue and protection.
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