This time in our cultural lesson we were learning more about Chinese Folk songs, we even got to sing them too!
Chinese Folk Song is a form of music through which the working classes have traditionally expressed their emotions and feelings. It is inspired by, and is an integral part of, everyday life of the Chinese working classes and is passed down and elaborated from generation to generation. Folk music features simple language and, vivid imagery, and has many genres and forms, such as labor songs, mountain songs, major aria, minor aria, and part singing.
Moreover, it is being said that Chinese folk songs can sound strange, even daunting, to Western ears. Nevertheless it is a very beautiful, deep and mysterious way of expressing ones feelings to the world.