Yazhou folk song in Hainan

Yazhou folk song is one of the ancient styles of Hainan folk song. It is popular in Sanya, Huangliu village of Ledong county and the affiliated territory to ancient Yazhou. The old Yazhou folk song is still popular today. It is a kind of Chinese ballad intonated in Hakka dialect. The folk song has extremely precise rhythm and is an independent integration, originating from countryside of "West Six Kilometers" in ancient Yazhou and spreading all around.

Yazhou folk songs have extensive materials and rich contents. Most of the lyrics consist of seven characters, involving all fields of social life, such as humanity, history, landscape, production and labor. There are more than one hundred pieces of narrative long poem found. They are the rarities of Yazhou folk songs.

The melody of Yazhou folk song is graceful and pleasant. It contains work song, peddling tone, major key, tender key, sign tone, minor key, etc. Common songs include Seeing off the Beau Ten Times, Song of Scholar Liang, Song of Scholar Zhang, Meng Lijun, Park of Spring Forever and so on.

Two factors contributed to the formation of Yazhou folk song: one was the continuous settlement of the migrants from central China, who brought folk songs into Yazhou from various regions; the other is that after the migrants living together for a long time, local accent and folk custom of Yazhou came into being, and then evolved or generated the vulgar, strong dialectal Yazhou folk song with considerable local colors later.