Shan'ge
Shan'ge (Chinese: 山歌; pinyin: shāngē) is a genre of Chinese folk song. They are commonly sung in rural provinces; the word "Shan'ge" means "mountain song".
A number of different subtypes are:
- Hua'er, a form popular in the Northwestern Chinese provinces such as Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai, named to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009
- Xintianyou and Shanqu are popular in Shaanxi and Shanxi
- Zhengjinghong, from the Anhui province
- Xingguo, from the Jiangxi province
- Hengyang from the Hunan Province
- Hakka hill song (Kejia shan'ge) from the Guangdong Province
- Lalu, a Tibetan shan'ge
- Changdiao (aradun-urtu-yin-daguu), a Mongolian shan'ge
- Feige, a Miao shan'ge
Further reading
- Oki, Yasushi; Paolo Santangelo (2011). Shan'ge, the Mountain Songs: Love Songs in Ming China. Leiden: BRILL. - Volume 2 of the series "Emotions and States of Mind in China and East Asia".
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