Folk songs, simply called "ballads," are an integral part of oral literature. Generally speaking, the songs that can be sung on the composition are called songs, and the songs that are only hummed and not sung are called ballads. In the vast land of Zongyang, it is called humming a small tune. There is also a kind of "door song" that was popular during the Spring Festival with gongs and drums. However, this kind of "door song" in which a single or double person enters the village door to door and beg for a small amount of money is not favored by the villagers, and is usually called "playing a big quack".
Maybe people of a certain age still have an impression of those old nursery rhymes. For example: "Fireflies, a little red, my brother rides a horse, I ride a dragon; My brother rode a horse and walked on the street, and I rode the old Longjiang River; The group came to the father-in-law's house, and the mother-in-law and mother-in-law planted golden flowers. raised a son who can write, a daughter who can embroider, the eldest daughter embroiders a Ganoderma lucidum umbrella, and the second daughter embroiders a peony flower; The youngest daughter couldn't embroider, so she had to close the door and make shoes. ”
In the old days, the cultural life of rural people was monotonous and boring, and the ancestors would often spontaneously hum and sing songs while working in order to activate labor and production and mobilize their passion, whether they were driving cattle to do the fields or bending over to cultivate grass in the rice fields, they would sing a few ancient songs to relieve their boredom or be invited to relieve the fatigue of others.
When the author was in middle school, he witnessed the ancestors building the dam and hummed a kind of "tamping ballad" in unison: "The stone ramming is round and heavy, the new soil is loose and soft, everyone is vigorous, the stone ramming hammers down, the board is knotted, the foundation is stable, and the rice rolls home in the coming year......" This kind of ballad, accompanied by the rhythm of labor, combined with labor behavior, has the unique effects of coordinating actions, directing labor, and inspiring emotions. Such a shocking scene was not uncommon in the sixties and seventies of the last century, when the river embankment was repaired. Similarly: "Hit the tamping high, pick the white rice home; Good tamping, white rice running home......"
In the small village of Qianjia Maiyuanzhuang, in the past, there were several elders and grandmothers, although their education was low, they had never forgotten in terms of learning to sing songs. Whether it is a field on the edge of the field, a threshing floor at the head of the village, or a festival at the end of the year, or when enjoying the cool on a summer night, people will improvise a few words at any time, and some can also be sung as a play, and the most impressive to the author is the following ancient songs:
One. nursery rhyme
01. Come to pee ghosts, a little bit long; Cotton (cotton, dialect sound, play) quilt, basking in the sun......
02. Point the feet bend, the mouse goes up the mountain;
Three yards, four yards, and rats against the wall.
03. Small flat head, climbing the wall, a tile, playing the head,
Daddy touches, grandma rubs, rubs a little flat head.
04. Short man is short, a belly monster (naughty), drill chicken village,
Eat adobe, clods of soil. (Chicken Village: Chicken Coop)
05. Moon Ba come with me, pick up a copper coin and make soju;
Take a few steps, take a sip, take a piece of tea and dry it,
Half of the puppies (referring to small children) are also left.
06. Little Red Lady, wearing a hat, touching the screws, eating the duck (dialect, seven); Ducks lay eggs and eat them; Child's poop for dogs to eat; The dog caretaker (ga), the whole family is stained.
07. Newborn noisy night ballads:
The sky is yellow, the ground is yellow, I have a noisy night lang in my house,
Passing by Mr. read it again, my son woke up to the light of day.
08. One will cry, one will laugh, the little flower dog, come to carry the sedan chair;
Carry it to the witch temple, and the witch god does not want it;
Throwing it into the water, Gollum Knock is gone.
09. Big Moon, Little Moon, Brother Get Up and Play Mahjong,
My sister-in-law got up to hit the soles of my shoes, and my mother got up to fry fried rice,
Stir-fry to give Xiao Yan a mouth (dialect sound, pronounced ji).
010. Little deflated mouth, stealing cucumbers, the eldest lady caught her mouth;
Auntie, don't be embarrassed, I'll steal cucumbers and eat them.
011. Heavy snow flies, freezing turtles to death;
The turtle pulls its head and freezes the old cow to death;
The old cow drank water and froze to death the imp.
012. My mother-in-law loves her grandson, just like flying a kite;
The kite broke the string, and it was difficult to see each other for three years.
013. Pull the big skull, the board is small, and pull a carp 18 catties;
The big fish are kept for themselves to eat, and the small fish are brought to the next door.
014. Slap your thighs, sing a minor tune, and there is cotton and rice,
There are also fried six grains with six grains. A cotton tree picks a pound,
A rice plant hits one liter, and a handful of six grains are eaten in the middle.
Two. ballad
01. The fan fan is always in the hand;
I was asked to borrow, please until mid-August.
02. The son wore Lao Tzu's clothes, and Lao Tzu smiled in the back;
The daughter wore her mother's dress, and her mother couldn't stop crying in the back.
03. Crying and mourning ballads:
The son's crying was earth-shattering, and the daughter-in-law cried hypocrisy,
The daughter cried with a snotty face, and the son-in-law cried and the dog and the donkey farted.
04. On the third day of March, the cat (dialect, frog) quacks,
People weave cloth, I spin yarn. All the sisters-in-law are married,
My sister-in-law is still at home. (The girl is old and unmarried, be careful of the sister-in-law in the count)
05. Little black dog, you look after the house, I go to the field to pick cotton;
The cotton didn't pull a few flowers, and a pair of matchmakers came to my house. ，
didn't say a word clearly, the sesame seeds were fried full of stars;
Sweep the strip, the dustpan, and give the matchmaker to eat the heel.
06. The girl in the mountains cried to the river, reluctant to cook porridge with firewood;
The girl by the river cried to the side of the mountain, reluctant to have two pieces of meat on the face of the mullet (bonito, also known as the black fish) (pronounced yu).
07. Bigfoot, street shop; Weigh pork, under the noodles;
A bowl for the male, a bowl for the mother-in-law, there is no me in the pot after eating,
He also has big feet to wash the dishes (here big feet are borrowed from the daughter-in-law).
08. Chickens and chickens, you are not strange, you are a bowl of vegetables from the Yang family;
took off his sweater and changed his cloth clothes, and the next generation cast a good tire.
09. My sister-in-law got married, and the sharp knife pierced the heart;
The aunt got married and tore her clothes.
010. It rains and rains in the sky, and husbands and wives fight without holding grudges;
During the day, the fight was bloody, and at night it was still flesh to flesh (read "yu" in dialect).
011. The scimitar is against the scoop to cut vegetables, and the pot is against the lid of the pot;
Everyone burns the pot (burning the pot, borrowing the wife) everyone loves, and you are angry with you.
012. A good dog doesn't bite a chicken, and a good man doesn't beat his wife.
Good dogs don't get in the way, and good fields plant more rice.
013. Relying on the mountains and the mountains, relying on the water and the water is deep, relying on the roots and firewood, and it is a big hollow. (In the old days, a kind of folk song lamenting that fate was not as good as others)
014. Seventy still does small work, eighty voices are like a bell, ninety is full of running (lane, dialect sound), the centenarian birthday star is a famous star.
Three. Puzzle
One point is one horizontal, one to Zongyang; There is a person in Zongyang, only an inch long. (Mystery: House)
The appendix section is intriguing
01. Raising seeds like seeds, winter melons like (dialect sound, sauce) bucket (referring to strong genetics).
02. Salty three pieces, light three pieces, not salty and not light and three pieces (derogatory, in the old days, used to describe gluttonous women).
03. Don't buy it at home, don't take it when you go out; If there is smoke, eat (dialect sound, seven), and quit if there is no smoking (cover); I don't blame people for not handing it over. (A kind of self-deprecation of the smoker)
04. 奤奤 (hǎ) cats also catch mice, and the husband is also in charge.
05. Learn from the good and learn from the beggars.
06. Men are afraid of getting into the wrong business, and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man.
07. The hook nail head is large, and the crucian carp has many bones (dialect sound, card),
If it's delicious, how can there be many?
08. Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and rats give birth to burrows in the ground.
09. Read the book a hundred times, and its meaning will be seen by itself.
010. Crops and flowers depend on fertilizer.
011. Teenagers are not in a hurry, and their twenties are like a rope (in the past, it was used to describe carefree children and teenagers, always feeling that time passed very slowly, and once they entered adulthood, they sighed that the days of flowing water were surprisingly fast).
012. When the cultivated land is plowed deeply, the loess turns into gold.
013. People don't learn to lag behind, and knives don't sharpen to rust.
014. The throat is as deep as the sea, eat a broken bucket of gold (persuade people to live, advocate frugality, and don't be extravagant and wasteful).
015. Insiders look at the doorway, laymen look at the liveliness.
016. If you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, you are afraid of comparing goods.
017. The duck gizzard is difficult to peel, and the human heart is difficult to touch. (It tells us that there are two things in this world that cannot be looked at, one is the sun, and the other is the human heart).
018. There are a hundred people, colorful (meaning "the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds").
019. Ten fingers have a length and a lotus flower has a high or low water (everyone's ability is different).
020. People are more angry than others (referring to not comparing others with yourself).
021. Eating bread and putting your neck on your neck (referring to the fact that there is no free lunch in the world.) Take the short-handed hand).
022. Go out to see the sky, enter the door to see the face (emphasis on the latter sentence).
023. Ask for directions and ask the old man. Chop wood and chop small heads. (A metaphor for a daily life skill)
024. The neighbor's mouth changes its mouth (dialect sound, several), and relatives salute it.
025. People ride horses, I ride donkeys, and there are not as good as (contented people are always happy).
026. One person and one me, not for deliciousness;
One person and two people, but delicious. (Refers to a kind of etiquette at the dinner table)
027. Xiao Yan doesn't listen to the old man, and he suffers a loss and is fooled in front of him.
The songs that circulate in the villages of Zongyang are rich in content and diverse in form, such as "Ten Persuasion Ballads for Men", "Ten Persuasion Ballads for Gambling", "Twelve Female Ballads", and so on. This kind of ballad uses the rhyme of the verse and the persuasion of the good of others, so this kind of ballad is also called "persuasion poetry".
Author: Qian Xinhua