民歌是劳动人民集体的口头诗歌创作。民歌,即民间歌谣,属于民间文学中的一种形式,能够歌唱或吟诵,多为韵文。民歌是人类历史上产生最早的语言艺术之一。我们的祖先,在生产劳动中,创造了音乐,唱出了最早的民间歌曲——劳动号子。原始的民歌,同人们的生存斗争密切相关,成了人们生活的重要组成部分。随着人类历史的发展、阶级的分化和社会制度的更新,民歌涉及的层面越来越广,其社会作用也显得愈来愈重要了。 Folk songs are collective poetic works of working people. Folk songs, that is, folk songs, belong to a form of folk literature. They can sing or chant, mostly verse. Folk songs are one of the earliest language arts in human history. Our ancestors created music in the productive labor and sang the earliest folk songs - the labor trumpet. The original folk songs are closely related to people’s struggle for existence and have become an important part of people’s lives. With the development of human history, the division of classes and the renewal of social systems, the level of folk songs involved has become more and more widespread, and its social role has become increasingly important.