Shan'ge

Shan'ge (Chinese: 山歌; pinyin: shāngē) is a genre of Chinese folk song, akin to a ballad.^[1]. 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.