The Analysis On Labour Songs Of Folk Literature

It has been proved that the earliest form of literary art in human history is folk literature, that of folk literature, folk songs, and that of folk songs, labor songs. Since the folk labor songs invented by Tibetan ancestors in the labor process can date back to the time of theemergence of Tibetan language, there is no doubt that labor songs reflect the behavior, the way of thinking, the customs, the form of society and the cultural development of our ancestors. Therefore, tt is believed that labor songs are not only the root of Tibetan literary art and its development, but a mirror of ancient history of our ancestors as well. With Tibetan perspective of literary art coupled with literary theories of different culturalbackground and the application of comparative method, the thesis on the analysis of reference books has been divided into three chapters.The first chapter concerns the definition or the understanding of labor songs and their development. The development of labor songs is further categorized into three subcategories dealing with the origin, the definition, the development of forms as a result of social development, and current state of labor songs, and finally the decreasing numbers of labor songs with the changing forms of labor.The second chapter deals with the classification and characteristics of labor songs. In the course of history, a lot of forms of such labors as agriculture, animal husbandry and handicrafthave come into existence. There are around ten different kinds of labor songs with respective movements, tunes and lyrics reflecting laborer’s state of mind. The discussion of lyrics and wonderful tunes differing from other folk songs includes the features of matter subject, immaculate words of expression, tunes and the way of singing. It is also discussed that Labor songs being a part of folk literature provide writers with reference materials fortheir new writings which play an important role in maintaining and spreading the labor songs.The third chapter copes with the value of the research and thought on inheriting,maintaining and spreading the labor songs in the future. There are two sections in the chapter. The first section discusses the contribution of labor songs to the values of education, utilization and knowledge. The second section talks about the preservation of endangered and decreasing number of labor songs via plays on stage, their collection and documentation.