State Road Ballad

With the development of Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Projects, the study on folk literature, especially on local ballads shows a good trend. In recent years, a large number of local ballads are included in the protection lists, such as Liu Sanjie Ballad and Huizhou(徽州) Ballad. This article selects the linguistic and cultural characteristics of Daozhou Ballad as the research objects, to have a better understanding and further study of Daozhou culture and reveal the influence of the regional culture on the content and language style of Daozhou Ballad. People are anticipated to pay more attention to Daozhou Ballad and play an active and actual role to protect them through this article.There are five parts in this article:Chapter one briefly introduces the development of the folk songs and ballads and the research task, significance and methods.Chapter two simply analyses the forms of Daozhou Ballad and gives several examples, such as labor songs, ceremony songs, life songs, love songs, children’s songs and etc.Chapter three elaborates the linguistic art of Daozhou Ballad, including its features of dialect vocabulary, language style and rhetoric, general characteristics.Chapter four mainly discusses the characteristics of the regional culture reflected by Daozhou ballad, such as Landscape Complex, Rice-farming Culture, Yao-Han Nationality customs, Ghost and god faith etc.Chapter five the conclusion part gives a summary of the main points, expressing some personal opinions on the decay of Daozhou Balld.