Cultural Duplicity: The Social Poetic Nature of Folk Songs and Their Discourse

There is a close relationship between the folk songs and the earth bound society in China, bearing functions of load transfer, expression, dissemination of information, and beauty aspiration, etc. Folk songs are mainly presented through voice and thus possess powerful cultural duplicity, which rightly represents the social poetic quality that both the local residents and the nation-state need to take advantage of. A flexible space of co-existence is thus provided with for both of them.