"Huidong Fishing Song" is popular in various ports in Huidong County, Fangang, Renshan, Yanzhou New Fishing Village, Xunliao New Fishing Village and other places. Locals call it "Zhouzhou Song" or "City Song", which belongs to the category of "Yuedong Fishing Song". It is the same as the fishing songs of some coastal cities and counties in Guangdong Province, such as Shanwei, Haifeng, Baoan, Huiyang and other fishing villages, and the fishermen's customs and singing styles in the above places are basically the same. However, due to living in different areas for a long time, influenced by local customs, language, culture, temple fair music, local operas and folk tunes, the singing style of the same fishing song is slightly different and has its own characteristics.
Out of cherishing folk art, Ye Lin wrote a letter to the leaders of the provincial party committee, calling attention to the plight of the endangered Huidong fishing song, and talked about his own idea of saving Huidong fishing song. This letter was highly valued by Zhu and other provincial party Committee leaders. After instructions and copying, it will be distributed to governments at all levels.
There are more than 20 kinds of fishing songs in Huidong, such as "Ah, Ah, Xiang Diao", "Da Da Dao Du Diao", "He He Xiang Diao", "Xian Di Diao" and "Falling Tone". It is limited to fishermen singing on the boat, with solo and chorus. When fishermen live in groups, they take "duet songs" (that is, duet songs or duet songs) for fun, without musical instruments; Its melody has a strong charm of local opera music and temple fair music; The music structure of lyrics is mostly the upper sentence and the lower sentence, and it is a sentence pattern. The lyrics are concise and clear, which is of great reference and inspiration to the creation of modern lyrics.
Huidong's fishing songs were severely damaged in the ten-year catastrophe. After the fishermen who washed their feet ashore ushered in a new era, the fishing songs that were familiar to everyone before were gradually forgotten. Only in fishing village sacrifices, festivals, weddings and funerals, etc., can we hear the classic old fishing songs that make people want to stay.
Many songwriters came to Huidong fishing village to collect folk songs and created a large number of works with fishing songs as the theme. Huidong fishing songs are a valuable heritage in China Han regional culture, but they are also in danger of being lost.