From National Aesthetic Psychology View The Miao Folk Song Style

The ethnic spirit goes through the ethnicity’s history. It is the concentrated reflection of the ethnic vitality, creativity and cohesion. It makes an ethnicity form the commonessential elements in consciousness, culture, folk customs, character, aesthetics and so on.From the perspective of the history of human development, music is the most importantpart of a culture. The number of music is almost equal to that of cultures. Each musicculture has its own characteristics, for example, Dong music is mild and gentle, Miaomusic is enthusiastic, while Buyi music is reserved and exquisite. Each ethnic music has itsown characteristics in mode, melody, rhythm, tonality, subject, musical instruments,singing, timbre, ways of performance, function, aesthetics and the like; even it is easy forthe alien to recognize the style of it. Music art form is the most common and prevalentform to express ethnic culture, custom, etc., In composing music, the ethnic music alwaysperforms a unique style, which reflects the ethnic cultural atmosphere, more exactly, theembodiment of the ethnic music aesthetic psychology. Different geographical environment,historical reasons and the life habits form different ethnic ideology, which directly affectsthe music itself. That is to say, each ethnicity has its own unique ethnic music aestheticpsychology, which directly decides the style of the ethnic music. The ethnicaesthetic psychology has been passing generation to generation, which also constraints andguides the production life and the artistic creation of its people in spirit.This article starts from the ethnic music aesthetic psychology, in terms of five statuses,four approaches, and three distributions, to explore the style of Miao folk song.