Folk songs and myths

Folk songs, or say folk rhythms, is always my favorite. Chinese folk songs, the pentatonic scale, the drums. The mongolian throat singing and matouqin, the Norwegian jaw harp, the Sami Yoik, the runic songs, the Romanian dances, and Balkan music mix with gypsy music. The african drums and dances. Pagan religions and mythology.

On feature is that it is usually something about the mythical "imaginary" (or not!) world where Nature being transformed into creatures that share the same language of human society. Even we have long forgotten the universal language Nature uses, we still tend to communicate with Nature in our own language. We imagine there are gods or giants control raining, thunder, lightening, snowing, and the sun. We imagined there were ten suns upon the sky that Houyi (whose wife flied to the moon because she took too much drug!) had to shoot nine of them down to save the earth.

All these are hidden inside the folk music. When it plays, you get to see the ancient world come alive again in front of your eyes.

Did you see the rabbit shape shadow on the moon?