Evening courting song of the Yao people 瑶族 of Guangdong, China
An evening courting song of the Yao people (瑶族) of China, performed by a male singer singing to a young woman outside the window of her home, with the female singer inside the house responding with her own song. This type of song is known in Yao culture as ou sha yao (讴莎瑶) or tian hei ge (天黑歌).
Probably filmed in Youling One Thousand Households Yao Village (油岭千户瑶寨, 油岭瑶寨, or 连南油岭民俗瑶寨), Youling village (油岭村), Sanpai town (三排镇), Liannan Yao Autonomous County (连南瑶族自治县), Qingyuan (清远市), northern Guangdong province, southern China, c. 2012. This is the area Chinese composer Liu Tieshan (刘铁山) visited in 1951, the local music he heard there inspiring him to write his 1952 piece Dance of the Yao People (Yao Zu Wu Qu) 《瑶族舞曲》, composed with fellow Chinese composer Mao Yuan (茅沅, b. 1926).
Numbering about 2.6 million, the Yao (Yao zu, 瑶族 in Chinese) are an ethnic group speaking a variety of languages in the Hmong-Mien language family. They live primarily in mountainous areas of the China's southwest and south, as well as in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and the United States. The Yao call themselves Mien, Mian, or Iu Mien, which means people.
讴莎瑶（夜下情歌）
情歌
一种是夜晚在姑娘家窗门口唱的，被称为“天黑歌”（又称“讴莎瑶”）
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