Strategies for Integrating Dehua Mountain Songs into Seventh-Grade Music Classrooms

With a profound historical lineage, Dehua Mountain Songs have consistently exerted a significant and dynamic influence across multiple historical epochs. As an art form that integrates literature and music, Dehua Mountain Songs combine literary and musical charm in a complementary manner, featuring vivid, natural, and approachable language with distinctive regional characteristics that hold significant historical and cultural research value. For music education, teachers should actively promote the integration of local ballads into school music teaching, innovate pedagogical approaches, create a favorable cultural atmosphere, and advance the deep integration of local ballads with music instruction, thereby better realizing the educational value of music. Based on the Compulsory Education Music Curriculum Standards which emphasize “highlighting the characteristics of music and emphasizing interdisciplinary integration” and “promoting national music and understanding the diversity of music culture,” this study systematically examines the regional cultural essence of Dehua Mountain Songs and investigates specific strategies for integrating them into seventh-grade music classrooms. Through teaching practice and critical reflection, actionable implementation pathways are proposed. The findings suggest that integrating Dehua Mountain Songs into junior high school music curricula can not only enrich music course resources but also enhance students’ cultural identity and national pride, providing an effective approach for the living transmission of intangible cultural heritage.