Translate the following paragraph into Chinese. F olksong is one of the best indicators of the nature of any given culture. I t is also one of the more pleasant ways of approach, to study the values and the fundamental experience of any nation, any land. American folksong is particularly rich, both because it inherited the old songs of the British Isles and because for more than three centuries, the American people have been a singing people, adapting the old European ballads and storysongs as they settled the American frontier and making new storysongs. F ar better than any other form of American culture, far more directly, folksong (and its contemporary relative “ country music ” ) tells us of the dreams and aspirations, the sorrows and affirmations, the joys and tragedies of the common people. O ne of the important aspects of folksong is “ oral tradition, ” the living stream of songs handed down orally from one generation to another.