[摘要]河阳山歌是古代东夷族中一只干族部落的原创山歌，它将劳动、人的天性、宗教、模仿四大因素巧妙的融合在一起，它是张家港市南部劳动人民自己的歌，有着数千年的历史。原中国文联主席周巍峙曾经用这样四句话来定义其价值：人民的心声、民族的情义、国家的瑰宝、世界的奇葩。它是中华民族民间文化的瑰宝，是民族民间音乐中不可获取额的一部分。本文通过对河阳山歌的简要介绍，使得大家大概了解它的发展历史。通过对其风格特征的分析，使得人们能从他的歌词、唱法、旋律上了解它的一些特征，并能对其有一个更深层次的了解，从而对于人们欣赏、学唱河阳山歌起到一定的作用，并且能够促进河阳山歌的繁荣与发展。

[关键词]河阳山歌； 风格特征； 文化传承

[Abstract]HeYang song river in ancient east YiZu dry tribe original folk songs only, it will be labor, human nature, religion, imitate the four major factors skillfully fuses in together, it is zhangjiagang city southern labor people's own song, has a history of thousands of years. Original Zhou Weishi, chairman of the China federation has to define its value in such four words: kindness of the people, nation, national treasure, the world wonders. It is the treasure of Chinese national folk culture, it is not to obtain the frontal part of the national folk music. Through to the Herang song river are briefly introduced in this paper, make everybody know about the development history of it. Through the analysis of the characteristics of its style, enables people to learn from his lyrics and singing, melody some of its characteristics, and to have a deeper understanding to it, for people to appreciate and learn singing river Herang play a role, and can promote the prosperity and development of the Herang song river. 

[Key words]HeYang song river;  Style characteristic;  Cultural heritage