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Historical Classification of Children's Songs
At the beginning of the hit TV series "Mountain River Order" some time ago, there is such a ballad that runs through the whole drama:

All corners of the country, the world will, who will the Wulin Supreme Club abandon?

The clouds are scattered and the glass is broken. Who shares the sorrow with the ghost of Qingyashan?

Watching TV, you will find that this song is spread by children's singing. However, for children, they don't really understand the meaning of this children's song, just think it may have a beautiful rhythm and sing well.

It is from this nursery rhyme that we can capture some prehistoric footprints of China's children's literature and see what the children's literature was like at that time.

The following is an overview of nursery rhymes and nursery rhymes in the first section of the first chapter of China Children's Literature History:

1. Folk songs-folk songs and nursery rhymes

2. Folk stories-myths, legends, fairy tales, fables and stories

1896, Wei Dali, an Italian in the late Qing Dynasty, edited children's songs in Beijing.

19 18, Peking University established a folk song collection office.

1922, Ballad Weekly was published, and the nursery rhymes published in it were named Children's Songs.

Primitive society, impromptu songs, the most typical are mother songs and children's songs.

Liezi Zhong Ni records the earliest nursery rhymes in ancient literature. Some people say that Zhou Xuanwang's nursery rhymes originated from nursery rhymes.

At this time, nursery rhymes were regarded as vassals of feudal theology and as "illusion theory"

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Yang Shen included children's songs in "Ancient and Modern Folk Songs" and the series of "Children's Words" by Lu Desheng and Lv Kun.

In Kangxi 1662 of Qing Dynasty, 46 children's songs from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces were included in the Collection of Teana, and the other two were edited by Zheng.

Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty 1 1 year 1872 "Guang Tian Lai Ji" included 24 children's songs in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, edited by Wu Chi.

In the eighth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1882), the first volume of Yue Yan was edited by Fan Yin.

1896, Italian Wei Dali arranged children's songs in Beijing and collected 170 popular children's songs in Beijing.

1990, an American, He Delan, compiled "The Sons' Song", collected 140 children's songs and published them in new york.

1906, Wu compiled Ballads and collected 8 1 children's songs, most of which were written for children's songs.

In modern times, after the establishment of the new education system, children's newspapers, children's monthly magazines, boys' world, learning and raising a newspaper, children's nursery rhymes teaching materials, the latest women's and children's singing books, and students' songs necessary for education appeared.

Children's songs: short poems with the characteristics of the times and the artistic style of folk songs, which can be sung and sung by children. P74

These folk nursery rhymes were called nursery rhymes in ancient times. P9 1

Children's Poetry: Generally speaking, it is aimed at children who can read. Compared with children's songs, the content is deeper and wider, the thought is implicit, the structure is complex, the length is longer, and the form is closer to free verse. P 104

Children's songs: a kind of children's poems. It is a short poem that can be sung and sung in rhyming form, which meets the requirements of children's appreciation and is loved by children.

Children's songs in ancient China were called nursery rhymes, nursery rhymes, nursery rhymes and nursery rhymes. The name "Children's Songs" became popular only after the May 4th Movement.

Children's poetry: refers to an art form that takes children as the creation object, conforms to children's psychological and aesthetic characteristics, and expresses ideas in the most emotional, concise, rhythmic and branched language, including children's poems created by adults and children's own poems. P88

Summary:

1. Children's songs are equivalent to nursery rhymes, which can be sung in different stages of history, and are also the floorboard of short poems that children love to hear.

2. Children's poems and children's songs belong to poems, but the objects are different. Children's songs are mainly aimed at children, and children's songs are mainly aimed at literate children. Therefore, children's poems are deeper and wider in content, more complex in structure and more implicit in feelings than children's songs.

Through this chapter, we can easily find that at the beginning of the development history of children's literature in China, nursery rhymes were not really created for children, but were used as a tool.

Just like in the TV series "The Order of Mountains and Rivers", this nursery rhyme runs through the whole story, that is, Ke Wen, the owner of Ghost Valley, deliberately let people spread it out to disturb the rivers and lakes in order to avenge his parents.

This also reminds me of the silk found in the belly of fish in the early days of Guangwu Uprising in Chen Sheng, and the singing of children's mouths in Da Chu Xing, Chen Wangsheng. This is not the usage of nursery rhymes.

Zhou Zuoren once said: "Those who have recorded nursery rhymes in the history of books have this intention and are listed in the five elements." China, a beggar, watches nursery rhymes, but he doesn't think children sing, and thinks that ghosts and gods rely on them to predict, which is far from enough. "Zhou Zuoren's words are aimed at the famous ancient nursery rhyme" Huo Ying said ".

Fortunately, however, our children don't need to be forced to accept such nursery rhymes now.

From ancient nursery rhymes to today's nursery rhymes, this great change is the result of the hard work of generations of writers and educators who care about children and China's children's literature.

I hope every child can freely sing beautiful nursery rhymes made for them.