Peter said, 19 19 During the period from February to September, Gu Jiegang, a famous historian from Suzhou, was influenced by Peking University's ballad collection activities, and specially collected more than 300 ballads in Wu. First, he took Wu as the general topic and published them in the Morning Post one after another. A few years later, Gu Jiegang selected one hundred of them, compiled them into a book and published them in the name of Wu Ji. Since then, others have compiled B, C, D, E and Ji. This is the third time in history that Wu Ge has been collected and sorted out (the first two times were in the Southern Dynasties and the Ming Dynasty respectively). 1999, these six books were combined and named "A Brief History of Wu Ge, Wu Ge", which was published by Jiangsu Ancient Books Publishing House. It is worth noting that in Wu Ji, the number of nursery rhymes and folk songs is 50% and 50% respectively, and it is also true in most subsequent dramas, which shows that nursery rhymes in Wu area are a very important part. Unfortunately, most of the collectors of these six episodes of Wu Ge are not from Wuxi, so there are only a few Wuxi nursery rhymes recorded in them. This time, everyone Qi Xin worked together to compile a collection, which showed us the rich remains of Wuxi nursery rhymes. On this basis, if someone can arrange, edit and publish, it can make up for the deficiency of the six episodes of Wu Ge, which is of great value to the arrangement and research of Wu culture in Wuxi.
The Wuxi nursery rhymes compiled by everyone this time are very rich in content; In terms of time, it also covers all periods from modern times to the present. No matter what kind of content it is, no matter when it was formed, most of it conforms to Mr. Gu Jiegang's definition of nursery rhymes: "Children's songs are songs that express children's excitement, or songs with harmonious phonology, or songs that combine associations, or songs that play naughty jokes. These songs are completely different from the following four categories (the author refers to' rural women's songs',' boudoir women's songs',' men's songs' and' miscellaneous songs') and describe life in an orderly way. " This "set of associations" makes nursery rhymes different from ordinary folk songs, that is, their meaning is often between solvable and unsolvable, which is quite nonsense, such as the following song "Kang Ling Malaya": "Kang Ling is coming, and the elder sister next door is back. What side dishes? Stir-fried shrimps, frogs tread on old crows, old crows complain, and tell King Wen. " King Wen sells cloth, sells his brother-in-law, who closes the door, turns off flies, picks up turtles, and the turtles fart all over the floor. "The reason why nursery rhymes are particularly interesting and funny is precisely because of this" nonsense "style. In addition to "set association", nursery rhymes of children's songs often use rhetorical devices such as thimble, repetition and repetition. Create a particularly harmonious melody. In this smooth and crisp singing, children's childlike innocence can be fully expressed.
Scholars in Ming Dynasty talk about children's songs, saying that children's songs are "solid and harmless" and meaningless, that is, useless. This is actually a very one-sided view. In contrast, Zhou Zuoren's statement is relatively straightforward: "As long as nursery rhymes are harmless, they are good. As for academic research, it is harmful and important. " Zhou Zuoren also summed up the role of nursery rhymes in academic research: folklore scholars believe that ballads are the expression of national psychology, educators know that ballads are children's natural needs, so they comply with this requirement and provide them with suitable materials. Literary scholars know that there are many materials in folk songs for us to learn the style and methods of law. Speaking of the last point, Mr. Qian Zhongshu's point of view coincides with it. He said that in proverbs and exegesis, people often inadvertently say incisive opinions in a few words, which is beneficial to their reason; Deducting them will make a great contribution to literary theory. " Therefore, in his "Tube Cone" and other books, he will "enthusiastically" use nursery rhymes such as "Beaver is full of stains, leaping over the South Mountain ..." to demonstrate the meaning of "Xing" as "touching things to interest" in the Book of Songs, and "12 1 2/. The blind man saw it, and the dumb man shouted it out. The deaf Peng heard it, caught up with it, broke his hand, and caught the phenomenon of "saying things were abnormal". As for the value of local folk songs and nursery rhymes in dialectology, it goes without saying; Therefore, when Feng Menglong compiled Folk Songs in the Ming Dynasty, Wu Ge compiled by Gu Jiegang and others, including children's songs, strictly used Wu dialect pronunciation to maintain its "original ecology"; Today, these books have become extremely valuable materials for dialect scholars to study the situation of Wu dialect at that time. From this point of view, it is not a good idea for the sponsor of Wuxi Bar to put forward "writing it down in Mandarin".