Fourteen is fourteen, forty is forty;
Don't say you are happy at forty, and don't say you are happy at fourteen.
If you want to say four and ten well, it depends on your tongue and teeth.
Say four, the tongue touches the teeth;
If you want to say ten, don't straighten your tongue.
Study hard and practice often, fourteen, forty, forty-four.
Tongue twisters can be traced back to the era of the Yellow Emperor more than 5,000 years ago. Fortunately, "Playing Songs" preserved in ancient books is said to have been written by the Yellow Emperor. According to textual research, this is a ballad close to the original form, in which the basic component of tongue twisters-disyllabic rhyming words have been formed. Presumably, tongue twisters sprouted in the spoken language of working people in China before the appearance of words.
With the formation and development of language, our ancestors paid more and more attention to the similarities and differences between the pronunciation of Chinese characters and found more and more disyllabic words. The relationship between these polyphonic rhymes is not handled well and is easily entangled and confused; If it is handled well, it can produce extraordinary phonological beauty. This makes some people think of finding rules, practicing pronunciation and training oral expression. As a result, they began to consciously combine some homophonic words, deliberately beating around the bush and turning them into rows of sentences to teach children to read and recite. Some voices are loud, awkward and humorous, which not only children like, but also many young people like.
In this way, when one person sings or several people sing in unison, it is passed down from mouth to mouth and spread among the people. In the process of communication, people constantly modify, process, enrich and improve it, making it more similar to humorous ballads and more interesting. As for the specific author and reviser of tongue twisters, people have never paid attention to them at all. Therefore, it doesn't matter which tongue twister is whose work.