Poems about children

Innocent, lively and lovely children have been the object of poets' chanting since ancient times. In China's first collection of poems, The Book of Songs, there is a poem about children: "Young Yu Pei" ("Feng Wei Ge Lan"). Nv Jiao Poem, a 280-word poem by Zuo Si, a poet in the Western Jin Dynasty, can be said to be one of the earliest children's poems in the history of classical poetry in China.

In the history of China's classical poetry, both poems about children and poems dedicated to children are mostly poetic and childlike. Poems about children are more prominent: Ye Songshao Weng's "Knowing that children promote weaving, a night light falls over the fence" ("What I saw in the night book") contrasts the poet's worries about living outside with carefree children catching crickets while picking up the fence; Song Leizhen's "The Cowboy Comes Back to Cross the Cow's Back, and the Piccolo Blows Without a Cavity" ("Village Night") renders the interest of village life and the charming twilight scene of the mountain village with the sound of the shepherd boy's piccolo; Ding's poem "Children come back early from school, so they are busy flying kites in the east wind" ("Village House") uses lively children to fly kites in the blue sky to set off beautiful spring scenery. These poems involving children mainly serve as a foil to the whole poem, but the children in the poems are not the protagonists. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Yang Wanli's poem "Children rush to chase Huang Die and fly into cauliflower, but there is nowhere to find it" ("Duke Xu of New Town"), children become the protagonists in the poem. Here, through the description of children, the poet makes the innocent and lively image of children jump from the paper, which is interesting and wonderful.