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.
Most of the poems dedicated to children are very distinctive. Tang Jianwu's Poems for Girls: "A girl, only six years old, is not smart or clumsy. In front of the night hall, worship the new moon. " In a few words, the image of a self-defeating and innocent girl is vividly presented to readers. Mao Mingxuan's maiden poem: "A new girl gets up. Know how to be "ashamed to meet people" and how to cover up your shame with "cronyism by hand" to make the image of the girl in Seeds of Love come alive. These two poems are all about the childishness of children. Don Cui Daorong wrote in Mushu: "Mushu holds a hat and is proud of being loved by everyone. The lying cow plays piccolo, but plows the fields by the stream. The last two sentences highlight the word "wisdom", that is, its "proud" capital: it can not only drive cattle to plow the fields, but also play the flute. Obviously, this poem shows the wisdom of children with their pride. Don Hu Lingneng wrote in "Children Fishing": "A bald little boy learned to hang on the bow of the boat, sit by the raspberry-like moss and reflect his body. Passers-by waved far away, and he was afraid that the fish would not surprise people. " The details of "passers-by asking questions" and "waving from a distance" that he didn't answer made the child's emergency mode more vivid and his personality more distinct. This poem, with his intellectual attitude, can be described as a child's concentration. Besides, Tao Yuanming, a great poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Yang Wanli, a great poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, made ice with young children, and Boqin Wen Zi, made friends with teenagers.
Ancient poetry is full of fun and varied brushwork, which is worthy of being used by contemporary poets to create excellent children's poems with the characteristics of the times.