Mengwa Shi Xue Guanluo (Excerpt)

After work, it was still early, so I drove Xiao Qi out to play. Seeing that she was in a good mood on the way, I read Guan Ju from The Book of Songs to her. I haven't taken her to learn the Book of Songs before, and the text of the Book of Songs is a bit difficult to understand. Last time, a friend said that there were 300 "Book of Songs", one song a day, and it was finished in one year. Think about it, too. Anyway, a year has been wasted. Ten minutes a day, a year is not a small accumulation. However, the Book of Songs is not very easy for children to understand and has been circulated for thousands of years. I'm afraid the meaning and connotation of many poems have long been different from the original expression, so I can only recite them by myself. This song Guanju was still memorized at school, and it is the most familiar one in the Book of Songs. I'll take her to try it today. If I can try to recite it, I'll start learning it slowly in the future.

"Guan Guan Luo Yu, in the rivers and lakes, a gentle and graceful lady, a gentleman is good."

After that, it's the singing of birds. A pair of waterfowl are singing in the middle of the river. That beautiful girl is really a gentleman and wife.

I beat the time, and Teacher Qi followed suit, mm-hmm. I don't think she can understand this content. Just like this "Guan Guan", I really can't imagine what bird is called like this, but I read a sentence a long time ago that the pronunciation of ancient Chinese is very different from today's. At that time, it was accompanied by an archaic version of The Book of Songs, which was completely incomprehensible. It was a bit like Cantonese today, maybe it was the "customs" of ancient Chinese.

The first sentence Ji recited so quickly that even I scrambled to recite it, only to find that the language "The Book of Songs" was really nice to recite in her childish voice.

"Guan Guan-"

"Dove ~" rose in pitch, as if singing.

"What's the next sentence?" I asked her.

Chickens are singing and dancing: "The pigeons in Guanguan are in Hezhou ~"

"My gentle and graceful-"

"My fair lady, a gentleman good Qiu ~"

Xiao Qi Ji created her own tone. Every time the last two words are flat, she sings "Known" and "Qiu Hao" in the same tone, which is very nice.

"Staggered shepherd's purse, flowing from left to right, my fair lady, asking for it."

The ragged shepherd's purse was on both sides of the boat, and I was busy picking it. That beautiful girl, I miss her day and night.

I read this sentence in my own tone again, and the more I read it, the more I like it. I was going to listen to her sing this song after teaching the whole song, but the poems behind are somewhat similar, and the pure girl is at a loss.

I read her a few words "I'm so happy, I'm so sleepy, I'm so comfortable, I'm so tossing and turning", and then I asked her "I'm so happy, I'm so sleepy-"

"Ask for it!" The innocent girl still spoke in a brisk tone, but she was confused by the last sentence. Anyway, the Book of Songs is difficult to understand. Let's recite these two sentences first and tell her slowly in a few days. The harvest is not small, at least I heard Guan Ju's children's rap version, haha ~

The Book of Songs Official Luo (excerpt)

Pre-Qin anonymous

Guan Guan Luo Qiu, in Hezhou, is a gentle and graceful lady and a gentleman.

Uneven shepherd's purse, flowing from left to right, my fair lady, asked for it.