Xiaoshan Nursery Rhymes
Nursery rhymes refer to songs sung by children without music scores. Nursery rhymes have a history of thousands of years in our country. Xiaoshan's old nursery rhymes may have dozens of sentences, or only one or two sentences, but no matter how long or short they are, they are all concise, lively, catchy, and easy to sing. There is a nursery rhyme in Xiaoshan at the end of the Han Dynasty that goes: "The emperor will rise between Sanyu in the southeast." This ancient nursery rhyme can be said to be the earliest nursery rhyme in Xiaoshan that has survived to this day. Sanyu: refers to Yuji (the name of Xiaoshan County in the Western Han Dynasty), Yuyao and Yuhang.
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Kick-kick pull pull
cross Nanshan
and Yutu Mountain
soup can Dalu
Falling down and falling into
When I was a child, several children were playing together. The leading child would often call out, "Let's kick our feet and pull our feet." The child responded immediately. So they sat in a long row on a long stone bench and straightened their feet. The leader took a small bamboo stick and chanted: "Kick the kick..." The bamboo stick pointed at the tip of the toe. Just read one word until the last word is finished. Whoever the word falls on has to consciously stand up and stand aside until the last word is reached. If the interest is not exhausted, several children will gather together and continue to sit together, repeating the above games and enjoying it endlessly.
There is a nursery rhyme from a game that I still remember freshly in my mind. It was about two friends who were together in childhood. When interest arises, let’s “hunt buckwheat,” okay? The other party said yes, so the two of them stroked their hands back and forth a few times, chanted and clapped their palms to each other:
One basket, two baskets of wheat, three baskets and started beating buckwheat
< p>Crack, crackleLet’s thresh the wheat
There is a lot of wheat and the wheat is good
Making steamed buns with wheat flour
Fragrant and sweet
...
This kind of game can cultivate the spirit of mutual cooperation among children and exercise their mental reaction sensitivity.
When I was a child, in the summer, after dinner, the dining table was wiped clean, and the family sat on the ground in front of the house to enjoy the cool air. The children would lie on the table and count the stars in the night sky.
One star, Dixin Ding
Two stars, hanging oil bottle
Oil bottle leaks, good fried beans
Beans Fragrant, make hot sauce
Hot sauce is spicy, marry an otter
An otter has a long tail
Marry an uncle, who is deaf
Marry a tailor, a tailor Move slowly
Marry a goose and the goose will fly
Fly to the sky and fall to the sky full of stars
This nursery rhyme sounds like a jingle. The story inside It is coherent and rhythmic, but no one can tell the specific storyline if it wants to break the casserole pattern (ask) to the end. When I asked the adults what they meant, the adults' answers seemed to be as if they had agreed: These are all passed down from the elders. It is unknown which generation it was passed down from, and there is no way to verify it.
What impressed me most when I was a child was a nursery rhyme that echoed from beginning to end and repeated in a loop:
A man with dysentery takes a foreign gun
Hit a tiger with a foreign gun
< p>The tiger holds the child in its mouthThe child holds the rooster
The rooster pecks the bee
The bee sneers at the leprosy
This nursery rhyme comes from "the leprosy takes the foreign food" Judging from the content of "gun", the origin of the gun is only more than a hundred years old, roughly during the Revolution of 1911.
When I was a child, there were almost no toys that adults bought with money. However, the flax straw and wheat straw at home, the branches and leaves in front and behind the house, and bamboo poles and leaves were readily available and could be made into various toys. Plant small toys. There is a nursery rhyme about using a piece of wheat straw to make a "chuidudu".
Barley Guanguan
Wheat Guanguan
Big tiger in the barley field
Little tiger in the wheat field
Grandpa and grandma, make me a chududu
Blow loudly
Give you a big copper coin
Blow it low
I’ll give you a little copper coin
Blow bang, blow bang.
As soon as summer comes, children go to rivers and ponds to bathe. However, it is not hot yet and the river water is cooler. Some children can’t wait to jump into the river to wash. At this time, adults will Tell a ballad:
The neem tree blooms
Take a bath and buy a coffin
The neem tree flowers fade
Wash all day long
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After all, the number of nursery rhymes I knew and could recite when I was a child was limited, and I had forgotten most of them. Before writing this nursery rhyme, I specifically asked my husband-in-law and mother-in-law next door for advice. I also asked my father-in-law and mother-in-law for advice. My mother-in-law said that these "gossips" about little Gechenguang were so frequent that Gechenguang had forgotten about him.
When I was a little girl, my uncle and aunt could talk like this:
Little big girl dressed up pretty
Selling clothes with parcels on her back
Sold as far as Huizhou Mountain
The Huizhou Dynasty invited Yi to eat rice
What chopsticks? Ivory chopsticks
Which bowl? Gold-rimmed white jade bowl
What kind of rice? Three morning white rice
Which dish? Side dishes Jiaoguanxin
Boss's crucian carp meat embedded with essence
Yellow sprouts and chives with duck eggs
Green shell snails stuck in the buttocks,
Hu sheep tail Too oily.
My dear, there were a lot of leprosy in the village. At that time, people who had leprosy on their heads would become leprous if they were not treated well. You see, there are leprosy now, our little Chenguang When he sees a leper, he will say:
A leper is a leper
Carries a load of tung oil to sell
Tung oil is spilled
A leper begs for food
< p>Begged for three broken copper platesBought three broken bamboos
Built three broken thatched houses
Dong Ye Leo
< p>The water also leakedThe leakage caused the yellow and smelly urine on the leprosy head
When I was a child, some people didn’t even make cotton-padded jackets. As soon as the sun came out, they would dry them on their heads on the porch. Taiyang's words:
Mr. Taiyang came suddenly
My brother and sister got up
The white copper fire started to bake
The white rice was confused Eat it
Wear the silver bracelet
Apply the white alabaster paste
......
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My father-in-law continued the topic and said that nowadays, people who talk about such "gossip" are almost dead, and I didn't talk too much when I was young. I remember when I was little, I often saw fishermen on the Guan River. Some children would come up and make fun of them when they saw someone fishing:
The fishing pole is straight
Fishing for cat food
< p>The fishing rod is bentThe fishing rod is slippery
The fishing rod is slippery
Fishing catches fire snakes
This fishing guy is a Hearing such words from a group of naughty children, the man was so angry that he quickly took a fishing rod and went fishing in another place.
Children often go fishing for shrimps, but fishing for shrimps is not easy. Often the red crickets on the hook are eaten up by the old shrimps, and the shrimps just don’t catch them. The shrimps are more powerful than this. People are smarter. It first eats the red crickets on the hook from the back of the hook, and finally only the empty hook is left. At this time, the child will say:
Old Shrimp
Eat my red cricket
Eat well
I will wear one for you Dahongpao
You will not be imprisoned if you eat it
I will give you a big water prison
Eat my hook and you will not die
Eat my hook I will die on my back
I will die immediately if I come with my big feet
I will die immediately if my little feet come and I will go to heaven
In fact, this is a child trying to trick the old shrimp man, because he is smart. It was fooled. If this old shrimper eats red crickets, catches them and cooks them, he will wear a red robe. Don't come to eat red crickets, don't fish them in the water, just pretend it's a water prison. If this old shrimp was duller, he would be dead after hearing such words. You don't think the "gossip" that children tell is interesting.
There are also a few "gossips" that are also made up by children who are clever.
Radish and roadside grass
If you want to eat it, don’t ask for it
If you ask for it, it will “turn the stove”
Criticize it for being burned by the sky
>If you eat someone else's carrot, don't let others criticize you. You tell this child not to be unreasonable, but if you try to reason with a child, the truth will never be clear.
When I was a child, I went to the fields to cut goat grass in February and March. There were a lot of broad beans on the roadside. The tender broad beans could be picked and eaten raw. This child would steal the broad beans and eat them while cutting the grass. Li also said: "If you catch the caterpillar, the bean will grow bigger." This broad bean looks like a caterpillar. If you pick off this broad bean, how big will it be? ! How come it still grows bigger after it is removed? This kid is a liar.
There is also a "gossip" like this: "If the dragonflies stop, you will get yellow fat disease if you don't stop." There are so many dragonflies in Xiaochenguang in the summer. Children should catch them when they see them. Just say "If the dragonfly stops, you will get yellow fat disease if you don't stop", and also:
The mother-in-law next door stirs up the fragrance of fried beans,
It is a kind heart to give it to me,
Don’t give it to me, you are a bad-hearted person,
These "gossips" Xiaochen Guang said are not to be famous, they are just words that make people laugh.
For thousands of years, nursery rhymes have reflected the interests and scenes of generations of children growing up and playing, as well as their lives, their childhood joy and longing. But it is a pity that old nursery rhymes, as a precious heritage in our folk literature, have not been valued, discovered and recorded by many people so far. Children who are now surrounded by the Internet, telling them old nursery rhymes seems like fantasy. Nowadays, when it comes to this nursery rhyme, we can only helplessly drift away and let it fend for itself.