Nursery Rhymes (Beijing nursery rhymes)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Nursery Rhymes (Beijing nursery rhymes)

Applicant: Xuanwu District, Beijing

Item No.: 565

Project No.: i-78

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: Folk Literature

Region: Beijing

Type: new item

Applicant: Xuanwu District, Beijing

Protection unit: the first primary school affiliated to Xuanwu Normal School of Beijing

Introduction to nursery rhymes (Beijing nursery rhymes)

Applicant: Xuanwu District, Beijing

Nursery rhyme refers to the ballad without music score that is sung in children's mouth. It is a kind of ballad with special significance that is read, Sung and spread by special groups all over the country. Nursery rhymes have a history of thousands of years in China. There are many records of nursery rhymes in the official revision history, miscellaneous biographies, notes and novels. Nursery rhymes mainly have written and oral transmission. Their language is simple and easy to understand, and their content is simple and natural. They are excellent representatives of folk literature and art. Nursery rhymes have accumulated excellent national culture and rich educational contents.

Beijing nursery rhymes show the urban character of Beijing and the thoughts and feelings of Beijingers in different periods. They carry thousands of years of history of our country and have strong infection and penetration. They are valuable educational resources that can be excavated and used for reference.

According to the content, Beijing nursery rhymes can be divided into three categories: the first category is composed by elders and parents to educate children; the second category is to describe adults' life, emotions, ideas and opinions; the third category is based on the idioms or historical themes in ancient rituals. There are many forms of nursery rhymes, including thimble, crosstalk, tongue twister, ballad and proverb, lullaby, riddle, chain tune, counting song, question and answer song, parallelism and so on. In the process of creation, we should rhyme in the same way, including double sentence rhyme, sentence rhyme, every two sentences rhyme and so on. Such as "Dongzhimen hanging plaque", "big head big", "a garden of vegetables into essence", "over the water", "wind mother-in-law", "Golden hoop Lu stick" and so on.

Nowadays, Beijing nursery rhymes, a literary style that reflects children's innocence and interest and has had an important impact on the growth of countless people, are gradually fading out of children's lives. The familiar nursery rhymes that have been sung for thousands of years have begun to be forgotten by today's children. It is necessary to protect, inherit and develop Beijing nursery rhymes as a national treasure, so as to better serve the growth of children.