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Nursery rhymes are short poems with folk songs, which are mainly accepted by children. It is one of the oldest and most basic genres of children's literature. Children's songs are a kind of folk songs, which are found all over the country. The content mostly reflects children's interest in life and spreads knowledge about life and production.
The lyrics mostly use the method of comparison, and the rhyme is smooth and easy to catchy. The tune is close to the tone of language and has a brisk rhythm. There are solos and duets, such as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, which is recognized as the world's first children's song. Children's songs include folk nursery rhymes and poems written by writers. In recent years, Ye Peng New Children's Songs has a sense of the times. Another Fish Leong song was named Children's Song.
Children's songs can be classified in different ways according to different standards. Children's songs can be roughly divided into two categories according to their functions: playing children's songs and teaching children's songs. Game nursery rhymes are a kind of nursery rhymes mainly for entertainment, which are easy to understand, catchy and close to life. Comparatively speaking, children's songs are more focused on education and guidance, so they are also called inspirational children's songs.
In addition, tongue twisters to train language ability can also be regarded as the embryonic form of children's songs in the game. Tongue twisters can be traced back to the era of the Yellow Emperor more than 5000 years ago. Fortunately, "Playing Songs" preserved in ancient books is said to have been written by the Yellow Emperor. According to textual research, this is a ballad close to the original form.
According to the time or form, it can be divided into ancient nursery rhymes and modern nursery rhymes. Nursery rhymes are ancient children's songs, but ancient nursery rhymes have been handed down, and most of them have no tunes, only lyrics.
According to the singing language, nursery rhymes can be divided into Mandarin nursery rhymes, Hakka nursery rhymes, Cantonese nursery rhymes and English nursery rhymes. Mandarin nursery rhymes are mostly modern works, such as Little Girl Picking Mushrooms and Little Snail.
Hakka nursery rhymes are widely spread in Hakka areas. Singing in Hakka dialects, such as moonlight, affects every Hakka child's childhood. English nursery rhymes are nursery rhymes written in English, which we are all familiar with, such as Jingle Bells and so on.