To know where you were born,
Need to understand nursery rhymes;
To understand the cultural connotations of another place,
Nursery rhymes can also be used as a starting point,
"Longchuan Hakka Nursery Rhymes"
For the promotion of Chinese excellent traditional culture,
Subtly realize the nursery rhyme
The social education function has positive significance.
Recently, "Longchuan Hakka Nursery Rhymes" was published by South China University of Technology Press.
This book includes 50 local Hakka nursery rhymes in Longchuan County, Guangdong Province, Hakka nursery rhymes are hakka folk songs created for Hakka children, is a bridge of communication with children, it is childlike, lively, catchy, very rhythmic and musical beauty. Each nursery rhyme in the book has a Hakka nursery rhyme recitation and dubbing, and there is a short text introduction, telling the profound cultural connotations of each Hakka nursery rhyme, as well as the Hakka wisdom contained in it. In addition, each nursery rhyme is accompanied by original Chinese painting illustrations, showing the local customs of Hakka mountain villages.
Although children in the Hakka mountains usually have to help their families do farm work, their childhood life is full of fun - palming cattle swimming in the river, cutting grass in the fields, touching fish in the water, picking fruits from trees; fishing old crabs, poking honeycombs, catching crickets, tarting brothers, corner of the pit, everywhere. After having fun, the children will unconsciously think of the nursery rhymes taught by the elders, "Toad Woman, Giggling, Reading, Wife; Mountain Partridge, Grunting, Reading, Big Sweet Potato", and hurry up to study hard.
Longchuan Hakka nursery rhymes also vividly reflect the life wisdom, outlook on life, values, aesthetic tastes and educational ideas of "chongwen re-education" of the Hakka people in Longchuan area. Passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation of Hakka, Hakka nursery rhymes have deeply influenced and educated countless Hakka children. Therefore, excavating and inheriting Hakka nursery rhymes, inheriting the excellent qualities of Hakka people who work hard to start a business, be open-minded and optimistic, love their families and love their hometowns and love their country, will help to further enrich the spiritual world of contemporary Hakka.
The history of the Han Chinese in the Central Plains has been breeding and living in Longchuan for more than 2,200 years, and Longchuan County is one of the earliest ancient counties in the Lingnan region where the Central Plains people moved south.
In the pre-Qin period, Longchuan belonged to the land of Baiyue, and "the customs of the Yue people attacked each other", and they were independent. After Zhao Tuo arrived in office, he promoted the strategy of "Heji Baiyue", advocated "Hanyue miscellaneous places", spread the Culture of the Central Plains, promoted the assimilation of Hanyue, and greatly promoted the progress of local civilization and economic development. This also laid the foundation for the later Hakka ancestors to move in and settle in large numbers.
Later, after five great migrations, the Hakka people moved south to Settle in Guangdong, Fujian and Gansu. There are two distinct Hakka accents in Longchuan County, one is a water source sound and the other is a Jiaying tone. The water source sound is formed earlier, and the sound is close to the dialect accent of Heyuan City and Dongyuan; the Jiaying sound is formed later, and the sound is close to the accent of Xingning, Wuhua and other places in Meizhou.
In order to survive and develop, in the struggle with nature and the cultural exchanges between the Hakka people and the mixed Hakka land, the Hakka people have continuously combined and integrated the Central Plains culture and the indigenous culture and ethnic minority culture to create a unique ethnic culture - Hakka culture, and Hakka nursery rhymes are one of the important forms of expression.
Hakka nursery rhymes are simple and fresh, full of childlike fun, with unique language charm and strong local atmosphere, and have profound cultural connotations, which are entertaining and educational.
Longchuan County has a large number of Hakka nursery rhymes and rich content, which can be roughly divided into six categories: teaching, games, amusement, narrative, lyricism, and tongue twister, of which narrative, tongue twister, and teaching are the majority.
Hakka nursery rhymes mainly have the following characteristics:
1, many short sentences, simple grammatical structure, easy for children to remember.
2. There are many overlapping words and a strong sense of rhythm. Hakka nursery rhymes are lively and singing with great rhythm and musical beauty.
3. The battle is neat and the sentence pattern is repeated.
4. Make good use of rhetorical techniques such as xingxing and anthropomorphism, and often use "moonlight", "fireflies (fireflies)", "Hebizi (little sparrow)", "rainy days" and so on. This kind of excitement technique can greatly stimulate children's imagination, cultivate their associative thinking to recognize the things around them, and also make the writing appear light and lively.
5. The dialect vocabulary is rich, informative and interesting. Although the Hakka nursery rhymes are short and shallow, they are funny and humorous, and concise and concise.
6. Edutainment. Hakka nursery rhymes often use things to quote and allude to things, and children can get education and inspiration from them.
Excerpts:
In the Hakka area, there are widely circulated Hakka nursery rhyme sentences such as "Chicken GongLong Valley Dog Stepping", which are not only imaginative and full of fairy tales, but also have Hakka real life scenes such as Tongu, Ta Tong, Fire Burning, and Stir-fry, and the language is very vivid and interesting.
This nursery rhyme vividly depicts two young people who are busy due to lack of experience when they cook. Nursery rhymes use anthropomorphic techniques, and animals participate in them, such as "chicken male washing rice dog stepping", "rabbit setting table pig wine", "fox burning fire cat stir-fry", so that children can imagine.
Sister Hua Jiao, transfer sister's family
Sugar poppy seeds, poppy flowers;
Sister Hua Jiao, transfer sister's family.
The first month goes, February turns,
Turn to the flower jar and take a little water.
Goose lotus water, duck washing,
Toad burning fire cat cooking,
Chicken Valley Dog Stepping,
The fox pulls chai on the wall,
Pig consort turned over the ground to lettuce.
exegesis:
Sugar Poppy Seeds: Also known as Sugar Poppies, the scientific name is "Golden Cherry".
Sister Hua Jiao: A spoiled woman.
Transfer sister's house: go back to her mother's house.
KEY: Lean on.
Cabbage: Hollow cabbage.
Book title: Longchuan Hakka Nursery Rhymes
Author: Liu Liheng, Editor
Publisher: South China University of Technology Press
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Wu Bo
Photo/ Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuacheng reporter: Wu Bo
Video/Guangzhou Daily Xinhuacheng Reporter: Wu Bo
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Liu Liqin