Most of the ancient Chinese nursery rhymes have political and metallurgical colors, and even mysteriously predict the development of the political and metallurgical situation later. Modern nursery rhymes are passed down because they are easy to remember and sing, but don't think that nursery rhymes are for children, and many nursery rhymes hide shocking stories behind them.
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First, the ancient nursery rhyme is mysteriously fulfilled
1. The Zhou Kingdom was actually destroyed
"Chronicle. The Zhou Benji records that there is a famous nursery rhyme in the late Western Zhou Dynasty: the moon will rise, the sun will dip, the arc will be subdued, and the kingdom of Zhou will actually die. This means that the moon will rise, the sun will sink into the water, and those who sell bows and arrows made of mulberry wood will destroy the kingdom of Zhou. The imperial court, which heard this ballad, ordered the arrest and killing of a couple who were selling arc clothes in the city. On their way to escape, they adopted an abandoned baby who cried heartbreakingly. This abandoned baby was Zhaojiu, who grew up and was included in the royal palace and pampered by the ghost king. The ghost king smiled for Bo and staged the farce of "beacon drama princes", and finally destroyed the country because of coveting beauty and desolation. It turns out that the "moon" in this nursery rhyme refers to Zhao Yao, while the sun refers to King Zhou You.
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2. Ten days of divination, no birth
In the story of the ninth episode of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Dong Zhuo heard a child composing a song at night, singing: Qianlicao, He Qingqing! Ten days, no birth! The song is sad. He asked the martial general Li Su what this nursery rhyme meant, and although Li Su probably understood the meaning of the nursery rhyme, he lied to Dong Zhuo and said, "It just means that Liu Han will decline, and your Dong clan will rise." On the 2nd day, Dong Zhuo was killed when he was in the dynasty. In fact, this "thousand miles of grass" is actually "Dong", "Ten Days Bu" is "Zhuo", not allowed to live, predicting the tyrannical Dong Zhuo's death, this nursery rhyme is not a fabrication of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is recorded in the "Book of the Later Han Five Elements" and "Heroes", adding a bit of a sense of destiny to the death of Dong Zhuo in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
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3. Yan Feilai, pecking the emperor and grandson
The eighty-eighth volume of the "Le Fu Poems" contains this nursery rhyme from the late Western Han Dynasty: Yan Yanwei salivation, Zhang Gongzi, meet at times. Mumen Canglanggen, Yan Feilai, pecking the imperial grandson, the imperial grandson died, Yan pecked the arrow. There is a personal name in the nursery rhyme, that is, Zhao Feiyan during the Hancheng Emperor, she is beautiful, and the so-called "Huan Feiyan Thin" refers to her and Yang Yuhuan. She got the name "Feiyan" because her dance style was as light as Yan Feifeng Dance, and Emperor Cheng, who assumed the pseudonym Zhang Gongzi, often came to watch her performance. Later, she was included in the harem and made empress, but because of her cruelty, she mutilated and killed many princes, and "Yan Fei came and pecked Wang Sun" was fulfilled. Interestingly, the last two sentences of "the emperor and grandson die, Yan pecked the arrow" is a curse for her: "Ya" is the same as the arrow of "Lost Arrow", which means, the infant in the swaddling was brutally "pecked" to death, can her evil Yan last? The shitch will eventually fall, come a "swallow eats".
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4. Harmonic dissonance, in red eyebrows. Not, in Hebei
Open the "Book of the Later Han and the Five Elements", in the late Western Han Dynasty, there was such a nursery rhyme: Harmony is not harmonious, in Chimei. Not, in Hebei. This is a prophecy about the uprising of the Chimei army, which means that the key to the harmony and smoothness of the world lies in the Chimei army, and the one who wins Hebei wins the world. In a word, the later Han Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu rose up in Hebei and later established the Eastern Han Dynasty.
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Second, the secret of modern nursery rhymes
1. "Maran Blossom Twenty-One"
As one of the classic games of the past, everyone has almost heard such a nursery rhyme: "Little leather ball, rack kick (banana pear), horse lan bloom twenty-one." Two eight two fifty-six, two eight two five seven, two eight two nine thirty-one. This catchy nursery rhyme hides a shocking secret, which is related to the mainland's atomic bomb research and development test. When the nuclear test project was secretly developed, the base code name was Maran. This is because in May 1959, when the Lop Nor nuclear test site was finally determined, work on the base began at a time when the maglan flowers were in full bloom. And because the horse orchid is not delicate, it is very easy to feed, and it can grow strong and bloom proudly even in an environment with water scarcity.
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The Maran base was once the 21st test and training base of the General Armament Department, and "blossom" refers to the atomic bomb explosion. The correct code of this nursery rhyme is: On October 16, 1964, the Malan General Assembly 21 Experimental Base, the first atomic bomb on the mainland was successfully blown up! This nursery rhyme sings about the great deeds that shake the heavens and the earth, and it is a great feat of hardship.
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2. "Little White Boat"
The suspense drama "Hidden Corner" brought the nursery rhyme "Little White Boat" to fire. But few people know that it is itself a requiem, a song related to death, originally a song by North Korean composer Yoon Ke-young to mourn his deceased sister. After translation, it was transmitted to the mainland, and somehow it became a nursery rhyme full of hope. "In the blue sky galaxy, there is a small white boat with a osmanthus tree on board, and the white rabbit is playing. The oars and oars are invisible, there are no sails on the boat, and they are fluttering to the west..." The nursery rhyme is no longer childlike, a little thoughtful.
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3. "A-jie Drum"
"A Jie Drum" is a song composed by He Xuntian in 95 and sung by Zhu Zheqin, which tells the tragic story behind A Jie Drum. Literally, my sister is missing her deaf and mute sister who left home since she was a child, and then there is a burst of drums in the sky to place lovesickness. But in the story, the Ajie drum is a drum made of a girl's skin. The skin on the drum is taken from a girl under the age of 16 who died without illness, and the method of taking the skin is very cruel.
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4. "Head Soup"
In Cantonese, "head soup" is the first bite of soup. This Cantonese song is not particularly popular, and at first glance I thought it depicted a family eating and enjoying the scene. After paying attention to the lyrics, I found that thinking about it is terrifying.
Ding-dong, no one pretends: it's time to open a meal, but no one wants to do it.
Eyes are clear, heart is uneasy: People are not ordinary food in front of them, so it is difficult to enjoy it with peace of mind.
Purr, head soup: Everyone was so hungry that they drummed, and still no one drank the first sip of soup.
If you don't drink it, I'll pretend first: finally someone can't stop coming forward to serve the soup.
Woohoo, drink essence: It can be understood as the sound of drinking soup, or it can be understood as crying and drinking the soup
Stone out, scissors hide: Guessing boxing game, stone wins, scissors loses
Laugh and hee, don't panic: the winner can't hold back the joy and laughs, and reassures the loser not to be afraid
The next meal, you make the soup: the one who loses, the next meal needs to "make" the soup. The meaning of this "do" does not need to be explained more, right?
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It is said that this ballad is about the horror of cannibalism during a famine. We also have a lot of potential "weird nursery rhymes", just to give an example.
5. "Two Tigers"
One of the enlightenment songs for children in the continent, but when a child curiously asks why one has no eyes and the other has no tail, how do you answer? I have to say that its lyrics are ridiculous, and it can only end with "really strange" in the lyrics.
It is said that there is a dark fairy tale behind this ballad. A long, long time ago, there were brothers and sisters in the Tiger Kingdom, each with their own special abilities. The older brother has a pair of clairvoyances and can see tiny things far away; The younger sister has a pair of tailwind ears and can hear its small voices. They fell in love for a long time, but their unromantic love was spurned by the outside world. They thought that since they did not receive the blessing of all, what was the use of having this ability, so the elder brother blinded his eyes, and the younger sister deafened his ears. A long time later, a musician heard this poignant and moving love story, and with mixed feelings, he composed a touching song. That is: two tigers, two tigers, running fast, running fast, one without eyes, one without ears, how strange, how strange!
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Summary: What kind of connotation nursery rhymes have depends on how the listener interprets them. More often than not, it is the horror of the human heart. As a nursery rhyme, it is better to sing it to children, or to treat it as simple and innocent content.
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