The ducks and geese stretched out to Luzhou for breakfast. One share for the father and one share for the mother-in-law. The daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law hid themselves, and the mice ran out and shouted loudly.
Which Luzhou kid didn't yell at his grandparents with this kind of tone when he was a child?
At that time, I thought it was smooth to say, but now I think about it carefully, what is really smooth? In fact, it is the older generation who broke up the life and fed it to us bit by bit.
Why don’t my kids sing anymore?
Yesterday I asked the five-year-old kid next door if he could sing nursery rhymes.
He recited an English nursery rhyme to me, Thief.
What kind of Luzhou dialect do I speak? He raised his eyes and looked at me, "What?"
I suddenly panicked.
In fact, the current parents cannot be blamed. The people born in the 1980s and 1990s themselves can’t figure it out. They are busy running around for a living all day long. How can they have the energy and thought to teach their children, “Grandma Wang, is making tea, and three Guanyins are coming to drink tea.” Furthermore, even if you really want to teach, how many sentences can you remember to recite?
Which one is not more advanced than those "rustic"-sounding things, those early education classes, or English classes, or Lego programming?
Earthy? So earthy. But behind the soil are roots
I was flipping through books that day and saw a sentence written by Yang Shen of the Ming Dynasty. My heart trembled suddenly. The sentence said: "The songs sung by children are called nursery rhymes because they come from their inner thoughts and are not taught by others."
Not taught by anyone.
These four words are so good.
Today's children are taught everything by others. They are taught just like adults, but they only lack the innocence and innocence that is not taught deliberately by others. What a situation is this.
How did Luzhou people teach their children to recognize their facial features in the past?
"The eyebrows are in the right place, the eyes are in the water, and the teeth are in retreat" [user].
Do you think it's just for fun? Not so. Dotting the eyebrows is to hope that the child will have beautiful features, dotting the eyes is to pray that he will shed less tears and be more happy. Changing teeth is called "retreating", which is to wish him to grow up smoothly. This is to hide the most beautiful thoughts at the top of your fingers.
How tall is the Bell and Drum Tower?
I remember when I was a kid, I heard adults set up the Dragon Gate Formation.
People in Yunnan brag: Our Jizhao Mountain is three feet three feet from the sky.
Luzhou people are not timid in the face of various situations: the ones you mentioned are not worth mentioning at all, and half of our Bell and Drum Towers stand straight in the sky.
Hey, right now, when young people come to Luzhou and see the Bell and Drum Towers, they will probably scold us for bragging and not even making a draft.
That kind of pride, what kind of pride, that kind of energy to love one's hometown to the core, such energy, isn't this energy passed down through these "bragging" nursery rhymes, isn't it?
Those uncles who were the worst offended
My uncle came to have dinner when he was a child, and a group of us kids would gather around him and sing:
Uncle and uncle, my farts are very smelly. Whenever the bowl sounds, my buttocks twist (read six), [user].
After singing, she ran away, so angry that he chased after her.
When I think about it now, I realize how wonderful such a nursery rhyme is. It does not preach profound truths, it is just pure joy, the informal, intimate and playful emotion between children and adults.
It's not like now, when the baby meets his uncle, each holding a mobile phone and not even saying a few words.
The inheritance that started with the Book of Songs
In fact, our ancestors have long understood nursery rhymes.
During the Zhou Dynasty, Yin Jifu collected folk songs and compiled them into the Book of Songs. Many of them were "nursery songs" from that time.
However, ancient people were sometimes extremely bad, using children's mouths to fabricate public opinions and make political predictions, which is really disgusting.
But most of the time, it's just the cleanest thing.
In the third year of the Republic of China, Zhou Zuoren launched a collection of nursery rhymes in Shaoxing, claiming that the purpose was to preserve the unique charm of Yue's customs. So what is our local customs in Luzhou like? "Sujichuan Insect Song" has become an intangible cultural heritage of Sichuan, but how many of our own families can remember it?
Things about the New Year
"Carrots are so sweet. I see them celebrating the New Year" [user].
When I was a child, I looked forward to the Chinese New Year with great anticipation, and what I kept thinking about was this sentence. I didn’t know exactly whether the radish was sweet or not, but I knew clearly that I would wear brand new clothes, taste delicious croaking, and play with dragon lanterns to my heart’s content.
The flavor of the New Year has faded now. Is it because there are no fireworks?
I don't think so. It's because no one sings these anymore.
The sense of ritual is gone, and the New Year is just a holiday.
Go to school with a colorful face
There’s also something fun to do:
That's the school with the painted face. Then he picked up his schoolbag and headed to the school. The schoolbag was placed on the table, and he couldn't help but cry while looking at the teacher. The teacher asked me why I was crying. I claimed that I wanted to eat peanut candies.
You see, how real it was for children in the past. If they didn’t want to go to school, they just didn’t want to go. If they wanted to eat candy, they just wanted to eat candy.
Today's children are so sensible, so sensible that it makes people feel bad.
Did the geese really fly away?
Some scholars say that nursery rhymes are "the lullaby of the nation".
I don't think it's right.
Lullabies are sung by adults to babies, top to bottom.
Nursery rhymes are not. Nursery rhymes are sung by children to themselves and are the first self-dialogue in life.
Looking at the news recently, the Hangzhou area is doing its best to save local nursery rhymes, and there are also teachers in kindergartens in the Luzhou area compiling new nursery rhymes. Yet it always felt like something was missing. Lack of the kind of natural and spontaneous energy that does not rely on the guidance of others.
Yellow silk ant, come and eat
I always remember that scene:
On a summer afternoon, there is a nest of yellow-threaded ants on the ground.
My cousin and I squatted there and sang over and over again:
"Huangsi ant, come and eat. If the big officials don't come, the small ones will come. Let's play and play."
The ants really came to line up.
We have really grown up too.
Those nursery rhymes are still there, but no one sings them anymore.
Just like the legend that the Bell and Drum Towers are still there, but half of them are in the sky, no one believes them anymore.
How many songs do you remember?
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