"June 1" Children's Day is coming again, and elementary school and kindergartens around the world are busy preparing various programs to celebrate the children's holiday. At this time, we can always hear some teachers and parents around similar complaints: "Now the program is more and more difficult to arrange, every year, in addition to the "Let's Swing Double Oars", "Little Swallow" and other classic songs, I really don't know what song to choose for the children?" "Children follow their grandmothers to the square dance every day, and the most familiar songs are actually Love for Sale and Wife's Biggest!" ...... The complaints and concerns of teachers and parents are not empty, it is precisely from the side of the children's art education reflects a major deficiency, that is, "children lack of children's songs".
Either the old children's songs, or adult pop songs, or is not high style "gray children's songs", and those who are really rich in the atmosphere of the times, in-depth children's hearts and can be widely sung children's songs are few and far between, children's songwriting disconnect and "lost language The "Lost in Translation" has become a serious problem.
Today's society, the development of science and technology by leaps and bounds, the dissemination of information is pervasive, and the humanities environment is more complex than ever. Children are in a special stage of growth and development, the mind is not yet determined and curiosity, strong ability to imitate but weak discernment, attention is easy to move with the changes in the environment, especially today's children, "precocious" socialization tendency has intensified the children's songs of the waning. In the minds of many teachers and parents, language, mathematics and other subjects related to college entrance exams are "main subjects", while music, art and other artistic qualities are considered "secondary subjects", thus making the music curriculum in many schools virtually non-existent. Even if class time is guaranteed, many schools are embarrassed by outdated teaching materials and too few new songs.
"Children lack children's songs", the creative team is not enough, the distribution unit is not interested, is also one of the reasons. With the old generation of excellent children's song creators and many of the transformation of the music production organization, willing to engage in children's song creation and dissemination of authors and distribution units are losing. Driven by economic interests, many are more willing to devote their energies to the creation of popular songs with wide audiences, fast dissemination and high incomes, and often lack enthusiasm for the creation and promotion of children's songs.
Children are the future of the motherland, the hope of the nation, the inheritors and builders of the excellent culture of the Chinese nation, and the reserve force for realizing the Chinese dream. Children's songs, as an education that begins in the cradle, not only have the function of delighting the body and mind and enlightening the mind, but also have an important influence on the children's cultural formation and personality cultivation by osmosis. In this sense, the creation of excellent children's songs is essentially for the inheritance of Chinese culture and the realization of the great renaissance of the Chinese nation to lay the foundation.
Therefore, the relevant departments should take active action, focus on the future, care about the production of children's spiritual food, formulate supportive policies for children's original songs, increase the promotion of these songs, and elaborate excellent children's music teaching materials, so as to consolidate the foundation of artistic literacy education. In addition, we also urgently need a group of children's songwriters and production units that can put themselves down, dedicate themselves to research, think what children think, and commit themselves to serving children, so as to practically change the dilemma of "no song to sing" for children from the source. Looking forward to the near future, in the singing of the classics at the same time, but also continue to emerge more truly belong to the children's "good voice", so that the children's spiritual food more and more abundant.
Source: Guangming Net - Guangming Daily