How hard is it for a child to memorize an ancient poem?
The other day, a mother came to our backstage and complained:
Hello, teacher, our child is now in the third grade, the textbook of the ancient poems recited very slowly, her father and I every day to help her tutoring, reminding, but just can not be done to memorize fluent, the learning progress is very slow, how to do?
There are many parents out there who have questions like the one above.
They have taught me many times that I can't memorize, or that I can't memorize, but if I ask my child every two or three days, he or she will still be stumbling, or he or she won't be able to memorize at all.
On this issue, a senior language teacher at our picture book library shared her own childhood learning experience with parents in a lecture: when this teacher was 4 or 5 years old, her mother would teach her to memorize Tang poems in addition to literacy and writing, and the Tang poems were memorized in the beginning of the "Silent Night Thoughts" and "Ascending Storks and Bird Towers", etc. The teacher said, "I'm not sure if this is a good idea, but I think it's a good idea.
The teacher recalled, said, think memorizing Tang poems is also nothing more than incorporating the poet's words into one's mind, becoming part of the content of the open-mouthed.
It wasn't until the teacher was in middle school that she fell in love with singer Faye Wong, especially the song sung, "Wish for a Long Time," that the teacher said she was suddenly obsessed with going up to adapt the words of Li Yu, Li Qingzhao and Zhou Bangyan.
The so-called "young people do not know the taste of sadness, love on the floor. The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night.
From then on, the teacher's world seemed to open a new window. It turns out that poetry is not for memorizing, but for singing.
In fact, we can no longer see the life of the ancients with our own eyes, but through a painting and a poem, we can still enter the poet's heart, feel his joys and sorrows, and draw closer to the poetry, so that we can get along with it more easily.
Children learn languages as well, slowly popping out two words, to a complete sentence, to a complete paragraph, but also follow the music to twist, hear the music outside can mobilize the whole body cells.
Music is supposed to enhance a child's sense of music, develop the child's right brain, and foster a healthy and good positive mindset.
PoetryPoetry, since it is called poetry, why do we just let our children read it to memorize it?
Why can't we listen, learn, and sing?
Isn't singing poetry more appropriate for a child who is curious about the world of music, but in a passive position, than a popular, square-dancing song that we often play at home or in the car, such as "Little Apple," "The King Told Me to Come Patrol the Mountain," and "The Exercise Manual for Youth"?
Composed into a song
Inviting children's voices on the same frequency as the child's to sing out
Letting the child feel the sound and color
Combining musical enlightenment with the grinding of ears with ancient poems
Giving the child a childhood
It's not "polluted" by pop songs or popular songs. "
So, today, this language teacher of our New Oriental will recommend to parents the following most suitable for the home, the car, the journey with the child to listen to and sing out of the ancient poetry music picture books and books.
Giving children a pair of clean, pure, but with a classical flavor of the "tricky" ear.
01. New School Song
The first picture book we recommend is a perfect combination of picture books and music, "New School Song" written by Gu Jianfen, a famous Chinese composer and lifetime achievement music artist of China's Music Golden Bell Award.
You may not have heard of Ms. Gu Jianfen's name, but you must have sung the songs she composed, "Songs and Smiles", "Mama's Kiss", "Green Leaf's Love for Roots", "Thinking of Missing You", "Mama in the Candlelight", and "It's Your Birthday Today".
These songs she arranged contain the themes of love and gratitude for life, peace and stability. Now, seeing that there are fewer and fewer melodious children's songs in her senior age, Ms. Gu Jianfen is even more painstakingly composing children's songs for our next generation.
Teacher Gu recalled:
Once upon a time, when children were asked to sing songs like "The Little Girl Who Picks Mushrooms", the children were passive and formatted by education, but when it came to these ancient poems like "The Song of the Wanderer", the children sang them in a very relaxed and emotional manner.
Each of these ancient poems is full of an emotion, and Mr. Gu uses the pipa, guzheng, drums, sanxian and other ethnic instruments and modern orchestral music on the basis of popular instruments such as the guitar, combining the ancient and modern factors, and the children hear these beautiful melodies, and the children will be faster to get close to, and go to learn to sing and with the words of it.
And the words are also traditional ancient poems that Chinese children have been asked to memorize since childhood.
A variety of traditional and popular instruments compose a tune
with condensed words and rhyming endings
a neat, emotional counterpoint to the ancient poems
A complete song, best suited to children
for musical and poetic initiation is born
But that's still not enough. Mr. Tani once traveled to Japan and discovered that Japanese children read picture books, which have pictures, words, and can be told and recited.
So Mr. Gu was so inspired that when he returned to Japan, he specially invited 18 top children's illustrators at home and abroad, such as Zheng Mingjin, Liang Peilong, and Cao Junyan, to create matching pictures for these two volumes of one ****28 poems.
Let your child listen, watch, and sing, and without realizing it, the notes and poems will fall all over their eyes, ears, and minds.
The two volumes of "New School Songs", the most representative classic children's music picture books in China, the whole production process a **** took 2 years.
It's not as simple as you might think, attaching two CDs of music to two books of ancient poetry and you're done.
How to arrange the music to fit children's musicality, how to match the colors, composition and mood of the pictures, and whether the melodies and lyrics fit the characteristics of the music, all of these need to be discussed repeatedly between Mr. Gu and the creators.
It was only after repeated and meticulous polishing that this set of "New School Songs" came into being, with children listening to it, watching it, and singing along with it with feeling.
02. Spring Dawn, A Child's Journey Through Tang Poetry
The next recommendation for you is also about learning ancient poems through singing, but here the tune has changed, and the set is called Spring Dawn, A Child's Journey Through Tang Poetry.
The Tang poems that have been passed down through the ages meet the folk tunes that have become household names
Colliding with different sparks
Another choice for children to learn ancient poems
The poems are selected from the Tang poems, such as Meng Haoran's Spring Dawn and Li Bai's Silent Night Thoughts, etc.; and the folk ballads are also selected from the household songs, such as the Jiangsu folk song "Jasmine Flower" and the Shaanxi folk song "Orchid Blossom". The folk song "Jasmine" in Jiangsu Province, "Orchid Flower" in Shaanxi Province, and so on.
The combination of the two is not only beautiful in words, skillful in music, and long in flavor, but also good to listen to and learn, so you can learn it right away.
Children learn to hum the tunes of folk songs and memorize the most classic chapters of Tang poetry.
The 17 poems included in this book were originally sung by Mr. Liu Chongde, a master of lyrics and music, to his own little granddaughter. Mr. Liu was inspired to sing the Tang poems to music, using the method of "singing Tang poems in folk tunes.
Mr. Liu has presided over a number of national projects, and once successfully translated the "Newly Decided Nine Palace Dacheng North-South Lyrics Palace Spectrum", which is known as the "Mountain of Lyrics and Sea of Songs", and translated 5,000 pieces of musical scores into simplified scores and five-line scores, which is a great feat.
In order to let more children, like his own granddaughter, immerse their ears in beautiful folk songs and poems, he traveled to different parts of the world, taking into account the harmony and appropriateness between the style of each Tang poem and the folk songs and tunes.
So he sang Li Bai's "Silent Night Thoughts" in the Jiangsu folk song "Jasmine Flower" and Du Mu's poem "Qingming" in the Hebei ditty "Little Cabbage".
There are also children's songs from Tianjin and folk songs from the northwest, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as well as Hebei and Inner Mongolia, and opera voices such as Xipi and Qinqiang.
While our children are still learning the traditional, rather monotonous and rigid chanting, if they are accompanied by these extremely beautiful songs with ancient rhythms, it is as if they have discovered the cave of the water and the moon, which has a different flavor. His interest in learning ancient poetry will surely grow stronger.
Our forefathers left behind many valuable human treasures, especially poetry and folk tunes, but in the midst of cultural disruption and an endless stream of novelty toys and electronics, children have fewer chances to access these human treasures.
03.Children's Songs of the Four Seasons
The third set of books recommended by our teachers for children is the Bingxin Children's Book Award-winning Children's Songs of the Four Seasons, a perfect blend of poems and paintings on the theme of the four seasons.
Spring is the time to swim in the meadow
Summer is the time to enjoy the green lotus pond
Autumn is the time to drink the yellow wine
Winter is the time to sing the poem of white snow
The four seasons of the year are a cycle in which everything grows and everything dies.
Originally released in the 1990s, "Children's Songs of the Four Seasons" is China's first set of classic Chinese picture books with a seasonal theme created specifically for children.
It puts the seasons first and becomes the clue and logic for the selection of poems, one for each season of the year, with about forty ancient poems in one book.
Don't get the headache of reading poetry to your child and where to start. Follow the sun, follow the calendar, follow the changing seasons. Experience the beauty of nature's transformations in poetry. The seasons magically change, making it easier for our children to discover the little surprises in nature, to be more subtle and sensitive in their minds, and to be good at finding the hidden poems in life.
During the rainy season, children are no longer worried about having nowhere to play, sitting on the bamboo chairs in front of the door, or holding their chins on the window sill, muttering, "It rains in every house during the yellow plum season, and there are frogs everywhere in the grassy ponds." The little eyes will also look into the distant pond from time to time, and prick up their ears to listen to the frogs, the frog's call is really that loud?
In the hot summer, the child hides in the neighborhood or under the tree in front of the village and the old people in the cool. The sound of children playing, the sound of the elderly parents, and occasionally the crowd emerges from the two lines of "green shade summer long, the reflection of the building into the pond," the childish children's voices.
Who says there is no beauty in life? Who says poetry is hard to understand? When a child has a clear and precise sense of the outside world, does he or she still need our orthodox explanations for the poems that come out of his or her mouth?
Poetry is in the child's life, and poetry is in the child's seasons.
North Island said:
"Snowflakes and petals, early spring and breezes, fine sand and storms, each child's feelings are unique."
This set of Children's Songs for the Four Seasons brings together leading scholars from home and abroad to carefully select 150 ancient poems in the order of the four seasons. And a beautiful, elegant, fresh and pleasant accompanying illustration has been created using Chinese-style presentation.
04. Ancient Poetry for Children
At the end of the book, we would like to recommend again the "Ancient Poetry for Children" of the "Ancient Poetry for Children Series" edited by Mr. Ye Jiaying.
Mr. Ye Jiaying, a master of classical poetry, has personally screened, selected, and annotated the most suitable Chinese poems for children to read and the most in line with the scope of children's cognition.
The "Ancient Poems for Children" edited by Mr. Ye contains 177 and 41 words. Chinese ancient poems are as vast as the ocean and the layers of mountains, and the criterion that can be included in it is that it is suitable for the child's reading interest and ability.
"Poetry 300, in a nutshell, says: Si Wu Yi."
Letting children learn ancient poems happily at the most innocent age and letting them have a childhood imbued with poetry has extremely far-reaching significance in a child's life.
Poetry is most loved in terms of meter, structure, and creating sparks with language. Poems are rich in rhetoric and can delight and move. Poetry gives voice to the rhythms, images, and thoughts in our hearts and minds, and through poetry we give them a written voice.
Adults who read a poem a day are like drinking a cup of literary tea, and have more reverie in the midst of their busy lives.
The child who reads a poem a day is like drinking a cup of pure milk, in addition to the heavy school work, more retrospective.
In fact, a child's upbringing and conversation, the way he or she speaks, what he or she expresses, and the spirituality he or she displays all depend on whether or not the child's inner world is rich and whether or not he or she can precipitate his or her own perceptions.
In a child's childhood, which is not short but not long either
Giving a child a flower seed of poetry
Companying and irrigating the child with care, and using good poems as nourishment
There is a possibility of harvesting a lifetime of fragrance and blossom
The future path of life is full of labor
But you and I are still poetic inhabiting this earth