Introduction of nursery rhymes in southern Fujian

Minnan nursery rhymes are children's ballads written and sung in Minnan language, which are popular in Minnan area of Taiwan Province Province and overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. It is a form of folk literature formed by Minnan people in the past dynasties, according to children's understanding ability and psychological characteristics, using the complex and musically beautiful rhyme and flat rhythm of Minnan dialect, and constantly modifying and supplementing it in the singing process.

Minnan nursery rhymes are children's songs written and sung in Minnan, which are mainly popular in China, Fujian, Minnan, Taiwan Province, China, China and overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. Moonlight is a folk nursery rhyme in Fujian in the Tang Dynasty, which is very similar in theme and structure to the nursery rhyme of the same name circulating in southern Fujian today, although it is different in words. It can be seen that Minnan nursery rhymes appeared in the Tang Dynasty. After the middle and late Ming Dynasty, as Minnan people crossed Taiwan Province Province and went south to Southeast Asia, Minnan nursery rhymes spread to China, Taiwan Province Province and Southeast Asian countries.

And take root in these areas, promote each other with local culture, and create many new nursery rhymes. From the content, Minnan nursery rhymes can be roughly divided into current politics (such as shooting at the sun), parenting (such as rocking), games (such as clapping hands), animals (such as bees), plants (such as songs), knowledge (such as 123) and folk customs (such as wai).

artistic charm

From the form of performance, Minnan nursery rhymes can be divided into singing (oral reading or chanting), singing (singing nursery rhymes with music), playing nursery rhymes (singing nursery rhymes while playing games) and dancing (singing nursery rhymes while dancing). Minnan nursery rhymes have inherited the traditional artistic technique of "going to Fu Bi" in China, and used various rhetorical devices to express things by using the beauty of music and rhythm brought by the richness of pronunciation and the diversity of rhymes in Minnan dialect, so as to improve the artistic effect of the content and enhance the artistic appeal and charm.

For example, The Woodlouse Marries Weng adopts personification rhetoric, and A Grass Exposes a Little adopts metonymy rhetoric. The Three Fires in Biography of Seven Sons use exaggerated rhetoric, while Shoulan Song uses parallelism rhetoric. "Flower Arrangement by People" adopts the rhetorical device of contrast, and "Crying for God" adopts the rhetorical device of repetition and so on.