Does anyone know about nursery rhymes (in all countries) and their origins, please?

The Mother Goose is a famous collection of English nursery rhymes, which has been published in many versions since the late 17th century, and is now used both as one of the best English language books for parents to read to their young children, and as an important object of study for cultural researchers.

While often cited as an example of Englishness, the Mother Goose collection of rhymes was not originally English; in 1697, the French writer Perrault published a booklet of eight folktales, which he titled Contes de ma mère l'Oye (Tales of Mother Goose). The stories were translated into English in 1729. After this, an Englishman, John Newbery, found it profitable to publish similar pamphlets aimed at the children's market, so he and his companions decided to collaborate in organizing and publishing a compilation of nursery rhymes in folklore. Thus, in 1791, Mother Goose's Melody was published in England, containing 52 short poems, each illustrated with a moral and woodblock print. This edition is now a very rare treasure. Various new editions have appeared since then, and the collection has grown in the number of nursery rhymes that have been produced over a period spanning hundreds of years, some dating back to the fourteenth century.

Over the years, the catchy rhymes in Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes collection have become a part of the deeper spiritual culture of many Britons, as traditional bedtime reading for young children, and their impact is hard to overestimate. As Miss Marple says in The Curious Case of the Rye: "If one grows up listening to Mother Goose's nursery rhymes - that can mean a lot, can't it?"

Because of their English flavor, many later writers drew on them, such as Agatha Christie, known as the "Queen of Detective Fiction," the Victorian writer Lewis Carroll, and the Japanese manga artist Yuki Kaori.

Songs from Mother Goose's nursery rhymes often appear in Agatha Christie's detective novels, and sometimes they are even used directly in the titles of her books, such as Sing a song of sixpence, a song that is central to the title of A pocket full of rye.

Lewis Carroll's children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which is the first of her books to be published in the United States, was a popular favorite. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Alice's Adventures in the Mirror" are also closely related to Mother Goose's nursery rhymes, especially "Alice's Adventures in the Mirror", in which many of the characters, such as the twins TWEEDLE-DUM and TWEEDLE-DEE, Humptydumpty, and Lion and the Unicorn, all come from nursery rhymes. ), all from stories in nursery rhymes.

More young Chinese readers will probably know Mother Goose's nursery rhymes from Yuki Kaori. Known for her gorgeously dark work, Yuki's 13-volume manga "Cain, the Poisoned Earl" quotes many of the songs from Mother Goose's nursery rhymes to give it a Victorian flavor.

However, one thing is often misunderstood: not all of the gloomy nursery rhymes quoted in Cain the Poisoned Earl are from Mother Goose's nursery rhymes, but many of them are from the Brothers Grimm's collection of German ballads, and many of those from Mother Goose's nursery rhymes are used in contexts that are quite out of keeping with the original, such as a certain title-page image in the book of Cain sitting in the middle of a broken egg, accompanied by the following words "The egg is broken / The egg is broken / And all the king's men / Can't mend it again" is from the nursery rhyme Humptydumpty in Mother Goose.Who is Humptydumpty? Judging from the beautiful title page, one might have a rather beautiful guess, but ...... Humptydumpty was actually a big fat man in English legend, translated as "egg" because his body had gotten so fat that it was the same shape as an egg. and the same shape as an egg ......

Western media reported on March 1 that a British man named Chris Roberts wrote an article on the subject. Roberts, a British man, wrote a book called "Easy to Ditch the Dull Words," which argues that many old British children's songs are impure, with royal scandals, religious hatred, violent murders, and pornographic money deals filling the lyrics.

Roberts said in his new book: "There were no nursery rhymes written specifically for children to sing, adults hummed their own made-up or popular ditties all day long, and children learned them by ear; some parents deliberately used the 'news' of the day as the lyrics, and then set them to a catchy tune. Some parents deliberately used the 'news' of the day as the lyrics, with catchy tunes, to tell their children stories and put them to sleep, so it is not surprising that religion, sex, money, and scandals became the subjects of children's songs." One example of how songs "subtly carry bad messages" is said to be the famous "Jack and Jill Went to the Mountain," which, according to Roberts, has lyrics that ostensibly talk about a boy and a girl going up a mountain to pick up water, while in reality it's about a teenage boy and girl having a secret tryst, and the girl probably getting pregnant as a result, which she feels very regret.

Roberts points out that during the Tudor to Stuart periods in England, the English Civil War broke out and court scandals were rumored. By the book gives a number of examples, analyzing those popular in people were ordered not to talk about these events publicly, only to make these things into children's songs, the result is sung by generations of children to this day. For example, "Oranges and Lemons", which describes the atmosphere of London, "Mary Mary is Conflicted", which alludes to Queen Mary I, "George Poggi", which alludes to the Duke of Buckingham, and many other famous children's songs. Many famous children's songs, such as "George Poggi", which alludes to the Duke of Buckingham, were produced during these two dynasties. The content of the children's songs at this stage was obscure, but the melody was touching, and the lyrics were catchy, and thus they were widely circulated.

Composer Ravel even used the Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes as a source of inspiration to write the Mother Goose Suite.

Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Collection (Mother Goose)