In what form do children's songs spread?

Spread by word of mouth, in a concentrated and symbolic form, contains strong suspense to arouse children's curiosity.

Children's songs come into children's lives with the mother's singing beside the baby's cradle. With the growth of children's age, from perception to imitation, they finally learn to sing children's songs and gain aesthetic feeling from them. The content of children's songs is often very simple and easy for children to understand, or simply describe and narrate events in a concentrated way, or express ordinary things with simple and interesting rhymes.

For example, Ye Sheng's children's song "Doll": "Doll/disobedient/feed her/refuse to open her mouth." In naivety, it expresses children's imitation and thinking about the life around them. At the same time, when children recite this children's song, they will immediately associate themselves with eating and know how to develop good living habits.

Children's understanding of the surrounding things is still relatively simple, limited to word of mouth. Therefore, the length of children's songs should be short and exquisite, and the structure should be simple and uncomplicated. Common children's songs are generally only four or six or eight short sentences, but of course there are longer ones. Judging from the number of words in each sentence, there are three words, four words, five words, seven words and miscellaneous words. Three sentences, five sentences and seven sentences are basic sentence patterns. Short, simple and natural, easy to learn and sing.

Language features:

The spread of children's songs is largely achieved through games, so it is required that their works are suitable for chanting and can cooperate with the game process, and they must show a distinct sense of music and rhythm.

Children are active and are in the stage of learning language and improving their language expression ability. Children's nursery rhymes with a sense of music, clear rhythm and liveliness can arouse children's sense of beauty and pleasure and stimulate their enthusiasm for learning a language. Therefore, no matter traditional nursery rhymes or nursery rhymes, no matter which nation's nursery rhymes in the world, they all have the characteristics of rhyming, lively rhythm and lively language.

Some children's songs also use overlapping words and rhymes. For example, the children's song "Birds learn to do exercises": "The wind blows willows/birds learn to do exercises/I stretch my legs/it kicks/I clap my hands/it jumps/I bend over/it cocks its tail/it's done/goodbye/the bird flies straight away." The whole song rhymes with "iao" and uses onomatopoeic words and rhymes to show the acoustic beauty, circular beauty and vividness of Chinese, which is suitable for children to learn the language repeatedly.