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The Art Form of Folk Nursery Rhymes

Nursery rhymes are folk songs that have been widely circulated among children for a long time, based on children's comprehension and interest and suitable for children's recitation and singing, created by children themselves, adults or literati for children. It is mainly a collective creation of the working people, mainly through word of mouth, short, neat sentences, and closely integrated with the life of the working people, reflecting the social conditions of each era, the people's thoughts, feelings, aspirations and aesthetic interests

Children are interested in the children's side of the occurrence of regional color, concrete and sensible things, will be able to listen to and remember to pass on. Because the creators, receivers and disseminators of nursery rhymes are the people of a certain region, the things appearing in the nursery rhymes must be the things that children can feel and contact in their lives, and once they go beyond a certain region, it will be difficult for them to accept them because of the lack of sufficient concrete images, and even if they accept them for a while, they will soon be forgotten. Therefore, even if the same theme of the nursery rhymes, in the circulation will be changed, so that it becomes the local children familiar with things.