A little talk about the creation of plant nursery rhymes
Children's songs are composed on a wide range of topics: astronomy and geography, mountains and rivers, birds, beasts, insects and fish, flowers and trees, animals and plants, social life, and so on. Plant nursery rhymes are an important aspect of this.
The author has a poem "Dandelion", the full text of which is as follows:
Don't send it from your father, don't want your mother to accompany you. Alone in the world, without shedding a single tear.
After creating it, I felt good about myself and was included in the collection "I Love Children's Songs". The famous children's poet Sheng Ye also thought it was good, and included it in the author's special collection "The Monkey Became the King of the Mountain". Children's song rookie Lu Guangshun commented in the article "Wonderful in the Plain":
The two "don'ts" are very powerful, writing the resolute attitude of Dandelion to leave independently and not relying on adults, "going into the world alone without shedding a single tear", portraying the image of a man as a self-improvement. The nursery rhyme tells children to establish a spirit of self-improvement and self-reliance like dandelions and learn to do things independently.
I think the smooth analysis makes sense and is convincing. However, Mr. Zhang Jilou commented: "Lack of dandelion physical properties (characteristics), do not want parents to accompany a lot of animals and plants. Zhang Jilou is worthy of being a nursery rhyme everyone, and he can see the problem. Therefore, in the future, when the opportunity is appropriate, I will add the physical content and modify it as follows:
"Sister Dandelion, fly forward with an umbrella. Don't send it from your father, don't want your mother to accompany you. Alone in the world, without shedding a single tear. ”
From this, it follows that children's rhymes about animals, plants, and other objects must be inseparable from the characteristics of the object. Otherwise, it's either a failure or imperfect.
Take a look at the excellent plant songs. Let's take a look at Mr. Seino's "Narcissus Doll" first:
Narcissus dolls, received to my house. Love to drink water, don't eat mud.
According to the Compendium of Materia Medica. Narcissus" contains: "Shi Zhen said that this thing should be humble and wet, and water is indispensable, so it is called Narcissus." Marigold silver platform, flower-like also. "The author does not write about daffodils, only about daffodils. You see, aren't the last two sentences of the nursery rhyme the characteristics of daffodils?
Let's look at Jin Jin's "Plum Blossoms":
Plum blossoms, yellow face, no green clothes on their bodies. When the snow is a padded jacket, the wind comes to hold up the chest. Other flowers are afraid of winter, but only the plum blossoms vigorously.
According to the "Chinese Materia Medica" and "Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine", the Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin called the plum as the cold plum, and there is a sentence of "knowing the visit to the cold plum and passing the wild pond". Before the plum blossom spring, it is the first of a hundred flowers, especially the tiger hoof plum, which blooms in October of the lunar calendar, so it is called early plum. Plum blossoms first and then leaves, flowers and leaves do not meet, when the plum blossom is dry, so it is also called dry branch plum. The day of the plum blossom is mostly the snow flying, want to appreciate the plum blossom, wait for the snow, step on the snow and come, so it is also called the snow plum. And because the plum blossom is in the beginning of winter, it is fruitful at the end of winter, accompanied by winter, so it is also called winter plum.
From this, it is known that the plum blossoms bloom in winter. Therefore, writing a plum blossom nursery rhyme should not be separated from winter and its own characteristics. "Plum Blossoms" is like this: color (face yellow), light branches (no green clothes on the body), not afraid of wind and snow (heavy snow as a cotton jacket, the wind comes to stand up the chest), blooming in winter (other flowers are afraid of winter, only plum blossoms vigorously). What's more, through these descriptions, it shows the excellent quality of the plum blossom that is not afraid of the cold and the snow is in full bloom.
Once upon a time, the author also created a plant children's song "Pumpkin Flower":
Pumpkin vines, yellow flowers, no one loves, no one praises. Don't love, don't boast, still bear big melons.
After the release of this children's song, it was universally praised. In July 2015, during the 8th Annual Conference of Chinese Children's Poetry (Bishan) and Children's Reading Strategy Seminar, the famous children's poet and poetry education expert Xue Ye found the poem at a glance in the author's special collection "The Monkey Became the King of the Mountain", called it a masterpiece, and read it to Zhu Ziqiang, a professor at Ocean University of China, doctoral supervisor and director of the Institute of Children's Literature. Zhang Jilou commented: "Praise ordinary laborers, and see the big from the small. Lu Guangshun sighed: "Be a man and learn pumpkin flowers, don't praise others, just want to do what you should do in obscurity." And God rewards hard work, and if you pay, you will get a harvest, or even a big harvest. ”
The reason why "Pumpkin Flower" is popular is that it has the physical properties of pumpkin flowers (yellow flowers, big melons), and the phenomenon of ordinary ordinariness (no one loves it, no one praises it). Without these physical properties and phenomena, what is written is not pumpkin flowers, and there is no understanding of the truth of life from them.
To sum up, when creating plant nursery rhymes, we must not forget to describe the physical properties of the object, grasp the characteristics of the object, and discover and convey the excellent qualities of truth, goodness, beauty and positive energy.
Qi Wankai).