Hundred and Thirty-Four Fairy Tales

Author: Xu Shicheng
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Publish Date: 2000-02-05
Features: Unfiltered children's speech. Most children's rhymes are simple, easy to understand, and sincere, reflecting children's different perceptions and attitudes toward social life and natural phenomena in different periods. They sing about their lives and games, express their family love and childhood joys, and train their language skills. Children's rhymes are often combined with games, embodying children's natural essence without any constraints. In their simplicity and purity, they exude a passion for truth, goodness, and beauty, even becoming a prophecy of social changes. It can be said that without children's rhymes, there is no childhood. The new edition of "Three Hundred Children's Rhymes" selects widely popular children's rhymes from various periods and regions in China, from playful ones like "Little Mouse Climbing the Lantern," sweet lullabies like "Rock-a-Bye Baby," to friendly ones like "Sit in a Circle," as well as question-and-answer rhymes like "Round Song," counting rhymes like "Frog Song," and game rhymes like "Eagle Catching Chickens." These reflect the major characteristics of Chinese children's rhymes. Repeated recitation helps children develop imagination, gain initial emotional experiences and cognitive abilities, train oral skills, and appreciate the beauty of their mother tongue.
Introduction: Children's rhymes reflect children's various perceptions and attitudes toward social life and natural phenomena, singing about their lives and games, and expressing their family love and playful interests. The content is rich, lively, vibrant, and healthy. Most children's rhymes are simple and straightforward, often combined with games, close to children's lives, full of childhood charm, free and unrestrained, and possess a unique simplicity, purity, and freshness of truth, goodness, and beauty. This book collects three hundred widely popular children's rhymes from various regions. Based on content, they can be divided into six major categories: learning to be good people, strengthening the body, increasing knowledge, cultivating abilities, playing more games, and family love and playful interests. The book is rich in content, beautifully printed, and includes Pinyin annotations, making it especially suitable for children's age characteristics and learning levels. It is the best companion for children, especially young children.