My hometown, Xiaogan, Hubei, is the hometown of Yong Dong in The Fairy Match. It is not only a famous land of plenty, but also a hometown of dutiful sons in history. Located in Jianghan Plain, it is steady and simple.

For thousands of years, some nursery rhymes have been circulated among the people, all of which have been handed down orally from generation to generation, but there are no ancient records. However, the environmental soil taught now is gradually barren, and some of them have been lost. I feel sorry every time I think about it. Those songs accompanied us throughout our childhood and brought us a lot of happiness. When I think of them, my heart is full of sweetness.

In recent years, every time I went back to my hometown for the New Year, I asked some elders to recite the nursery rhymes that taught us to sing in those years. After years of unremitting efforts, I have basically collected nursery rhymes sung as a child. I hope that these folk cultural treasures will not be lost in the long river of years, but will be handed over to the next generation intact, leaving a valuable spiritual wealth for future generations.

The first song Brother Moon was the first nursery rhyme I learned when I was a child. I remember I just learned to walk, and I'm still babbling. On a summer night full of moonlight, adults took me to the threshing floor in front of the village to enjoy the cool. The moon was full that night. I clearly remember that the moonlight reflected the floor of the threshing floor into a glistening piece. I am wearing plastic sandals bought by adults and chasing the moonlight on the ground excitedly.

Brother Moon, come with me.

Go to the river to buy baskets;

Breaking baskets and picking water chestnuts;

Water chestnut sharp, pestle to heaven;

The sky is high, so it is good to cut a knife;

The knife is fast and it is easy to cut vegetables;

Eating thin is easy to beat gongs;

Gong rang again, changing ginger;

Ginger is spicy and changed to yellow wax;

Yellow wax is bitter, tofu is beaten;

Tofu is sweet and good for the New Year.

Eat this year and look forward to next year.

When we grow up, adults will lead a group of our friends to sit in a circle and play the game of "counting feet". In the game, we sing:

Feet, feet, eggshells,

The water in Yangjiahe does not fall,

Not falling south, not falling north,

Buckwheat grows in Kitaueda,

Buckwheat looks white when it blooms.

Eggplant has purple flowers,

Gold dustpan, silver dustpan,

Who's Feet? Take it.

This game is to test the reaction speed of each of our children. When we sing, we point our fingers at everyone in turn. We sang the last sentence, which foot is sharp, so we quickly retracted it, or we lost. Now that I think about it, it should be an intellectual breakthrough of our time.

Just now, that song talked about Yangjiahe, and the next song "Stars in the Sky" will also talk about Yangjiahe. Yangjiahe is a river in our hometown, which originates from Dahongshan. When it flows through jingshan county and Anlu City, it is called Zhanghe River, and when it flows through Yanghe Town in Yingcheng City, it is also called Yangjiahe River. Each place has a different name, but it is actually the same river:

The stars in the sky are shining,

There is a red light hanging on the willow branches.

The red light is broken, twelve,

All the way to Yangjiahe.

The water in Yangjiahe is very deep.

Only cotton has no roots.

The crow crossed the water bridge,

Oh, oh, I can't press it;

Pigs have firewood, dogs use fire,

The cat laughed me to death;

Cattle sit at the table, horses accompany guests,

Donkeys can't escape with food.

Chickens wash dishes and peck pots,

The mouse closed the door and laughed to death.

This nursery rhyme depicts a lively scene of an animal world with personification and imaginative thinking. A strong sense of substitution makes people feel immersive. I really want to be one of the animals and play happily with them.

The following song "Strike while the iron is hot" is humorous and vivid, with a strong flavor of life:

Zhang hit the iron, Li hit the iron,

Give my sister a pair of scissors,

My sister asked me to rest, but I didn't.

I'm going back to harvest barley,

Barley hasn't turned yellow yet,

I'm going back to sweep the rice fields,

The rice fields are still wet,

I'm going back to make shoes,

Chop the shoes with a knife if they are not broken.

Chop the knife and fry the rice with oil and salt.

"Song of Ordering" is also a personification of various vegetables and fruits, lively and lovely, full of fun, which makes people smile:

Watermelon sits outside nave, and children of cantaloupe line up.

Kohlrabi came to tell the media that girls should choose their own grooms.

One suspects that wax gourd is fat, and the other suspects that Zanzi is long.

Third, bitter gourd is full of thorns, and fourth, pumpkin is yellow.

Take a fancy to the talent of bamboo shoots and melons, and choose auspicious day to marry and pair.

Red and white radish sedan chair, big pepper holding lantern palm.

Flammulina velutipes blows the trumpet and gourd rings the bell.

The bridesmaid is Lily, and all her relatives and in-laws are full.

Pig Bajie came on the way, and it was a big deal to tear down Taiwan.

I am afraid that the loofah is not done well, and I am afraid that the cabbage will be rolled up.

Scared lentils climbed onto the shelves, and scared eggplant was purple and white.

Bai Lianhua saw something bad and got into the pond, afraid to lift his head.

Finally, the twelfth lunar month song, a nursery rhyme, depicts the lively scenes of the New Year one by one, like a comic book. At that time, what children were looking forward to most was the Chinese New Year, because at that time, there was a lack of material resources and they usually lived a tight life. China New Year means having delicious food and new clothes to wear. Now we live a wonderful life. As long as we are willing to spend money, every day can be like Chinese New Year. It is precisely because of this that the usual Chinese New Year scenes gradually disappeared and withdrew from the historical stage one by one. In those years, people have no time to deal with new year's goods. Everything is bought by the supermarket, which is simple, rude and direct. It is difficult to see the unique scenes of the previous Chinese New Year, which has lost the taste for many years:

Twenty-one, fried rice.

Twenty-two, buy New Year pictures.

Twenty-three, lollipops

Twenty-four, dust

Twenty-five, tofu.

Twenty-six, braised bacon.

Twenty-seven, one year is over.

Twenty-eight, insert red wax.

Twenty-nine, everything.

Thirty nights, peach blossoms wither.

The first day is early, and the year is good.

Hook your waist and raise your hand.

I want to take all the golden fruits and dates.

When I was a child, there was a nursery rhyme "Fried Straw Bag", which was a bit picky. Only use it when I hate someone to the extreme. I didn't intend to include it at first, but later I found it very valuable and meaningful. Let's come in so as not to cause regret;

The plane flies high, fried straw bag.

Bastard, if you don't surrender, blow his mother up.

His mother doesn't cry. Blow up his house.

If his house doesn't fall down, blow up his grass.

He can't get grass and fry his grandmother.

His grandmother is a fairy, blow up his abacus.

His abacus is not broken, blow up his foreign goods!

When I was a child, every time I saw a plane flying in the sky, we would sing this children's song together, so it is still fresh in my memory and I haven't forgotten a word.

There is also a childhood memory that does not belong to our hometown. When I was a child, I recited "Children's Songs for 365 Nights" bought by my father. That set of books has always been two volumes, all of which are 365 children's songs. Because it's so interesting and worth collecting. I believe many friends will recite this song "the Monkey King hits the monster":

Tang priest rode a horse, bang bang,

Followed by a the Monkey King.

The Monkey King, run,

Followed by a pig.

A pig with a long nose,

Followed by a sand monk.

Friar Sand was carrying a basket.

There is an old witch in the back.

Old hag, that's bad,

Fool Tang Priest and Bajie.

Tang Priest and Bajie are really confused.

You can't tell a man from a demon.

Confused, fooled,

Thanks to the Monkey King's bright eyes.

Bright golden eyes,

Hold high the golden hoop.

Great, powerful,

Demons and ghosts go out!

Dear friends, I will throw a brick to attract jade today. What are the meaningful nursery rhymes in your hometown? You can also share it. China's culture has a long history and is profound. People all over the country have a wealth of knowledge, which is worth exploring and picking up, so that these cultural treasures forgotten by time can reappear.