What nursery rhymes are there in Taixing

Textual Research on Taixing Folk Song "Cool Moon Baba"

There are many "ballads" and "nursery rhymes", including "prophecies", circulating in China and almost every region. Some important historical predictions may be recorded in official history and national history, but more folk nursery rhymes and ballads are often passed down from mouth to mouth by ordinary people, which are hard to see in ancient books.

The contents of nursery rhymes and ballads are also varied, some praise love, some record local customs and habits, and some are used for children's enlightenment education. For example, the nursery rhyme "Cool Moon Baba" circulating in Taixing area, especially in some towns and villages in eastern Taixing, is a nursery rhyme for children's enlightenment education.

For this nursery rhyme, the author listened to the elders sing the most when I was a child. Every full moon night, my father or grandmother will sing this nursery rhyme to us in the moonlight, and this memory will accompany my childhood. Therefore, the author has unusual feelings for the nursery rhyme Baba on a cool moon. Every time I read and come across this nursery rhyme, I seem to have returned to my father's shoulder, to the moonlight and shadows in the countryside at night, and to my grandmother who died for many years. ...

I often hear people talk about this nursery rhyme after work, but I found that even in different areas of Taixing, there are different versions of this nursery rhyme, such as the version I heard when I was a child:

Cool moon baba,

Seeing the plaid cangue,

There was a heavy sound in the cangue,

It stole my peas. ...

Taixing composer Mr Jin Dongjing arrangement version is:

Cool moon baba,

Visit his home,

Take care of your family,

See everyone.

Without my sister,

Every family has more dolls. ...

See your family, see every family.

There is a donkey in his family.

Stealing beans,

Take the stick, hit it, hit it,

Tell me, sister. ...

Sister shook her hand,

Give me a gas bar.

I didn't have a chance to meet Mr. Kim. I estimate that the golden version of Baba on a cool moon is a Baba song processed by Mr. Jin's words, not the original version of Baba on a cool moon.

Strangely, a few months ago, the author found that the ballad Baba on a Cool Moon was widely circulated not only in Taixing, but also in Santai, hundreds of kilometers away from Taixing, and even in Nantong. However, the name of nursery rhymes has changed slightly, from Taixing to Baba on the Moon, but the content of nursery rhymes is similar. The text reads as follows:

Bright moon, bright Baba,

Looking at my house in the bright moonlight,

Comb your hair, wear osmanthus,

Mom, my heart is full of joy. ...

The author thinks that the spread of Mingyue Baba in Nantong is not difficult to understand, both geographically and culturally, because Taixing and Nantong are in the middle of Jiangsu, and a nice children's song can be sung everywhere like today's pop songs. It is difficult for the author to draw a conclusion whether Taixing is popular in Nantong or Nantong is popular in Taixing. Fortunately, this nursery rhyme is not as famous as the China folk song Jasmine, otherwise a pen and ink lawsuit will be launched between Taixing and Nantong.

There is a folk song "Baba on a cool moon" circulating in Taixing and Nantong, which can be explained geographically, but a year ago, the author encountered another story of "Baba on a cool moon", which many Taixing people may not have heard of. I think in the nursery rhyme incident of Baba on a cool moon:

1. It is difficult to explain geographically, because this place is Changsha City, Hunan Province, thousands of kilometers away from Taixing City, Jiangsu Province, and there is actually a song of the same name called "Cool Moon Baba", and the content is similar.

Secondly, it is difficult to explain it from the humanistic point of view, because there is no mention of the relationship between Taixing people and Changsha, Hunan Province in the annals of Taixing County in previous dynasties.

The author found that there is a story about "Baba nursery rhymes on a cool moon" circulating in Changsha City, Hunan Province. Around August 2009, the author watched a program of Hunan Satellite TV at home, and the host was a famous comic actor soldier. He suddenly mentioned a Changsha folk song-Baba on a cool moon. At that time, the author was very surprised, because as far as I know, the nursery rhyme "Cool Moon Baba" was a nursery rhyme that I grew up singing. When did this nursery rhyme spread from Taixing City, Jiangsu Province to Changsha City, Hunan Province?

Soldiers rapped out the lyrics of Leng Yue Baba on TV:

Cool moon baba,

See cangue cangue ...

The content is very similar to that of Baba on a cool moon sung by the author when he was a child.

At that moment, my thinking transcended traditional knowledge and imagined the possible connection between this legendary Jiangsu nursery rhyme and Taixing, Changsha and Hunan. Later, I watched the serial of Hunan Satellite TV's "Bloody Xiangxi" and found Hunan dialects, such as "Qu Yuan Di Ya" and "Mourning" (the mourning ceremony after the death of family members), calling children "evil" and so on. The pronunciation is exactly the same as the local dialect in Taixing City, Jiangsu Province.

Folk dialects, ballads and nursery rhymes in China are another form of historical fossils, which contain too much historical information that cannot be recorded in written history. The author has always believed that the history of China is recorded in writing, which is less than one tenth of the real existence. The naive nursery rhyme "Cool Moon Baba" in Taixing City, Jiangsu Province may contain information about where the ancient Taixing people came from and where they went. However, the author's ability to test history is limited and he can only imagine this part of history. I hope some experts and scholars can help me.