Nursery Rhymes Comprehensive Theory

Nursery rhymes now play a very important role of folklore. In the ancient times, it was also be called as "Ruzi ballad" and "Infant lexicon" etc.. Since time of Zhou Zuoren on, this word started another saying of "Children's songs". The researchers that devote in literature and art theory consider there is a regular difference between "song" and "rhyme" as "Song" have a broad sense and conclude "rhyme" in. But present theory and mass understanding on rhyme or Children's song appeared as comprehensive confusion or improper using.Seeing a angle on logic, we through the appearance to the essence must based on the origin. Process from Nursery rhymes' start-up to spread to children's mouth demonstrate us: the children themselves judges a ballad is a real Nursery rhyme or not. In another word, it only can be temper in children's choosing, and they are the unique owner of Nursery rhymes.A real Nursery rhyme is a kind of folk literature which spreading abrad and very popular among children. It is a part to compose children's culture and reflects children's spititual purchasing. There are four characteristics of Nursery rhyme-Oral spreading, Collective creating, Continuously variegating and Life harmonizing. It is a mental game that brings children an unruffled scenery and unconstrained atmosphere with selflessness.Previously research on Nursery rhymes' education value always hold a "educationalism" vision as lies in provide children knowledge and technique ability or ethics criterions etc.. But we think that it is only a slice part of the Nursery rhyme. The modern education shows it is very important of children's present experience and give a highly comment of daily life is a real teacher for children. According to this view, the most important part of Nursery rhyme is to provide a now-perfect-experience to children without any other purpose."Grey Nursery rhyme" becomes the hot topic on nowadays research and also presented us the current situation of this culture. The researchers took a child's view, mixed with literature-art theory, psychology and education knowleges then raised a point of "Grey Nursery rhyme" is a kind of reflection from "Carnival psychology". It is quite a normal behavior during a child's psychological developing when he is using language to exchange information with others. Or u can understand as: the children is guarding their culture in this form. As a result, it is a nature demand accompany children's growth. This so-called "Grey Nursery rhyme" is a comment in a adult's standard, while children themselves never knows what is a "Nursery rhyme dissimilation" or how to understand a "Grey mother goose" etc..