Chinese Mother Goose RhymesA collection of nursery rhymes translated from Chinese, including ones on lady bugs, kites, and bumps on the head. Also includes the rhymes in Chinese characters. |
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BABY IS SLEEPING bald-headed BEAN SPROUTS beans beat the drum big saw bite bought bride bright CICADA coat crow door dragon drum fat boy Feed upon dew feet frog FROGGIE gold plated grandpa hair head hemp Here's horse incense ITTLE king will want little baby little boy little girl little snail loves to eat mama mama's MAMA'S BOY married meat monkey mutton need your trousers OLD GRANNY CHANG old woman Peking pimple will grow Pull RED PEPPER rhymes rice riding scolded because twas sell sister SMALL PUG DOG steal SWALLOW'S NEST SWEET PILL tail turnip University of California Wa'rh water the flowers wear WEE little whip wife 了了 信長 兒兒 子子 我我 汪梆 的的 眼睛 眼睛眼 眼見 美食 項目 餐食 馬頭
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Page 7 - There are probably more nursery rhymes in China than can be found in England and America. We have in our possession more than six hundred, collected for the most part in two out of the eighteen provinces, and we have no reason to believe that we have succeeded in getting any large proportion of what those two provinces contain.
Page 40 - The little mousey brown, To steal and eat tallow, And he couldn't get down. He called for his grandma But his grandma was in town, So he doubled up into a wheel And rolled himself down.
Page 106 - THE OLD WOMAN There was an old woman, As I've heard tell, She went to sell pie, But her pie would not sell. She hurried back home, But her door-step was high. And she tumbled and fell, And a dog ate her pie.
Page 13 - We keep a dog to watch the house, a pig is useful, too. We keep a cat to catch a mouse, but what can we do with a girl like you?
Page 33 - Lady-bug, lady-bug, Fly away, do, Fly to the mountain, And feed upon dew, Feed upon dew, And sleep on a rug, And then run away Like a good little bug.
Page 30 - When e'er the Milky Way you spy Diagonal across the sky, The egg-plant you may safely eat, And all your friends to melons treat. But when divided toward the west, You'll need your trousers and your vest; When like a horn you see it float, You'll need your trousers and your coat.
Page 25 - BABY IS SLEEPING My baby is sleeping, my baby's asleep, my flower is resting, I'll give you a peep; how cunning he looks as he rests on my arm! My flower's most charming of all them that charm.
Page 50 - ... of these rhymes are very interesting, while their appeals to the weaknesses and to the strong points of children often equal, if they do not excel, the corresponding characteristics of the rhymes of the white race. The " Pat-a-cake " rhyme — Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Little girl fair, There's a priest in the temple Without any hair. You take a tile, And I'll take a brick, And we 'll hit the priest, In the back of the neck — shares, and all nature lives for the little child.
Page 113 - Knock at the door, See a face, Smell an odor, Hear a voice, Eat your dinner Pull your chin, or Ke chih, ke chih.
Page 10 - The small-footed girl with the sweet little smile, she loves to eat sugar and sweets all the while. Her money's all gone and because she can't buy, she holds her small feet while she sits down to cry.