Minnan nursery rhymes are children's ballads written and sung in Minnan language, which are popular in Minnan area of Taiwan Province Province and overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. It is a form of folk literature formed by Minnan people in the past dynasties according to children's understanding ability and psychological characteristics, using the complex and musically beautiful rhyme and flat rhythm of Minnan dialect, and constantly revising and supplementing it in the singing process.

Moonlight is a folk nursery rhyme in Fujian in the Tang Dynasty, which is very similar in theme and structure to the nursery rhyme of the same name circulating in southern Fujian today, although it is different in words. It can be seen that Minnan nursery rhymes appeared in the Tang Dynasty. After the middle and late Ming Dynasty, as Minnan people crossed Taiwan Province Province and went south to Southeast Asia, Minnan nursery rhymes spread to China, Taiwan Province Province and Southeast Asian countries, and took root in these areas, which promoted each other with local culture and created many new nursery rhymes.

In the 1920s, Zhou Shu 'an, the first generation of modern musicians in China, wrote Sleeping Song for the Minnan nursery rhyme Jing Yao, which was the first time that a musician wrote a Minnan nursery rhyme. Since 1950s, a new generation of musicians, such as Yang Yang, Yuan Rongchang, Wu, Yang Shuangzhi, etc., have created many children's songs in southern Fujian, among which Yuan Rongchang's A Man's surname is Fu, Dog Ants (Ants) Carrying Centipedes, Red Shrimp, and Jumping Fire Group are influential.

Means of artistic expression

Minnan nursery rhymes have inherited the traditional artistic technique of "going to Fu Bi" in China, and used various rhetorical devices to express things by using the beauty of music and rhythm brought by the richness of pronunciation and the diversity of rhymes in Minnan dialect, so as to improve the artistic effect of the content and enhance the artistic appeal and charm. For example, The Woodlouse Marries Weng adopts personification figures of speech, A Grass Exposes a Little, metonymy figures of speech, Three Fighting Fires in Luanchuan, hyperbole figures of speech, Shoulan Song and so on.

Due to the impact of modern culture and the loss of dialects, Minnan nursery rhymes are gradually moving away from children. Since 2007, Xiamen Education Bureau and other units have jointly held a cross-strait radio and television contest to read songs every year. In June 2009, Minnan Nursery Rhyme Culture Research Association was established in Xiang 'an District, Xiamen.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-"Nursery rhymes (Minnan nursery rhymes)"