Chinese Songs & Stories for toddlers

[Ah Gin]

Hi folks,

before I dig too deeply, I will appreciate if you folks can share your knowledge or URL on songs & stories for young children, say under 6 years old. Preference will be well known songs and stories enjoyed by Chinese kids through the ages.

Regards, Ah Gin

[chansomvia]

Hi Ahgin,
You bring up an interesting topic as we were not able to get the common songs, nursery rhymes and poems as we know them in Malaysia for the under 6's from China. It appears that these were destroyed during the Revolution and most of the 30-50 year old we met did not know the songs. They were taught to sing patriotic songs.

The best source is Singapore or Malaysia, Hongkong is another source. Hope this info is useful.

Joe

[Ah Gin]

Joe,

Thanks for your suggestions. Meanwhile, I have started to collect some of my childhood songs, stories from whatever sources I can get my hands on. In time I will share the titles.

Regards, Ah Gin

[tyuti1668]

It's a Small World -Almost every child brainwashed by HK TV had image of it ;D

-
douglaslam,
Classical nursery rhyme in our dialect ;D

[douglaslam]

tyuti1668,

Thanks for sending the link. I can vaguely remember the ditty. I left China for Hong Kong when I was just eight years old. Now, I am a senior citizen.

I retain the ability to speak our dialect because we spoke it at home in HK and even here in Australia. In fact,I can speak better than many villagers who lived away in other parts of China. I don't get to speak it often because my elders had passed on, and my wife side of the family is from Hoiping. She speaks standard HK Cantonese.

The downloading is painfully slow because we are still relying on copper wire. The govt. promised to roll out fibre optic cable, which may take years to fruition. I just have to put up with it.

[Ah Gin]

tyuti1668,

For some reason I can't see what you have posted, just some Australian local ad (which is annoying). Can you repost of send the URL to my PM. Thanks.

Regards, Ah Gin

[tyuti1668]

Apr 24, 2010 15:57:43 GMT -5 Ah Gin said:

tyuti1668,
For some reason I can't see what you have posted, just some Australian local ad (which is annoying). Can you repost of send the URL to my PM. Thanks.
1Regards, Ah Gin

ball.mocasting.com/p/153172

[Ah Gin]

Thanks tuti1668. Wow, "It's a small world after all" rings in my ears even after hours after play :-)

Regards, Ah Gin

[chansomvia]

Hi Ahgin,

My daughter just came back from home and she brought some CD's with Chinese and Malaysian songs for our grandkids, I had a look at the cover and found that they specialise in toddlers songs.

This is the website, www.warm372.com/. Prices are in Malysian Ringgits. You can also get them from MPH bookstores in Singapore and Malaysia.

No free downloads yet.

Joe

[Ah Gin]

Joe,

Many thanks. I managed to rediscover quite a number of childhoood songs, both in Cantonese and Mandarin and down loadable from Utube; so I am under control. If you are interested, I can send you the URL.

The thing is, on the 15th June, our organisation has a gig at our local library. The deal is for us to perform to a bunch of kids (infant to preschool), in Cantonese and Mandarin. There will be sing along songs, story to tell, craft activities, magic show of sort. It's a day before Dragon Boat Festival. Now telling the kids the full story of Tung Ng Festival (5/5) is not really a good idea. So I will concentrate on food, activities, and Chinese heritage associated with this and related festivals (following festival is of course Mid Autumn Festival). I hope the kids like my show. or I will end up with lots of tomatoes, apples on my plate :-)

On a related thing, on Utube, I keep tripping into Teresa Tang's many songs, and I get distracted. And I feel homesick for my lost youth. Ah, such happy days, sitting in Kopitiam, eating char kui tiu, and listening to Radifusion. But that's another story.

Regards, Ah Gin