The Chinese Boy and Girl
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The Chinese Boy and Girl is a book by Isaac Taylor Headland of Peking University. The preface says no thorough study of Chinese child life can be made until the wall of Chinese exclusiveness is broken down and the homes of the East are thrown open to the people of the West. The preface says the Chinese nurse brings her Chinese rhymes, stories and games into the foreigner's home for the amusement of its little ones. The writer says that when autumn came the writer had more than fifty of the most common and consequently the best rhymes known in and about Peking.
The text says Baron Vitali, Interpreter at the Italian legation, had collected about two hundred and fifty rhymes and had made a literal, not metrical, translation. The text says children's games are but reproductions of the employments of their parents; they play at farming, carpentry, house-keeping, storekeeping, or whatever employments their parents happen to be engaged in. An old nurse tells of Wu Kang, who was banished to the moon and condemned to perpetual toil in hewing down the cinnamon trees which grow there in great abundance.
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- Author
- Isaac Taylor Headland
- Pages
- 72
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Educational
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