Ironsmith Zhang, Ironsmith Li, make a pair of scissors for my sister. My sister asked me to rest, but I didn't. I rested at the foot of the bridge. A crab pinched a hole in my ear. I couldn't make up for it by killing a pig, so I killed a cow to make up for half of it. At the award ceremony of the 5th International Folk Photography "Human Contribution Award" jointly sponsored by UNESCO and the China Folk Photography Association, a group of children dressed in traditional Daba Mountain costumes danced and performed popular Baqu nursery rhymes with their tender voices, winning warm applause from foreign guests. After being collected and sorted by Tongchuan District, "Baqu Nursery Rhymes" were recognized as provincial intangible cultural heritage in March 2007. Singing since ancient times has far-reaching influence. "Taiping Huanyu Ji" records: "The folk custom of Baqu residents is to beat drums, step on wooden teeth, and sing bamboo branches for fun." Throughout the long history, the folks in Dazhou, on the southern foot of Daba Mountain, have passed down local children's oral songs from generation to generation. From lullabies to tongue twisters for training articulation, they fully reflect the content of Baqu children receiving education, enjoying childhood fun, and growing up and progressing in different historical periods. Bashanqu River is high and long, and life has been extremely difficult since ancient times. The closed environment confined the children's childhood in a small courtyard and village. Most of them had no toys, and the only entertainment was to play simple games with the accompaniment of nursery rhymes. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when Li Zicheng rebelled, the nursery rhymes he compiled for his "tax exemption" advocacy were widely circulated from other places to all parts of Baqu. The catchy nursery rhymes vividly expressed the anger of the working people against the feudal exploitation system. In 1914, a 6-year-old Mengtong in Pujia Town, Tongchuan District, entered the private school Pengcheng Academy. The first nursery rhyme that Mr. Feng Tianlu taught the children was "Zhang Datie and Li Datie". He said mysteriously: "Zhang Datie and Li Datie are two generals of peasant origin, one is Zhang Xianzhong and the other is Li Zicheng. The crab is Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Zicheng hits the officers and soldiers." The seeds of revolution took root in the young mind through the nursery rhyme. Later, Mengtong made great contributions to the establishment of New China and became a revolutionary hero and a founding major general. He was General Wei Chuantong, known as the "Red Confucian General". Since the 1970s, a group of children's literature authors in Dazhou, such as Chen Guanxuan, Deng Yuanjie, Yu Derong, and Peng Wanzhou, have absorbed the nutrition of Baqu nursery rhymes and created a group of excellent children's literature works that are well-known throughout Sichuan and the country. In 2002, Chen Zhengping, a professor of the Chinese Department of Sichuan University of Arts and Sciences, compiled and published the book "Research on Baqu Folk Literature and Folk Customs", which included the chapter "Baqu Folk Children's Songs", and won the third prize of the 10th Sichuan Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Achievement Award in 2002. Baqu nursery rhymes are rich in meaning and have high historical and artistic value. They reflect the growth process of children in successive generations and the social status of different periods. They are a carrier of Baqu customs and living habits, a manifestation of the spiritual culture of Baqu people, especially children, a classic book that records social development, and an effective nutrient for modern children's literature and art. It has nurtured generations of Baqu children and has become the milk for the growth of Baqu children. Many elderly people over 60 or 70 years old still remember the nursery rhymes they sang in their childhood. Nursery rhymes carry the customs of Baqu. Baqu nursery rhymes have diverse sentence patterns, distinct rhythms, beautiful rhymes, and are easy to remember and recite. They are loved and sung by children; they are also rich in content and cover a wide range of topics. They have accompanied children from birth to adulthood, forming a complete series. The third day after the baby is born is the first celebration in the journey of life, "washing the baby's body for three days". On this day, parents will invite relatives, friends and midwives to a banquet. Collect locust branches and mugwort leaves to boil water, and ask experienced midwives to wash the baby's body and sing a blessing: I have a little baby at home, take a bath three days after birth; roll on the round egg, roll out the five poisons and hundreds of diseases. As the child grows up, the mother begins to sing "lullaby" and "hypnotic ballad" for the child: Menyangyang, come early, bring a nap to the baby. Menyangyang, come early, cover the baby with a flower blanket. Menyangyang, come early, cast a good dream for the baby. When the child grows up, he will hear the teaching nursery rhyme: Sit in a row, eat fruit, you one, I one, leave one for my sister to sleep, don't think it's too little, don't argue for more, eat it, smile. As the children grew up and it was time for them to learn, the children's songs expressing the people's political attitudes came to accompany them: There was a county town in northern Sichuan, and there was a plague god Liu (referring to the warlord Liu Cunhou) in the town. When the Red Army arrived, the plague god ran away, and the poor brothers enjoyed peace; the township head combed his hair, the head of the village combed his hair, and the head of the village entered the house and took away the old chicken. There are also "inverted songs" and other humorous children's songs that can make children laugh: On the night of the 30th, the moon was big, and the robbers came out to steal the water tank. The deaf heard the footsteps, and the blind saw them climbing over the wall. The dumb shouted, "Don't rush, go away." The lame got up and chased them. Digging and rescuing, and then shining again. With the development of the times, the relatively closed Baqu farming civilization has been constantly impacted by modern civilization. Children are mostly addicted to TV, online games and other activities, and Baqu children's songs have gradually declined. The old children's songs cannot be passed on, and new children's songs are difficult to produce and spread. The Baqu children's songs with extremely high ideological and artistic value are on the verge of extinction and urgently need to be rescued and protected. While social and economic construction is changing with each passing day, Tongchuan District attaches great importance to education and culture. In 2005, the district invested 40,000 yuan in the census of ethnic and folk cultural protection and rescue projects. In 2006, another 80,000 yuan was allocated to set up a special fund for the protection of intangible cultural heritage. In order to inherit and carry forward this intangible cultural heritage, cultural workers from the Tongchuan District Cultural and Sports Bureau and Cultural Center traveled through mountains and rivers, visited villages and households, collected materials, and searched for traces left by the nursery rhymes that spread all over the land of Baqu. They collected, recorded, classified, and cataloged, and completely archived the Baqu nursery rhymes, and used text, audio, video, multimedia and other means to preserve them in a real, comprehensive and systematic manner. They also established the "Baqu Nursery Rhyme Research Association" to carry out special research, and through social education and school education and other means, ensure that the Baqu nursery rhymes have successors. Cultural workers in Tongchuan District have composed Baqu nursery rhymes into songs and choreographed them into dances, and performed them in various activities such as the "Yuanjiu Climbing Festival", "Rural Tourism Festival", and "Spring Festival Group Gathering" to spread them widely. At present, the district has concluded a comprehensive survey of Baqu nursery rhyme resources, published a collection of Baqu folk nursery rhymes, filmed and produced a number of nursery rhyme singing CDs, incorporated nursery rhymes into the content of each art festival, worked out a plan to establish a Baqu nursery rhyme recitation base, held children's song rehearsal competitions, and invited experts and scholars to hold an academic seminar on Baqu folk nursery rhymes. Baqu nursery rhymes are ushering in another spring of prosperity in the new era.