Asian folk songs and folklore

[BaiginLong]

In my best Cantonese ping yum(with cloasest translation in parenthesis):
zi do hai yiou ma ma ho (I know that mother is good).... and I forget all of the other words
this was one of my favs too :(
can somebody tell me what the rest of this is
Ask your parents/grandparents etc. if you need to

and another one in Mandarin ping ying:
shiao ah shiao er nah (Little little child)...
bei shang de shu bao shang zie tang (carries a bookbag to school)
bu pa tai yang shai (not afraid of the shining sun)...and I forget from there
the next line is supposed to translate roughly to "but afraid of the teacher's scoldings" or something like that
but I do know the ping ying for part of the hook the hook:
Lun li ga lun li ga lung ga li ga lung
but i have no idea what it means

help me out peeps

and if anyone has any other folk songs or fairy tales/folk stories to add and translate please feel free
I'll be asking my mother for some as soon as Christmas break rolls around for me

^_^

[SunWuKong]

er... not exactly folk songs. more like nursery rhymes they are.

[BaiginLong]

they're songs if you sing them man

[SunWuKong]

they're songs if you sing them man


i thought you said folk songs?

[BaiginLong]

well it's in the general area

[SunWuKong]

well it's in the general area

eh... when i think of folk songs i tend to think of songs that are sung by people of a certain locality and nobody else.

anyway, moving to A&E...

[BaiginLong]

well wait those are folk songs then if by that definition
they are of a certain locality to my knowledge unless you can prove me wrong (which I very well may be)

[SunWuKong]

well wait those are folk songs then if by that definition
they are of a certain locality to my knowledge unless you can prove me wrong (which I very well may be)


aren't those songs pretty much known by all of the general chinese populace? at least that's what i thought. i could be wrong.

[BaiginLong]

not anymore
they've died out so only the country bumpkins really know them

[SunWuKong]

not anymore
they've died out so only the country bumpkins really know them


dude, even iris knows those songs, and she's ABC.... :rolleyes:
but whatever man. it's moot. call them folk songs if you like.
perhaps you should watch Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth. there are some folk songs in that film.

[BaiginLong]

well at least can somebody help me know the rest of those songs!!!!

[ChinaLama]

liang zhi lao fu liang zhi lao fu
pao de kuai, pao de kuai
yi zhi mei you er du, yi zhi mei you wei ba
zhen qi guai zhen qi quai

yes that is the limit of my spoken Chinese. :D

[deez nuts]

yi zhi ha ba go
zo zai dai meng ko

edit: woohoo nursery rhyme and sotry time

[SunWuKong]

liang zhi lao fu liang zhi lao fu
pao de kuai, pao de kuai
yi zhi mei you er du, yi zhi mei you wei ba
zhen qi guai zhen qi quai


sung to the melody of french nursery rhyme Frere Jacques.

[BaiginLong]

ahh those are old
but does any know the rest 0of the ones i mentioned?

[blue__blood]

zi do hai yiou ma ma ho

Uhm, I think anyone that has been near a radio on Mother's Day has heard this song, country bumpkin or not. It's like Hacken's "houn yut..."

Anyhow, I agree with SWK though, when I think of fold songs, I think of mountain courting songs from different locals..

[BeTheReds]

I don't get it...

Asian Children's songs?

Apa ga il e ka nun bbo bbo bbo Oma ga ana jo don bbo bbo bbo
Man na myun pangapdago bbo bbo
He yo jitten do man na yo bbo bbo bbo

Uri nun gwium dong i bbo bbo boo chingu
bbo bbo bbo bbo bbo bbo bbo bbo bbo chingu!

The theme to my favorite korean kids show when i was a young child.

[BaiginLong]

i had to sing a mountain courting song at an international fest @ school
hehe

[SunWuKong]

bump