Hao Mama 好妈妈 » rhymes http://haomama.us Raising Children in Mandarin and English Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:41:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Chinese Little Piggy http://haomama.us/2009/05/22/chinese-little-piggy/ http://haomama.us/2009/05/22/chinese-little-piggy/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 17:42:58 +0000 sophie http://haomama.us/?p=181 When I was growing up, my family made up alternative versions of This Little Piggy, depending on where we were traveling and living. A new Chinese version, created by my children’s grandfather, goes like this:

This little piggy read Confucius
This little piggy read Laozi
This little piggy drank doujiang
This little piggy ate baozi
And this little piggy went “Hao a, Hao a, Hao a” all the way home.

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一二三四五，上山打老虎， (yi er san si wu, shang shan da laohu
老虎打不到，打到小松鼠。 laohu da bu dao, da dao xiao songshu
松鼠有几只？让我数一数， songshu you ji zhi? Rang wo shu yi shu
数来又数去，一二三四五 shu lai you shu qu, yi er san si wu)

One, two, three, four, five
Climbing the mountain to catch a tiger
Can’t catch a tiger, caught little squirrels
How many squirrels? Let me count:
One, two, three, four, five

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