Northeastern Cradle Song Explained

Northeastern Cradle Song is a lullaby known widely in China, and is a folk song representative of Northeast China.

General

The Northeastern Cradle Song is a lullaby known to many people in China. It is a folk song representative of Northeast China.

This cradle song is said to be originally sung in Pulandian, now part of Greater Dalian, at the time when Pulandian was called New Jin Prefecture (in), located north of Jinzhou (in)).^[1]

Lyrics

There are slight differences in the lyrics that people use. The following has been taken in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China.

In popular culture

• In the film The Last Emperor, Ar Mo sang this lullaby twice, to her own baby and to Puyi.

See also

• Lullaby
• Folk song
• Northeast China
• Tha Tha Thabungton

External links

• Northeastern Cradle Song (sung by Xu Guizhu in 1962)

Notes and References

1. According to multiple people living in Dalian. (May, 2009)