The song for children is not easy to write, and children's songs need to be sung with literary and rhythmic beauty. Having genuine emotions and childlike innocence, finding the language of children is the key to writing good nursery rhymes. In the face of massive information and diverse channels, only by improving the penetration and visibility of children's songs on platforms such as the internet can good works reach more audiences. Is there a song that reminds you of childhood? From "Selling Newspaper Songs" and "Red Star Songs" to "Snails and Orioles", "Catching Loaches", and "Where is Spring", every age group is accompanied by classic nursery rhymes, giving childhood a rich color and a long aftertaste. Today, the creation and dissemination of children's songs face a new era background. How to write songs that have a sense of the times and are loved by children, and how to make more good songs heard and sung? As summer approaches, let's enter early childhood education institutions, professional groups, and management departments to find answers through interviews with music creators, frontline teachers, textbook writers, and theoretical critics. The results of the seventh national population census show that the population aged 0-14 in China is 253 million, accounting for 17.95% of the total population. In December 2023, the Ministry of Education issued a notice requiring the comprehensive implementation of the school art education infiltration action. According to the recently released "2024 China Music Industry Development Report", the total scale of China's music industry in 2023 is about 469.562 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.75%. The vast audience, high emphasis on aesthetic education in society, thriving music industry, coupled with changes in media environment and aesthetic concepts, all pose new challenges for children's song creation. On the evening of June 1st, at the Opera Concert Hall of the Central Conservatory of Music, the "Song for Children - Children's Works Special Concert" kicked off amidst pure and innocent singing, gradually fading away their childlike faces and growing into a youthful appearance, making a wish to plant my dream, and making a vow to cherish the distance. The concert performed over 20 children's songs, most of which were selected from the "Childlike Heart Towards the Future - Contemporary Children's Song Creation and Promotion Activity". The "Childlike Heart Towards the Future - Contemporary Children's Song Creation and Promotion Activity" organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the National Children's Work Committee was launched in 2022. 1259 children's songs were collected nationwide, with participants including professionals and amateur enthusiasts, as well as primary and secondary school and kindergarten teachers and parents. Experts in various fields such as lyrics and music selected 30 lyrics from them, further modified and processed them, and commissioned outstanding composers from the old, middle, and young generations to compose. Through multiple stages such as arrangement, recording, and video recording, 16 excellent children's songs were finally released. Many creators have expressed that "songs for children are not easy to write." Children's songs require profound knowledge and understanding of language, as they are also a means of cultivating children's language abilities. It is generally believed that children's songs should be easy to understand, healthy and uplifting, and catchy. If we simply emphasize the role of education, which is not in line with the current aesthetic of children, and ignore their understanding and acceptance ability, it may lead to empty lyrics, falling into clich é s, lacking freshness, not being close to children's lives, and not conducive to singing and dissemination. Children's songs also require literary and rhythmic beauty to sing "children's words". "Outside the Changting Pavilion, by the ancient road, the lush grass stretches to the sky, the evening wind brushes against the willows and the sound of the flute remains, and the sunset sets on the mountains outside..." This poem "Farewell" showcases the rhythmic and structural beauty of classical Chinese poetry. Children may find it difficult to fully understand the feeling of separation, but their young hearts are moved by beautiful imagery, which in turn stimulates imagination. To write a song that children love to sing, the first step is to love and understand children, and understand their daily lives and spiritual world. A song called "Chinese Children", sung from the CCTV Spring Festival Gala to the streets and alleys, and from the 90s to the 2010s. The composer Qi Jianbo, who composed the music for "Chinese Children", once served as a music teacher at Weihai No.7 Middle School and Weihai No.1 Middle School. His long-term life accumulation was the foundation for him to write good children's songs. "To write children's songs well, one must have genuine emotions and childlike innocence, find the 'language of children'," said Qi Jianbo. "You Laugh Well" won the Excellent Work Award of the 16th "Five One Project" of the Central Propaganda Department for Spiritual Civilization Construction. Composer Li Kaichou told us that "the creation of this song originated from his love for his daughter." As a father, Li Kaichou wanted to use music to record his child's growth. Later, he found that there were too few new nursery rhymes suitable for children to sing, so he had a creative consciousness. "Some works are very minimalist in form, looking like children's songs, but they deviate from real life." Han Xin'an, Secretary of the Party Group and Vice Chairman of the China Musicians Association, has been pondering why some adult children's songs may feel good but have not been widely sung? Perhaps because children nowadays are not as "simple" as we imagine. Children of each age group enjoy different songs, and they are not passive recipients of music works. Breaking away from the aesthetic rules of nursery rhymes, lacking a sense of the times and fashion, cannot bring new cognition, and works are difficult to win the love of children. The popular song "The Lone Brave" has been widely sung in kindergartens and primary schools, which surprised both its creators and singers. In the opinion of Xie Cheng, associate professor at the Creative College of Beijing Dance Academy, the lyrics of "The Lonely Brave" fit the psychological desire of children to be understood and recognized. "Nameless person, I offer you a glass of wine, to your silence and every roar, to you bending over and climbing up the mountain..." The lyrics of the theme song "Nameless Person" from the animated movie "Lion Boy" are also very moving. "The theme of this song is inspirational, with delicate expression. There are no grand words, but it can be written into people's hearts. Children's songs should also be expressed in words that children can identify with and empathize with," said Li Kaichou. The creation of nursery rhymes also needs to face the aesthetic changes brought about by communication media. Nowadays, people are gradually getting used to the rhythm of short videos. If a children's song is still three or four minutes long, and only the prelude has 30 seconds, will children have the patience to listen to it? "The catchy chorus and the elegant lyrics are also the rules that a children's song can be sung," pointed out a composer. Inspire more people to write songs for children and build a professional and youthful creative team. Every weekend, the surrounding areas of Beijing's West Second Ring Road and China Children's Center are always bustling with traffic. Xie Cheng also serves as a music enlightenment teacher at the Interest Training Department of the China Children's Center. He believes that the music aesthetics shaped during childhood will accompany him throughout his life. "Our elders used to listen more to traditional Chinese opera when they were young, so they had more emotions towards it. Our generation grew up in the reform and opening up and preferred popular music. Nowadays, children listen to both traditional Chinese music and global music, building their aesthetic awareness through rich and healthy auditory experiences." In the classroom, Xie Cheng recommended two types of songs to children: one is listening, colorful and diverse, and the other is singing, with strong narrative, suitable for children's breath, pronunciation, and pronunciation. The memory left by touching songs is long-lasting. No matter which exciting song, wherever you first heard it, the scene will remain deeply in your memory Educator Wu Boxiao wrote at the beginning of his essay "Song". In the view of Du Yongshou, the chief editor of People's Music Publishing House, "changing customs and habits, not being good at music" is our tradition. Singing is a natural expression of emotions and an important way of memory. Compared to instrumental music and art, singing has a natural and convenient advantage in aesthetic education. Excellent nursery rhymes often have both artistic and aesthetic value, as well as an educational and entertaining role. This demands the creative subject. The creation of children's songs in our country has a history of over a hundred years. Starting from school songs in the early 20th century, most of the excellent children's songs passed down from different historical periods were completed by professional song creators. The children's songs that we are familiar with today are mostly written by famous writers, many of whom were written when they were young. For example, Li Shutong was in his thirties when he wrote the lyrics for "Farewell", Fu Gengchen was in his thirties when he wrote "Red Star Song", and Qiao Yu was less than thirty years old and Liu Chi was less than forty years old when he wrote "Let's Row Double Paddles". When it comes to composer Gu Jianfen, who is in his 80s, his physical strength and ability to write songs for children, many people greatly admire him. In recent years, Gu Jianfen has devoted herself wholeheartedly to creating the "New School Song" series of works that compose music for ancient Chinese poetry. At present, 50 songs have been produced and have achieved results in pilot schools in multiple regions. Qi Jianbo also creates school songs for many primary schools, middle schools, and universities in China for free. In Han Xin'an's view, the diversity of creative team, organizational structure, and knowledge structure is the basic appearance of the current children's song creation group. "According to statistics, thousands of new songs are produced worldwide every day. In recent years, some excellent children's songs have emerged, but the proportion of children's songs in overall music creation is still relatively small, and there is still a shortage of talents specialized in children's song creation." Han Xin'an said. Children's Music magazine receives thousands of submissions every year, and editorial director Liu Jing believes that to a certain extent, the quality of submissions reflects the age gap and lack of connection among children's song creators. "We lack a professional and youthful nursery rhyme creation team, resulting in many works becoming adult and conceptual, disconnected from children's lives." Industry insiders say that "the production cost of a nursery rhyme is not less than 60000 yuan", "the profits are very small, and nursery rhyme creation is generally considered to be of a public welfare nature", "online consumption and copyright awareness are still being established"... These all make young creators hesitant. To improve the overall quality of children's song creation, it is essential to focus on building a professional and youthful creative team. To build this team well, it is necessary to fundamentally solve the source of creative motivation. In recent years, various sectors of society have attached great importance to the creation of children's songs, and related collection and promotion activities have continuously emerged. In 2023, the China Musicians Association launched the "New Era Excellent Children's Song Creation and Promotion Project", which is currently entering the second stage. The selected songs will be auditioned and sung on campuses in multiple parts of the country to listen to children's feedback. The Central Conservatory of Music has launched a collection activity for writing songs for younger brothers and sisters, organizing teachers and students from music colleges across the country to create works for children. The People's Music Publishing House has held the 20th China Children's Song Karaoke TV Competition, and the 208 songs included in the 20th competition have been published and distributed. The "China in the Voice of Children" national children's choir activity organized by the Propaganda Department of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, and the "New Era · Good Campus Songs" collection and selection activity organized by the Sichuan Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles have had an impact within a certain range. To some extent, classics are formed in transmission. Objectively speaking, in the context of decentralized and diversified communication patterns, the difficulty of 'singing the same song' is increasing. " Han Xin'an said. Many respondents expressed the need for in-depth research on communication patterns to expand the space for the dissemination of more good works. Textbooks are a stable channel for dissemination. Over the past 70 years, the People's Music Publishing House has published over 10000 music books and scores, and its music textbooks have influenced many people. In accordance with the requirements of the new curriculum standard of the Ministry of Education, the starting grade range (first grade, seventh grade) of the "Renyin Edition" new textbook will be put into use in this autumn semester. Du Yongshou said that according to the requirements of the new curriculum standard, ideological, artistic, and suitability are the standards for selecting songs in textbooks. The new "Renyin Edition" textbook for compulsory education includes approximately 500 music works, including 325 songs, many of which are popular on campus