| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺東師範學院 === 兒童文學研究所 === 90 === A Study on Guey-Chao Huang’s Children’s Songs
Mei-Ying Wu
Graduate Institute of Children’s Literature
National Taitung Teachers College
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationship between Guey-Chao Huang’s children’s songs and the children’s literature. As to the outline, the life story of Guey-Chao Huang was first put to the focus. Secondly, the characteristics of children’s songs by Guey-Chao Huang were examined with text-analysis method. Then, the relationship between Guey-Chao Huang’s children’s songs and Amis children’s culture was explored with structure analysis. In the end, based on the result from former analysis, Guey-Chao Huang’s position and contribution to aboriginal children’s culture was discussed. Therefore, there are three key-points in this paper:
1. To construct the value of aboriginal children’s culture in children’s culture of Taiwan.
2. To find out the relationship between Guey-Chao Huang’s children’s songs and Amis children’s culture. Furthermore, the composition by Guey-Chao Huang was systematically analyzed.
3. To confirm the important position and contribution that Guey-Chao Huang has done on the developmental history of aboriginal children’s culture.
Based on the results of this study, this author makes the following conclusion:
1. There is close relationship between Guey-Chao Huang’s children’s songs and children’s culture
The words of Guey-Chao Huang’s children’s songs cover four characteristics of children’s literature and five characteristics of children’s songs. Besides the common literary part, They are childlike, educational, playful, interesting, plain, musical and practical. Guey-Chao Huang’s work is full of different contents. They cover educational value, life education, gender education and sex education. Besides music, Huang’s work also has literary taste.
2. The interaction between Guey-Chao Huang’s children’s songs and Amis children’s culture
Cultural characteristics revealed from the process of children’s activities, infant naming ceremony and harvest festival have influence on Guey-Chao Huang’s work. The culture includes psychological culture, material culture and technical culture. Guey-Chao Huang’s work manifest the realization of aboriginal life and prove that the Amis children’s life is the social cultural essence of literature.
3. Cotribution done by Guey-Chao Huang
(1) Set a good model for Amis children’s culture
(2) Apply the viewpoints of cultural anthropology to compose Amis children’s songs as well as literary work
(3) Guey-Chao Huang is the navigator of aboriginal children’s literature. He is also the first aborigine to transform Amis children’s songs from oral to written work. As well, the written work was put to public. Dialogue between aboriginal literature and mainstream children’s literature was therefore made.
Key-words: Guey-Chao Huang, children’s songs, Amis, Amis children’s culture
,Aboriginal
|
|---|
