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The Dragon’s Pearl
Asian Art Museum Storyteller, Miriam Mills, tells the Chinese folktale, “The Dragon’s Pearl” in the Asian Art Museum collection galleries. This video features artworks from the Asian Art Museum’s permanent collection.
The Magic Paintbrush
Leta Bushyhead, Asian Art Museum Storyteller, tells a Chinese folktale inspired by objects in the museum’s collection. Note: The objects in this video are used to enhance this telling of The Magic Paintbrush and were not created by the artists specifically to illustrate this story.
One grabs silver
Chinese Nursery Rhyme
One grabs silver,
Two grabs gold,
Three, don’t laugh
And you’ll grow old.
Little snail
Chinese Nursery Rhyme
Little snail, little snail,
With your hard, stony bed,
First stick out your horns,
Then stick out your head.
Your father and mother
Have brought you some food,
Fried liver and mutton,
Now isn’t that good?
And now, little snail,
Just as sure as I say
You must eat it at once,
Or I’ll take it away.
Oh where is the little snail gone,
Can you tell?
He has drawn himself up,
Head and horns, in his shell.
Ladybug, ladybug
Chinese Nursery Rhyme
Ladybug, ladybug,
Fly away, do,
Fly to the mountain,
And feed upon dew,
Feed upon dew
And sleep on a rug,
And then run away
Like a good little bug.
The Magic Square
After Lo Shu, the Scroll of the River Lo, an ancient Chinese legend
Download: .pdf
A long time ago, in ancient China, there was a huge flood of the River Lo.
The people tried to offer many sacrifices to the River God, but at no avail.
One day, a turtle with an interesting pattern on its shell emerged from the water.
A curious child noticed that there were three rows and three columns with nine cells on the turtle’s shell, and each cell had a different number of circular dots.
The child added the numbers in each of the three rows, and in each of the three column, and in each of the two diagonals, and the sum was always the same, 15.
Then he thought that this must be the magic number of sacrifices to offer to the River God.
The River God was pleased with his offering, and retreated its waters after that.
E NI ME NI MI NI MO
Chinese Nursery Rhyme
One, two, three, and an old cow’s eye,
When a cow’s eye’s blind she’ll surely die;
A piece of skin and a melon, too,
If you have money
I’ll sell to you;
But if you’re without,
I’ll put you out.
GET UP
The day has come,
I hear the cock;
Get up and dress,
‘Tis six o’clock.
There’s a Cow on the Mountain
Traditional Chinese nursery rhyme
There’s a cow on the mountain, the old saying goes,
On her legs are four feet, on her feet are eight toes.
Her tail is behind on the end of her back,
And her head is in front on the end of her neck.
