Chinese Children’s Songs that We Absolutely Love at Our Home!
Singing is an easy and happy way to learn a language. Many of the songs below contain interesting stories in them. I am also in the process of adding artwork, lyrics, activity suggestios etc to accompany the songs. This way, your child will get more language experience with singing each song.
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Free printable coloring pages for that song
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video of children singing the song
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mandarin lyrics with English translations
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download the mp3 song to your CD or computer
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Please do leave a comment. I love hearing from visitors on my website!
Index of Chinese Children’s Songs
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Songs about Body Parts
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Celebration Songs
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Songs about Family and Home
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At the Farm
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Songs about Friendship
- Funny songs
- Songs about Seasons
- Popular Children’s Songs in Mandarin
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Songs about Virtues
- Songs about Traveling and Mode of Transportation
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Jzin’s Personal Favorites:
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Chinese New Year Song for Ms. Grace Yeh’s First Graders 2012
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Selected Songs for My Kindergartener 2010
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Selected Songs for My First Grader 2011
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Selected Songs for my Second Grader 2012
Also see…
- Popular Chinese songs
- Non Chinese Songs I love
Songs about Animals
Common or spectacled caiman & South American false coral snake by Maria Sibylla Merian. The Royal Collection, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
- An Ant moving a Bean 螞蟻搬豆
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Big Dragon Shrimps
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Bunny Dance
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Butterfly 蝴蝶
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Camel 駱駝
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Catching Mudfish 捉泥鰍
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Cicada
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Country Mouse
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Dragonfly 蜻蜓
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Elephant (pending)
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Fireflies 螢火蟲
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Frog
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Frog Jumps into the Water
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The Hen Who Sits on a Duck Egg
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Happy Little Fish
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Lazy Cat
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Lazy Worm
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Little Bee 小蜜蜂
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Little Bird
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Little Crow 小烏鴉
- Little Ducklings 小鸭子
- Little Frog
- Little Goldfish
- Little Hen 小母雞
- Little Flower Cat 小花猫
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Little Goat 小羊兒
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Little Oriole
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Little Goat Wants To Go Home
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Little Praying Mantis 小螳螂
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Little Snail
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Mother Hen Sitting on Duck Eggs
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The Mouse Moving An Egg
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Old Crow
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Old Mother Hen
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Our Rooster is Missing 我们的公鸡不见了
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Old Swallow and Young Swallow
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Pekinese Puppy 哈巴狗
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Tiger Hunting in the Mountains 上山打老虎
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Turkey in the Straw (USA) 稻草裏的火雞
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Two Tigers 兩隻老虎
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Swallow
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The Village Mouse 鄉下老鼠
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Ugly Duckling 醜小鴨 chou xiao ya
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The Wild Bunny is Hungry
Songs about Family and Home
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Good mother 媽媽好
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Grandma’s Penghu Bay 外婆的澎湖灣
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Growing Up 只要我長大
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Home 家
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Home Sweet Home 甜密的家庭
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Little Sister carrying her dolly 妹妹背著洋娃娃
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Little Dolly’s Song 娃娃的故事
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Mama’s Eyes 媽媽的眼睛
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My Home 我的家
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My Home is Over There 我家在那裡
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This is My Home
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Wa Ha Ha 娃哈哈
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When I was just a baby
Lullabies
Folk songs
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Fengyang Flower Drum 鳳陽花鼓
- Gaoshan Qing. The high mountain is green
- The Green Green Sea
- Green Boat among Silver Waves. (Land of the Silver Birch)
- In That Faraway Place
- Little Sister Rainbow 紅彩妹妹
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Lift your Headdress 掀起你的蓋頭來
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Thai Hu Boat
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The Mongolian Shepherd’s Song
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Song of Youth 青春舞曲
At the Farm
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Mother Hen Sitting on Duck Eggs
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Pulling A Turnip 拔蘿蔔
Songs about Nature, Plants
Songs about being in nature, about nature, plants
- Azalea Dujuan Hua 杜鵑花. 5 year old Nunu’s first public performance ever!
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Bamboo Leaf Boat 竹葉船
- Farewell, O Meadows 再會吧原野
- Flowing River
- Gaoshan Qing. The high mountain is green
- Grandmother moon
- Hiking
- Little Rain Drop
- Jasmine Flower Molihua 茉莉花
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Morning Glory 牽牛花
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Old Pine Tree 老松樹
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Olive Tree 橄欖樹
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Orchid Grass 蘭花草
- Papaya song 木瓜歌
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Plum Blossom 梅花
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Red Berries 红莓果
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Rowan Berry Tree 山犁树
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The White Poplar Tree (Bai Yang Shu) 白楊樹
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The Wind is Coming
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Words of the West Wind 西風的話
Songs about Body Parts
- Big Head, Big Head 大头大头
- Mama’s Eyes 媽媽的眼睛
Songs about Friendship
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Come Dance, My friends who love to dance 愛跳舞的朋友快來跳
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Everyone Let’s Laugh Together
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Greeting Song 問侯歌
- Good Friends
- It’s a Small, Small World 世界小小小
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Please and Thank You
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The More We Get Together 當我們同在一起
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The Parting 送别
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Where are My Friends? 我的朋友在哪裡
Songs about Toys, Games and Childhood Pastimes
- A Game
- Bamboo Leaf Boat 竹葉船
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Clay Dolly 泥娃娃
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Come Dance, My friends who love to dance 愛跳舞的朋友快來跳
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Guessing Game (Rock, paper, scissors) 猜拳
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Go, Train, Quickly 火車快飛
- Little Robot 小小機器人
- Little Dolly’s Song 娃娃的故事
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Who is he? (A riddle) 他是誰? ta shi shei?
Stories in Song
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The Shepherd Boy. A song about the shepherd who learns about the price of lying.
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Shuwu shepherding
Songs about Virtues
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The Shepherd Boy. A song about the shepherd who learns about the price of lying.
Songs about Traveling and Mode of Transportation
The Return of Ulysses by Giorgio de Chirico
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Airplane
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Alukala Dragoon Brigade 阿魯卡拉龍騎兵
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Ballad of the Great Wall
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Boat on Lake Tai. 太湖船 Taihu chuan.
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Go, Train, Quickly 火車快飛
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Hiking
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It’s a Small, Small World 世界小小小
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Land of the Silver Birch, or Green Boat among Silver Waves 銀波緑舟
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Little Song of Taiwan
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Rowing, Rowing (to Grandmother’s Bridge)
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Searching for Plum Blossoms in the Snow 踏雪尋梅
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Train, Go Quickly
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Trishaw/ Strange or Not 三輪車 / 奇怪不奇怪
Funny Songs
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Big Head, Big Head 大头大头
Chinese Nursery Rhymes
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Big Head, Big Head 大头大头
Celebration Songs
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Click here for Chinese New Year songs
Songs of Chinese New Year
Songs about Seasons
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Winter Old Man
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Searching for Plum Blossoms in the Snow
Songs about Work and Occupations
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Building a House
- Fishermen’s family
- Fisherman’s Song捕鱼歌
Songs from Other Cultures
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It’s a Small, Small World 世界小小小
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Jingle Bells/Santa Claus. (USA) 聖誕老人
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Rowan Berry Tree (Russia) 山犁树
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Land of the Silver Birch, or Green Boat among Silver Waves 銀波緑舟 (Canada)
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London Bridge (England) 倫敦鐵橋
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Ten Little Indian Children (Originally: Ten Little Indian Boys) 十個印地安小朋友
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The Moldau. Also “My fatherland” 我的祖国. Words set to Smetana’s music
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The More We Get Together 當我們同在一起
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Turkey in the Straw (USA) 稻草裏的火雞
Poetry from Tang Dynasty
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very cute , thanks for listing the songs . I can show them to my friend who is from China .