| As an important artistic painting,"children’s play" is often used to describe the paintings with children as the protagonist,and it is also an important artistic symbol in the painting history of the Song Dynasty.However,the images of children depicted in these figure paintings are not confined to simple games and entertainment behaviors,but through children’s colorful social activities to enrich their image expression.In this paper,the Song Dynasty,children’s play as the entry point,based on the perspective of music history,Song Dynasty booming civic culture as the background of discussion,the active children’s activities to explore.This paper analyzes and defines the "children’s play" from the perspective of music history,combines music history with music image science,studies the method of literature analysis and image historical data as auxiliary evidence,and makes the image of "children’s play" in Song Dynasty,an artistic symbol,fuller and deeper in the perspective of music history.This paper is divided into five chapters.The first chapter mainly defines and summarizes the complex concept and historical development of "children’s play".The second,third and fourth chapters are discussed from the representative artistic creation angles which are closely related to children’s play activities.Among them,the second chapter demonstrates the children’s play and puppet play in the Song Dynasty,summarizes the changes of the children in the role types,occasions of use,the identity of the performer and so on,and analyzes the reasons for the appearance of the children’s images in the puppet play in the Song Dynasty.The third chapter discusses children’s play and the qu tunes of [Shua Hai er] in Song Dynasty,and analyzes the literature text and actual use of "children’s play","Mahoraga" and "Shua Hai er".In combination with the formation logic of the qu tunes of [Huo lang er] in Song Dynasty,the origin of the qu tunes of [Shua Hai er] is researched.The fourth chapter discusses the children’s play and children’s music education in Song Dynasty,mainly from the two perspectives of palace music and folk music,combined with the flow of musicians under the employment system,the characteristics and differences of folk music education for children,as well as traditional rituals and folk music matters and other factors,the characteristics and functions of the children’s play activities in Song Dynasty music education are summarized in detail.Chapter five analyzes the overall characteristics of the children’s play in Song Dynasty and the reasons for its prevalence,and discusses the reaction of the rise of the children’s play to children’s musical activities in Song Dynasty. |