“Snail, snail, its antennas come out of its shell before its head....”

“A little kid sits on the threshold crying for a wife...."

Familiar old Beijing nursery rhymes allowed those present, old and young alike, to experience the magical world of “Lord Rabbit” (as a representative local folk toy, “Lord Rabbit” has almost become a symbol of old Beijing culture).

On June 2, the realistic children’s play “Beijing Nursery Rhymes” raised the curtain especially for Kaiwen Academy (KWA) students at the Beijing Nationality Cultural Palace Theater. More than 200 families watched this original play that Beijing Children’s Art Theatre Co. Ltd. has produced.

Liu Hafu (sounds like “Harvard”), the young protagonist of the play, is one of the “kids of other families” (alluding to an interesting phenomenon that people tend to believe kids of other families are always better than their own). While his excellence makes him the envy of everyone else, Liu Hafu has prematurely had to bear the yoke of strict demands from his parents. The grandmother in the play, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, can only remember the old Beijing nursery rhymes that she has heard as a child.