Remember the big head son and black cat sheriff?Pursuing childhood reading memory together

Zhejiang News Client reporter Li Jiaohuan

"The Story of Xiangyangyuan" illustration

"Maybe only in my childhood, the book has a profound impact on our lives." The British writer Graham Green, known as the Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote in "The Childhood". Perhaps this is why we always have some memories of childhood.

The books read for childhood are part of the foundation of life. The "Colorful Childhood -China Centennial Children's Book Fair" jointly sponsored by Ningbo Tianyi Pavilion Museum and the National Classics Museum is being launched in the building in Tianyi Pavilion. 156 outstanding children's books vividly interpreted the journey of Chinese children's book creation.

For a century, what are the children read? Who written these readings? What are the new characteristics of modern children's book creation? The summer vacation is here, it is a good time for reading. The reporter walked into Tianyi Pavilion with curiosity and interviewed several children's books writers to find reading passwords about childhood.

Book of children a century ago

On the yellow pages, wonderful stories, bright pictures, and patching together a book incense childhood carrying a generation of memories of generations.

Li Jieying, director of the Exhibition Department of Tianyi Pavilion Museum, told reporters: "The content of this exhibition is over a century. We organize the context of time development. It also includes a variety of themes such as war, popularization, campus, science fiction. "

For example, in the late Qing Dynasty, it was the budding stage of modern Chinese children's reading. Newspapers and series of children's as the objects have begun to appear, and Western children's books have also entered China with translation.

"This" Fairy Tale "is the first large -scale children's literature series in modern Chinese history, which was founded by the Commercial Press." Li Jieying said that it has been published since 1909 for 15 years, with a total of 102 species. This is also the first time in China that has appeared in "fairy tale".

The reporter learned that the first work contained in "Fairy Tale" is called "Catless Country", which tells about the orphans of the orphans to ask the owner to remove their cats. When the owner went to a certain country, the king asked the owner to go to the palace to the banquet. The owner of the ship sent the cats brought to the palace, and the mouse disappeared immediately. The king rewarded the ship owner's golden jewelry. After returning to China, the owner gave these treasures to the big man, and the big man became rich since then.

Although the story of "Catless Country" is simple, the "fairy tale" in my country is preceded. It was actually created by Sun Yuxiu, who worked at the State Education Department of the Business Press at the time, based on Western folk stories "The Fifty Anecdotes of Thai West". "Fairy Tale" is mostly based on foreign literature, such as Greek mythology, "One Thousand and One Nights", etc., and some are based on the legendary Tang people, Song and Yuan dynasties, and Ming and Qing novels. "Li Jieying said. This also reflects the creation of early fairy tales in my country, which is mainly based on imitation and is also affected by other literary genre.

"For example, this" Xin'er Study "is a best -selling book in the early children's books, which is translated by Bao Xiaotian. This book has been mentioned in many celebrities' articles." Li Jieying told reporters. "Xin'er School of Studies" is a children's novel written by modern Italian writer Yamacis. In the form of a diary, the third grade elementary school student Amway Ke has seen what he has seen in school, family, and society. The story of love.

In fact, with the reform of China's new education, people of insight advocated the use of novels "Education Mongolia", and a wave of translation education novels appeared in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. Bao Xiaotian is the most translator in translation education during this period. "Xin'er Study" is the most influence in his translation, and has been reprinted ten times.

In order to allow this work to be accepted by Chinese readers, Bao Xiaotian took the characters and plots in the book as much as possible. For example, a section of "Breaking the Broken Boat", the English translation passes the brave and persistent character through the boy's appearance and expression, and the heroine is an ordinary girl. Bao Xiaotian was translated as a teenager's "warm color as crown jade, beautiful and not like Tian She", and the girl became "dignified and beautiful" "everyone ladylike". He also created a part of the book. This method of translation plus creation is also the product of that specific era.

Children's books also reflect the times. During the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, the creation of modern children's books ushered in a trend of pursuing light and calling for free liberation.

For example, the 14 -year -old sheep baby and the Children's regiment Haiwa in "Furry Letter" covered the sheep as a cover to send a letter to the Eighth Route Army. Unexpectedly, he encountered an enemy on the way. Haiwa hurriedly hid the letter under the tail of the sheep and concealed the enemy soldiers. "Little Hero Rain" has shaped the image of a wit and brave anti -Japanese hero.

After the founding of New China, in the 1970s, children's novels, poetry, and fairy tales all showed distinctive youth, optimism, freshness, and upward era characteristics. During this period, a group of children's books that showed the spirit of heroism. The familiar "Little Soldiers Zhang Ga", "Flash Red Star" and "Liu Hulan", etc., were born at this time.

In the 1980s and 1990s, children's readings opened a diversified era. The first science fiction novel "Flying to the Horse", which appeared in 1979, tells the thrilling legend of the three teenagers who accidentally took the "Oriental" spacecraft by accident, and finally returned to the earth after many years. Of course, there are campus novels such as "Black Cat Sheriff", "365 Night", "Black Cat Sheriff", "365 Night", and campus novels such as "Flower Season and Rainy Season".

Every audience can find their own memories here. At the exhibition site, Xiao Shuang, a post -university girl who was studying at the university, told reporters that her favorite children's book is "Big Head Son and Little Dad", and some stories still feel kind even if they grow up. Li Jieying was impressed by "365 Night": "I still remember that when I was a child, I went to the borrowing room of the Ningbo Children's Library to read the joy of these books in the borrowing room of the Ningbo Children's Library. The children's books in the showcase also awakened my childhood." Everyone

This exhibition also paid tribute to a generation. In fact, Lu Xun, Liang Qichao, Ye Shengtao, Bing Xin, Feng Zikai, Yu Pingbo, etc. all made great contributions to the popularization of children's literature.

Lu Xun shouted "Save Children" in "Madman's Diary" and "How Do We Be a Father Now" and officially put forward the educational concept of "children's standard". "He also translated many foreign masterpieces for children and created works such as" Hometown "and" Social Opera ", which provides valuable reference for children's literature." Li Jieying said.

Confucian Verne is a well -known science fiction novelist in modern France. Many Chinese readers have watched his science fiction novels such as "80 days traveling to the earth", "20,000 miles under the sea" and "Mystery Island", but few people know Liang Qichao Translated his "Fifteen Little Hao Jie", Lu Xun translated his "Moon Travel".

"Moon Travel" describes the members of the member of the McLilan Kingdom Guns Club, and developed a giant cannon under the leadership of President Bargam.

In Lu Xun's introduction of Verne and "Moon Realm Travel": "This book borrows Sanxiong alone, its own organization ... is strange and lonely, especially super vulgar." For the sake of scientific novels. "Lu Xun's original intention to translate this novel is to make up for the only scientific novels of Chinese novels, so that" intellectual absurdity "occurred.

In addition, Zhou Zuoren also published a large number of literary works, theories and translations about children. His translated works include "Isso Fables" and "Greek Mythology". In 1919, Zhou Zuoren translated "The Daughter of Match" into verbal words and published it in "New Youth". This is also the first time Andersen's fairy tales have been introduced to distant China.

Of course, when it comes to the pioneers created by modern fairy tales in China, Ye Shengtao cannot be opened. He gave students a lecture, and often told small stories and fairy tales. Students love to listen. The fairy tale "Scarecrow" was published in 1923 and recorded 23 short -story fairy tales created by Ye Shengtao. Ye Shengtao is particularly good at digging the material of fairy tales from his life. Carpenter, beggar, fisherman, farmer, stream, frog, etc., all glows in his pen and have unique charm.

For example, the article "Scarecrow", through the thoughts of a compassionate and incompetent scarecrow, truly described the world of rural areas in China in the 1920s, laying a realistic direction of modern children's literature. Essence As the first original fairy tales in modern China, Lu Xun commented on it "to open a path for Chinese fairy tales." These works written in the period of vernacular, no obscure, have undoubtedly established a national model.

Children's reading is always inseparable from the picture shape. "Yi" is the first new collection of poems described by the Red Scholar Yu Pingbo, which describes children's life. The book receives 36 poems. The unique collection of this poem lies in Yu Pingbo's brush, Zhu Ziqing, and Feng Zikai's comic illustrations.

There are eighteen colored ink illustrations made by Feng Zikai in the book. It is the early paintings of Feng Zikai, which is relatively rare, and also shows the fun and innocence in his creation. Even Zhou Zuoren also praised "the binding of this collection of poems is very good". Like this small poem collection. "

The change of contemporary children's books

Times are changing with each day. The 21st century is the period when Chinese children's book creation and publication have risen rapidly, and the rapid integration of the international children's book industry is integrated into the mainstream of the international children's book industry. At present, children's reading materials have become one of the fastest publishing categories in the number of publishing circles, varieties and quality.

The creation of Zhejiang Children's publication also shows a prosperous scene. Here I have to mention Zhejiang Children's Publishing House. As a leader in the field of children's publishing, Zhejiang Children's Publishing House has created many well -known brand books. For example, "China's First Children's Best Selling Book" "Adventure Little Tiger" series, "Animal Novel King Shen Shixi Pin Collection Department", "Naughty Bao Ma Small Jump" series, "Charlie 9" series, let countless young readers across the country sprayed. road.

In fact, high -quality creation is always the foundation of best -selling. So in the new century, with the prosperous children's readings market, what is the situation of children's book creation? What should we pay attention to in contemporary children's book creation?

Shen Shixi is a famous contemporary animal novel writer in China. He created classic animal novels such as "The Dream of Wolf King", "Banling Flying" and "Seventh Hunter", and is known as the "Chinese Animal Novel King". The reporter's home has still kept books such as "Mixed King" and "Snow Rabbit" that I bought many years ago.

"I have liked writing since I was a child, and I like to use writing to convey my views and perceptions of life." Shen Shixi told reporters that as an animal novel writer, what he wants to convey in his work most is that animals also have emotions and spirituality. We should respect the creatures of these nature. "Of course, in order to improve the readability, there will be a clear theme in my book, which comes from the most authentic feeling of life." Shen Shixi said. In Shen Shixi, the creation of children's literature should pay more attention to the truth. "Children aged teenagers are actually in a transitional stage to peek into the world of adults." Shen Shixi said that we should not filter out complex and true, but to help children better understand and cross cross Enter the adult world.

So in Shen Shixi's work, the author himself always appeared in a real, even a bit of fragile image. In "Against the Fox", he is a thin, pale face, and a little selfish person; in "Dog of Disaster", he is a master who abandoned the hound in a very cruel way, and even a small reader in person in person in person in person He charged him with tears, "This owner is too bad" ... But it is this non -light narrative method that has won the hearts of thousands of readers.

"I hope that the current children can first read it according to their own interests, and then turn to a more advanced reading on this basis." Shen Shixi said, "The books read in my childhood are like farmers who pour the first when farmers grow fruit seedlings on the mountains. Only when the roots of the roots ", only by letting the reading brings a steady stream of interest, can the child be firmly pierced in the soil of culture and benefit for life."

Before and after this year's World Book Day, the original picture book "Sun and 蜉蝣" published by Zhejiang Children's Publishing House won the 17th Wenjin Book Award. The author Tang Tang also believes that children need to read deep and thoughtful works. These literary works will inspire their wisdom, light up their hearts, promote them to think about life and the world, and help them slowly become people who can think, depth, and connotative.

"In fairy tales, I will try to explore some philosophical propositions. At the same time, I try my best to present a deep and broad theme with a charming story. People read it with interest. "Tang Tang told reporters.

Tang Tang cherishes inspiration. Her conception time always grows as long as possible, so that the story embryo slowly takes root. The biggest motivation for creation is to make the children's eyes brighten, and their hearts are moved, brightened, warm, and even deeply shocked.

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