Children's literature: Write about common human emotions

I have visited the farmhouse several times, and found that the children's favorite reading is Robinson Crusoe and Ordinary World. Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by Defoe in the 18th century, while Ordinary World is not children's literature. Why can these two works transcend time and space and touch the hearts of children today? The reason may be that both works contain indomitable fighting spirit and courage to meet the hardships of life, which is consistent with the desire of rural children, especially left-behind children, to go out into the world and look forward to the future. This shows that the penetrating power, foresight and future of classic works comes from the profound insight into the common emotions of human beings. Reviewing the 20 years of literature in the new century, the achievements of Chinese original children's literature are obvious to all. Should we also ask whether the works that touched children touched readers around the world, future readers and adults alike? In other words, whether the universal human emotion can be deeply expressed is not only an effective standard to test the artistic level of children's literature, but also an effective path for children's literature to achieve higher achievements. Writing "Chinese-style childhood", we cannot write "Chinese-style childhood" without a vision of the world ", provides abundant spiritual resources for the original Chinese children's literature in the new century, countless writers have explored in the treasure house of Chinese childhood experience, and obtained inexhaustible writing resources. Maybe no time to like a new era of children's literature in such a vast territory in racing: from the west to the east, from the plateau, the desert, to the grassland, the sea, and from rural to urban, different ethnic groups living environment of the children, nearly all their growth story into the writer's view, and was not written down. Today, we say that a "global" perspective should be added to the "Chinese style". On the one hand, we mean that we should be able to illuminate the common spiritual problems faced by mankind based on The writing of Chinese experience. On the other hand, the writer must have a broad vision based on extensive reading, and be aware of masterpieces on the same subject from around the world. For example, as for the eternal literary motif of "death", there may be no need to have too many taboos in adult literature, but there must be something to write or not to write in children's literature writing. How to choose? The degree of difficulty is relatively high, but there are also popular foreign children's literature such as "Matty and Grandpa" and "The Other side of the Sky Blue" to learn from. Recently published "children's Psychological warfare epidemic big eyes warm heart picture book series" also made positive exploration in this respect. This series of works by young writers, including Zhang Xiaoling, not only bravely face the challenges brought by COVID-19, but also use flexible narrative strategies from the perspective of children to achieve the artistic effect of "growing into light". This set of picture books has exported various foreign language editions and reached overseas young readers, showing the great potential and possible path for China's original children's literature to connect with the world's children's literature. Based on "children standard", the reform of "holistic" vision of children's view can not be neglected, so that the creation of original children's literature in the new century has gained a new impetus. The advocation of "children's standard", affirmation of children's subjectivity and publicity of the spirit of childhood play are the characteristics of Chinese original children's literature in the new century, which are different from other periods. In particular, some children's novels on campus with huge circulation and childhood memories of popular writers are characterized by naughtiness, humor, wit, lightness and sweetness. They were enthusiastically echoed by readers, which in turn reinforced the rigidity of this aesthetic pursuit and attracted more writers to follow it. In order to make this kind of creation go deeper and further, it is necessary to explore and think more deeply about "child-nature", which requires a certain "holistic" vision. First, when understanding and grasping the characteristic of child spirit world, depict child image, should avoid one-sided. We often say that children are born philosophers. When we emphasize "child-nature", we are not trying to simplify the richness of children's spiritual world, but to show the simple, happy and carefree side of it, while ignoring the difficulties, perplexities and dilemmas encountered in growth. Second, children are not isolated, they grow up in close interaction with family, society and the adult world. Are children capable of perceiving richer information from society than they are communicating with each other? The answer is yes. Children reflect the colorful light and shadow of The Times, and they also have the ability to feel the wind and rain of life in their own unique way. This point can be fully felt in the classic works such as "Emile The Naughty", "Nikolai the Naughty" and "South of the City", "Little Bean by the window". The emphasis on "holistic" vision does not mean that the way of thinking of adults is imposed on children, so that children's literature will be "adult". Always look at the world with children's eyes, is the most reliable foothold of children's literature. The purpose of emphasizing the "holistic" vision is to arouse the thinking of the creators of children's literature: how to deal with the relationship between children's literature and the major propositions of The Times? Finding the intersection between the events and the child's individual development is the key to writing this kind of work. "Dawa on the Snow Mountain" by Qiushan Shan is written from the perspective of a dog about the lives of soldiers in the snow mountain sentry post on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which enhances the interest of the story and narrates the distance between the children and the distant military life. In LETTERS to the Moon by US author Laurel Breitz-Lagusti, a young girl chooses to write to astronaut Collins rather than Armstrong because she feels his "loneliness". It is this universal human emotion that makes the momentous event of the moon landing strangely connected to the reality and inner world of a little girl. In addition to the positive assault of documentary reality, children's literature is involved in the major realistic themes from various angles, looking for emotional resonance is one of the methods. Rooted in the present reality, we cannot ignore the vision of gazing into the future. The current children's literature creation has the largest number of realistic themes. The writers of children's literature should make intensive efforts in the creation of realistic themes, and at the same time keep climbing the peak of art, they should also open up their infinite possibilities to the future. We not only look forward to the emergence of well-known children's science fiction works like PHS Roaming the Future, but also see that some foreign children's literature, which is not science fiction, also contains quite a lot of scientific content, and can even be said to be the cross-border integration of growth literature and popular science works. This kind of writing compatible with various creative elements is rare in the original local children's literature. Children's literature should not be absent from the imagination of the future way of human existence, especially the prospect of science and technology, ecology and other major themes that have a fundamental impact on human destiny. The rapid development of science and technology has penetrated into People's Daily life, and children are no exception. What is the relationship between technology and children's spiritual development? In particular, how will the rise of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, affect children's futures? All these can become the object of concern in children's literature creation. The incorporation of science into the text is not only an inheritance of the knowledge tradition of literature, but also echoes the general curiosity and thirst for knowledge of human beings in the face of the unknown world. It is also due to the rhythm of human emotions, which cannot be separated from the infiltration and projection of science and technology. In addition to science and technology, the relationship between human beings and nature and wild animals is also an unavoidable topic in children's literature creation. Happily, our children's writers have begun to think quietly about this. Black Crane's "Six Seasons of Reindeer" is to place the key moment of a boy's growth in the deep mountains and dense forests of the Great Khingan Mountains where Ewenki people live, and to present the relationship between human's emotional growth and nature in detail and accurately through microscopic words. These explorations may not be a literary phenomenon due to the insufficient sample size, but they also provide more possibilities for children's literature to explore the universal emotions of human beings.