Cover news reporter Zeng Jie intern Zhu Yifan
"Reading for all is not only a requirement for children, it is also very urgent for parents." On April 22, on the occasion of World Book Day, Li Muyu, a national first-class writer, a famous children's literature writer and a school reading promoter, mentioned reading for all, and the first point given was that parents should enjoy the fun of reading with their children.
As a children's literature writer, Li Muyu has created more than 50 kinds of children's novels such as "White Horse Kexin Starry Sky", "Great Panda Baby", "Campus Tree Spirit" series, "Invincible Twins" series, etc.; as a child's mother, she not only pays close attention to her daughter's learning and growth in daily life, but also meets a large number of young readers in her creation, and pays attention to their reading habits through QQ and WeChat.
In the Internet era, there are video bishops you can read a world famous book in three minutes, there are e-commerce platforms to release monthly bestseller lists, and "if you don't have time to read, it is recommended that you pay attention to these public accounts" copywriting to attract you to stop. How should we abandon fragmented reading, withdraw from wasted time, and read and think effectively? In Li Muyu's view, trying to put down the mobile phone and return to paper reading is a good choice.
▲ Writer Li Muyu
Shut down the experiment
Make reading more focused
When the way to obtain information becomes complicated and chaotic, if the information is too much or too fragmented, more than the amount of the brain, followed by the double exhaustion of the body and mind, people naturally can not effectively identify and think.
There was a time when Li Muyu would also panic in the vast sea of news, and she was surprised to find that her thinking and concentration had deteriorated. Especially when creating, being disturbed by the transactional work of the mobile phone, or unconsciously developing the habit of brushing the mobile phone, makes her a little helpless. The phone was like a black hole, devouring her time and critical thinking.
So, last week, she did an interesting experiment, and before she got into the creative state at night, she voluntarily turned off her phone, gained unprecedented concentration, and the writing became smooth. She popularized this method to the reading time, the fingertips touch the smoothness of the pages, the rhythm of the words as far as the eye can see, and the faint ink fragrance, thinking and immersing in the book, thinking and learning.
"Getting effective information and thinking intently is learning." Li Muyu said. Previously, she had tried to use the fragmented time to listen to the book, but after listening to the whole book, she found that she had less than one-tenth of the information intake, could remember the author and the title, and understood the synopsis of the story, but neither enjoyed the beauty of the text, nor could she resonate with the author's thoughts, and what she gained was a short pleasure, and this "pleasant reading" was not "reading".
Whether it is the public account that you pay attention to teach you to disassemble a good book in a short time, or open the listening software to enjoy "stealing half a day's leisure", it is not as in-depth as paper reading. She reminds people who love to learn: "Cherish precious time and return to paper reading." ”
▲ "Who Says Nettle Doesn't Talk"
Read the classics
Choose a book with difficulty
"I have always believed that a child who only becomes a child who becomes a textbook cannot become a great writer or a leader in other fields, and children need to gain more knowledge from other ways, until they go to the vast world and get more experience, which is the mystery of the ancients' 'reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles'."
Before the interview, Li Muyu was reading "Masters of Mathematics: From Zeno to Poincaré". In this classic book on the history of mathematics and the art of mathematics, she was deeply impressed by the famous quote of a mathematician: "If one wants to achieve something in mathematics, do not learn from ordinary people, but learn from the master at the beginning." The same applies to reading.
In the past, many parents prepared a list of books for their children, which was a kind of "wide net" concept, blindly emphasizing "opening the book is beneficial", not knowing that the quality of books is uneven, reading some books without nutrition, the sunk cost is also very high.
In Li Muyu's view, the process of parents educating their children is also a growth for themselves, before opening a list of books for children, parents should take a cursory look through, choose a list of books suitable for them for children with ideas, especially should choose some difficult books, so that children can get the tempering of thinking in the challenge.
She remembers the funny things about reading "Five Thousand Years Up and Down" when she was a child, and may not have read major historical events and important historical figures at that time, but those classic texts have been left behind, which has had a profound impact on her later writing. She often suggests to young readers that they should read more classics like "Dream of the Red Chamber", perhaps they feel confused at first reading, and after reading it several times and reading through it, they can get the pleasure of "seeing the mountains and small mountains".
▲ "Tired Olive Branch"
Recommend good books
Taste Shakespeare, focus on plants
A thousand viewers have a thousand Hamlets in their eyes, and a thousand Shakespearean classics in the hearts of a thousand readers. On the eve of World Book Day, Li Muyu suggested that children take the time to read Shakespeare's works, whether it is the vibrant comedy created by Shaun when he was young, or the tragedy of criticizing the darkness of society created in middle age, and the many works of deep thinking about human nature and fate created after old age, as a masterpiece of the European Renaissance, Shakespeare can always bring readers great surprises and major gains.
"I hope that children will have a tough bone in the process of growing up, that is, the ability to independently think critically about thought and art, and know what happiness, freedom, equality, and sublimeness are." Shakespeare's works contain beauty and goodness, and those characters and dialogues are already eternal classics of mankind, and their value in literature, thought, and poetry is incomparable. She laughed and said that after reading Shakespeare's classics, if children can also get involved in the plays, musicals, and movies derived from his works, it is also a kind of cross-border reading, and it will definitely gain a lot.
In her view, whether it is reading classics or being close to nature, it can make a child's heart become rich. Especially in the first two years, she began to learn to raise flowers and grass in her spare time, not only remembering the flowering period of each flower opening, understanding the frequency of fertilization of each tree, but also began to truly understand the change of the four seasons, how people should get along with nature, and how to find their own position in the vast nature, which is a rare luxury for modern people.
Based on these feelings, she is about to publish a new set of books "Li Muyu Children's Plant Companion Novel", in order to expand the children's psychological space and living space, let the children understand the world outside the books, learn to dialogue with a flower and a tree, and realize an aesthetic pursuit that makes life more complete.
The set consists of four volumes. The protagonist is an elven prince from the elven kingdom named Xu Lulu, who was born in the human world and has the superpower of dialogue with animals and plants, and in real life, he is an ordinary fourth-grade boy, no different from ordinary children. In the book, he has many wonderful and moving stories with various plants such as roses, olive branches, and poplar trees. This set of books is a combination of fairy tales and campus literature, and it has a magical color and popular science nature. This set of books will officially meet with children before June 1st. She hopes that after the new writing, more children will be willing to wait for a flower to bloom, and while accompanying the growth of plants, they can obtain spiritual satisfaction and vision, and become a complete and true person.
▲ "Mama's Rose Road"