Table of Contents:
Section 1: Ye Shengtao's Fairy Tale Creation
Session 2: Bing Xin and "Sending a Little Reader"
Section 3: Yu Pingbo's Children's Poetry Collection "Remembrance"
Section 4: Children's novels such as Wang Tongzhao
Session 5: Children's dramas such as Lai Kam-fai
Ye Shengtao's fairy tale creation
Representative works: Fairy tale collection "Scarecrow", "Stone Statue of Ancient Heroes", "Four Or Three Episodes"
Zheng Zhenduo commented on "The Scarecrow" - in terms of description, almost none of the works in the whole collection are not successful.
Achievements: Ye Shengtao's fairy tale is a masterpiece of both content and form, and a sign of the maturity of Chinese art fairy tales.
Ye Shengtao fairy tale art features:
1. Face life directly, expand the theme, and introduce the real world into the field of fairy tale creation (ideological content)
The process of change: early days - weaving children's dreams, colorful, full of fantasy, idealistic
Later stage - from the dream to the real world, the real life of blood and tears is revealed in front of the child
A Work of Thought Transformation: "The Carp in Distress"
2. Focus on children, pay attention to children's tastes, and constantly explore and improve the art form of fairy tale creation (art form)
Writers and artists who create children's literature and art naturally focus on children and give them exquisite nutritional materials - Ye Shengtao
The artistic characteristics of fairy tales: poetic fantasy, poetic mood, exaggeration of expression and logic of events
3. Distinct and strong Chinese style and Chinese style (national style)
Reasons: (1) The theme of fairy tales comes from the real life of China, and the theme is excavated from the national soil
(2) The living environment and local scenery, ethnic customs, seasonal order, moral concepts, ethnic construction, costumes and diets and other landscape paintings and custom paintings described in fairy tales are completely "Chinese-style".
Lu Xun highly praised Ye Shengtao's "Scarecrow", which opened a way for Chinese fairy tales to create their own.
Starting from Ye Shengtao's "Scarecrow", China has a standard art fairy tale created by writers.
Bing Xin and "Send a Little Reader"
Bingxin: Opening up a new world of children's prose creation with "Sending a Small Reader", marking the rise and miraculous maturity of children's prose in China
Contents of "Send a Little Reader":
1. Praise for the child's heart
2. Praise of maternal love
3. Singing about nature
4. Deep nostalgia for the motherland
The tone of thought: the philosophy of love
Artistic charm: fresh and beautiful writing, gentle and kind mood, picturesque mood, beautiful and vivid language
Yu Pingbo's children's poetry collection "Remembrance"
"Remembrance": Reminiscences of childhood poems, a total of 36 poems, illustrated by Feng Zikai, written by Zhu Ziqing, is the first new collection of poems in China to describe children's lives
Poetry features:
1. Innocent children's interest, vivid and delicate childlike portrayal
2. Beautiful mood and soft style
3, simple and natural, overflowing with emotions
Poetry is informal, does not pay attention to grammar and rhyme, does not sculpt words, and is completely "casual, lively" and allows the verses to flow from the heart
Wang Tongzhao and other children's novels
The characteristics of children's novel creation before and after the "May Fourth" period: to reflect the unfortunate life of the younger generation to open up the theme, from the small events to reveal the shadow of the times.
Wang Tongzhao's representative works: "After the Snow", "Lakeside Children's Song"
Children's dramas such as Lai Kam Fai
Zheng Zhenduo: Children's Poetry Drama "Song of the Wind"
Ye Shengtao: Children's Opera "Wind and Waves", "Bees"
Gu Zhongyi: The one-act children's drama "Preaching" and "Hard Work" reflect the children's school life as the content, although the plot is simple, but the structure is clever, full of humor, full of drama.
Zhao Jingshen: Adaptation of "Swan Opera"
Zhou Zuoren: Compiled 6 fairy tale dramas such as "Rat Meeting" and "Country Rats and City Rats"
Li Jinhui: Musician, China's first children's song and dance writer
Representative works: 12 children's song and dance dramas, "Sparrow and Child", "Grape Fairy", "Moon night", "Three Butterflies", "Happy Spring", "Seven Sisters Touring the Garden", "Fairy Sister", "Lamb Saves Mother", "Death of Little Lida", "Mother", "Apple Wakes Up", "Little Painter"
Artistic features of Lai Kam Fai Song and Dance Drama:
1. Take "the education of love and the pursuit of beauty" as the basic ideological content
2. Pay attention to romantic passion, but not good at dissecting life with straight pen, mainly using brushstrokes dipped in ideal colors to express its call for a better future and dissatisfaction with the dark reality
3. Clear upward ideological tone, full of poetic fantasy, with a fairy tale-like beautiful and evocative mood