What is Spring Festival? Why should I post the Spring Festival and wear new clothes? Hanging lanterns, setting off firecrackers, eating dumplings... How did these New Year customs come about? As the Spring Festival approaches, you may wish to choose some original Chinese picture books with a "New Year's flavor" for parent-child reading, so that children can understand traditional Chinese customs and feel the traditional festival atmosphere.
"Taste of the Year"
The author of the book "Nian Wei'er" is Bao Dongni, the winner of the "National Excellent Children's Book Award" and the "Bingxin Children's Book Award". What makes children most worried about the Spring Festival is delicious, fun and good-looking. The book depicts the lively scenes of children making food with adults from all households before and after the Spring Festival, trying on new clothes, pasting Spring Festival, setting off firecrackers, etc., showing the folk customs of the south, the north and the south of the world, the Chinese to welcome the New Year, evoking the "New Year's Taste" in the memories of thousands of Chinese, and also allowing the current children to feel the unique festival culture and Chinese flavor of the Spring Festival from the lively Annual customs.
"Busy Chinese New Year's Eve"
"Chinese New Year's Eve on this day, our whole family is busy and busy. Busy cooking Chinese New Year's Eve rice, steaming cakes, cleaning, buying New Year goods, pasting spring festivals... The adults were busy coming in and out, and my brother and I were busy playing all day! "Busy Chinese New Year's Eve" with children enthusiastically participating in the festival, but the more helpful the more the funny experience, with sometimes rhyming words, the three generations of busy preparations for the New Year are depicted with affection, as if the New Year fragments in your family are intimate and familiar. Among them, the delicately buried Chinese New Year's Eve rice, flowers, candies, etc., in addition to the New Year, contain the auspicious words of the festive season - "eat sweet, good New Year", "eat fish every year", "eat vegetable heads, good color heads" - let children feel the blessings of cultural inheritance in mutual congratulations and warm reunions, and also store a full taste of New Year happiness.
Year Fighting Beast
This book helps children understand the origin of "year". Why do you want to paste the couplet Fu zi for the New Year? Why set off firecrackers? Why wear new red clothes for the New Year? Why do we have to say goodbye to each other in the New Year? You'll find out in the book. Many stories about the New Year and the Fighting Beast have been handed down from all over the world. Liu Jialu's "Fighting Nian Beast" is very wise: there are monsters but not terrible, and there are fights but full of love and joy. In addition, the extraordinary performance of Igor Onikov, a cartographer from Moscow, vividly uses Chinese elements such as red, and the painting style is full of Chinese charm.
Reunion
"Reunion", which won the Feng Zikai Children's Picture Award, describes the strangeness of seeing her father return home for the New Year from the beginning, gradually regaining the intimacy with her father after getting along, and finally the loneliness and reluctance of her father will leave again at the end of the holiday. This book integrates traditional culture, the connotation of modern life and children's psychological feelings. Children can feel the warmth of the family in reading, find resonance, and have a deeper understanding of "reunion".
"Spring Festival in Beijing"
"Eating eight garlic on the eighth day of the first lunar month, worshiping the king of the stove on the twenty-third day of the waxing moon, eating a reunion dinner Chinese New Year's Eve, visiting the temple fair on the first day of the New Year, and making a Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month... The busyness of adults, the liveliness of children, whether it is the streets and alleys or people's faces are full of festive and peaceful reunion atmosphere. "Spring Festival in Beijing" is selected from Lao She's prose masterpiece, the painter Yu Dawu with the brushwork of Chinese painting, put the characters of a family of several families into it, from their perspective to see the folk customs of old Beijing, using the language of picture books to illustrate the narrative, art restores Mr. Lao She's old Beijing, calling for the collective memory of the "Spring Festival" in the hearts of Chinese.
"Stove King"
This book is the work of the international Hans Christian Andersen Prize-nominated painter Xiong Liang. Xiong Liang's works combine tradition and modernity, reflecting a strong local Chinese cultural characteristics, and the style of the book is the same. This book is about the unserious Stove King, always smiling, witty and humorous, and children like it.
"Back home for the New Year"
The story of "Returning to The Hometown for the New Year" starts from the beginning of a family of three returning to their hometown for the New Year, to the end of the Spring Festival holiday, through the warm interaction of the three generations of grandchildren, bringing out the development and changes in all aspects of people's food, clothing, housing and travel. The New Year is a concentrated embodiment of China's great changes, whether it is in the north and south of the great river or inside and outside the Great Wall, you can feel this change through the New Year's stories of one family after another: changes in the table, changes in food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, changes in concepts...
"Lifting the Lantern"
Through this book, children can learn about the custom of "lantern playing". Playing lanterns is a custom of the fifteenth day of the middle month in Wugong County, Shaanxi Province, and the author borrows a little girl to pick up the lantern from expectation, to lighting, burning, extinguishing, and then renewing the warm depiction of expectation, expressing a reluctance to gradually lose the tradition, a faint parting nostalgia and a slow growth in hope. The painter of this book is Zhu Chengliang, the winner of the Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustration Award, there are snow, villages, lanterns, and children in the paintings, and the children's fun flows in the picture, and the taste of the year flashes in the lantern.
"A Different Spring Festival"
The book takes an ordinary family as the starting point, revolves around the little protagonist's question of "why can't I go out to play", and describes the extraordinary Spring Festival scene in 2020 Chinese under the sudden attack of the new crown pneumonia. This book is both intellectual and humanistic, and the basic knowledge of what the new coronavirus is, how to spread, how to protect it runs through the story, and the family, friendship and human true feelings are permeated in a light and elegant water color tone, which stirs the heart. The tone of the story is gentle and powerful, highlighting the worldly feat of cohesion of Chinese the people in the face of disasters and the cohesion of the people and fighting the epidemic together, and also allows young readers and big readers to cherish the beauty of ordinary years, so as to have a respect and responsibility for life.