"Grass House" that touched the child's heart
Yan Jianguo
"Grass House" has more than 210,000 words and took two days to read it in a hurry.
Professor Cao Wenxuan I have seen, in early December 2017, coordinated by Shandong Tomorrow Publishing House, Professor Cao went to Dongping to explain the knowledge of writing to middle school students, and as an escort, I participated in relevant activities. After the meeting, I took a photo with Professor Cao alone, but unfortunately the photographer did not save it, and when he remembered to give it to me, his camera was not there. Professor Cao, as a talented man who grew up in Yandu District, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, may be affected by the humid climate in the south, and his speech is also crisp and soft, and he looks like a scholar who is not impatient.
Because he is engaged in the teaching and research work of big reading, so he has an understanding of the current extracurricular reading list of middle school students, so he pays more attention to the works of Cao Wenxuan, one of the four editors-in-chief of junior high school language textbooks, has read works such as "Grass House" and "Osmanthus Rain", and when listening to the teachers' reading guidance classes and exchange classes, there are many exchanges with teachers and students about the whole book of "Grass House", and everyone likes Professor Cao's style and meaning very much, and thinks that he is a good writer who writes for children with his heart at the moment.
Compared with the other two works recommended in the first semester of the first grade, Gorky's "Childhood" and Qu Bo's "Lin Hai Snow Field" are relatively revolutionary education themes. Although "Grass House" depicts some things around Sangsang, the protagonist of Yau Ma Tei Primary School in a county in Suzhou from 1959 to 1962, because Professor Cao Wenxuan pays attention to the rich plot that happens around the children with "touching" stories and brushstrokes, many junior high school students like to read this book. In contrast, Gorky's "Childhood" and Qu Bo's "Lin Hai Snow Field" are a bit snubbed and slow.
The first-year students are just over 12 years old, and their reading is still dominated by narrative characters and storyline texts. Looking at "Grass House", you can basically do the classic requirements of having a certain reading interest no matter which chapter you start reading. Although none of the nine chapters of the book is written about the protagonist Sangsang, each story revolves around Sangsang, a lively and mischievous primary school student. "Vulture" writes about the differences and friendship between Sangsang's classmate Lu He and Sangsang, and writes about Lu He's discrimination and step-by-step growth; the chapter of "Paper Moon" writes about the luck and misfortune of the illegitimate daughter Paper Moon, and writes about the secret affairs of the first cute men and women; the two chapters of "White Sparrow" write the love story of Sangsang teacher Jiang Yilun and the young white sparrow of Yau Ma Tei, originally this matter was a little far away from Sangsang, a little teenager, but because Jiang Yilun was his class teacher, he participated in it; the chapter of "Fine Horse" described the sangsang classmate Xioma, who passed from Jiangnan to Yau Ma Tei Qiu's second grandfather's family. This is a naughty teenager who does not like to read but has a business mind; the two chapters of "Red Gate" describe the family affairs of Du Xiaokang, a classmate of Sangsang who was changed after his family was rich, first writing about Du Xiaokang's wealth and superiority, and then writing about the grievances and strength after the change, which shows Cao Wenxuan's attention and influence on the frustration education of junior high school students in his writing mind; the final chapter of "Yaoliao" superficially writes about Sangsang's teacher Wen Youju's illness and weakness and boiling medicine and drinking medicine, adding Sangsang's illness panic and finally healing to make the whole book climax at the end. Professor Cao Wenxuan used the eyes of children to examine the happiness and sorrow, cold and warmth under the grass house of Yau Ma Tei Primary School, and the soothing brushstrokes told a vivid story, which captured the ignorance of junior high school students, no wonder his works have tens of millions of small readers.
Professor Cao Wenxuan said: "As far as writers are concerned, everyone has a unique life that will never be the same as others. As long as you have lived sincerely, as long as you can write it sincerely, it will always touch people. "Children can be moved." Moving others with his own writing, this is Cao Wenxuan's original intention and pursuit of the goal, this is the other trick he tells to attract people and grasp the heart, I hope that other writers and even middle school students will understand, think, try to use when writing, people are willing to dialogue with the sincere heart, the writing of the literary decoration is naturally critical, but the distinct theme of goodness and beauty is the soul of the command, I hope that children reading Cao Wenxuan's works must read the road and justice in the world, which is the moral cornerstone of future growth and life.
"Grass House", although dirt and countryside, it is a window and nourishment for children's hearts. When children encounter small setbacks, you can motivate yourself with the note that Lu He wants to play the bald company commander of the "Tuqiao" program handed to Teacher Jiang Yilun:
Teacher Jiang, can I have a try?
Try it, go to the grown up Yau Ma Tei, and build a big house of life.
No regrets, no fear, let's try it.