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Cao Wenxuan like water childhood

Issue 3

Tomorrow is World Book Day, to take

"Cao Wenxuan's Water-like Childhood"

As the theme, "Little Book Language" opened the third phase of the collection of works.

This time, in addition to reading the works, students can also submit their own experience of reading Cao Wenxuan's works

In his speech at the 6th International Literary Festival in Berlin, Germany, Cao Wenxuan said: "Water nourishes my soul and also nourishes my words. ”

When Cao Wenxuan was young, his family always stood by the water. In his view, water is alive, clean, elastic, and permeable. His works are also born of water, with a poetic nature towards goodness and beauty.

This may be why we should read the works of Teacher Cao Wenxuan.

Issue 3

Event information

【Participants】

National primary and secondary school students; small reporter of China Net

【Call for Quotations】

The call for entries begins with the publication of this article and is open until 12:00 noon on April 28, 2022

【Submission Channel】

All works will be delivered to the mailbox [email protected]

Contribute as an individual or collective;

For submissions organized by the school, as far as possible to send e-mails to the school as a unit, you can attach the relevant materials of the school organization activities (such as the experience of the instructor, the pictures related to the activities, the introduction of the school's experience in reading education, etc.).

【Request for Contribution】

Please submit your work as required to avoid regrets due to incorrect submission methods:

Submit the work in the form of a folder, the folder contains text/audio works and reader information tables, folder name: Cao Wenxuan's works reading / reading experience + [selected paragraph title] (self-selected passage to write [self-selected + recitation of reading list], experience to write [reading bibliography + article title]) + school + name;

Please download the reader information form in the attachment, fill it in and submit it with the work (information includes: school, class, author name, author contact number, instructor, instructor contact number);

Small Reader Information Sheet

A WORD document should be attached to the folder for the selected text paragraph, which contains the text content of the selected reading fragment and the copyright information of the reading list (including the source of the paragraph, the title, the author, the translator, and the publisher).

【Reading Requirements】

Young readers can read the passages by themselves, or they can read the same passages separately, read them by role, read together with multiple people, and read a passage with classmates, parents, teachers and other people around them.

The content of the reading is not limited to the chapters recommended by the editorial department, as long as it is the content of Cao Wenxuan's works. You can choose any of the recommended chapters, or you can choose the passages in Cao Wenxuan's works (paragraphs within 700 words, the recording time does not exceed 5 minutes), and interested students can participate more, regardless of the number of works. Quickly flip through your family's Cao Wenxuan works and choose your favorite chapter to read aloud.

When reading aloud, the words are clear, full of emotion, the tone is appropriate, and it is best to express your understanding.

【Recording Requirements】

The audio file format is MP3 or M4A, the audio content only contains reading fragments, do not add background music, do not need to introduce yourself,

The recording environment is quiet, do not have noise

Recording Tips:

If it is a wired headset, you can wrap the microphone with a cotton cloth and a towel to prevent spraying;

It is recommended not to record in the toilet, bathroom and other places, you can reduce the echo to make the sound clearer.

【Publication time and platform of works display】

The "Cao Wenxuan Like Water Childhood" series of works will be released on the "China Net Reporter" public account and the [China Net Education] public account, and the release time is early May 2022.

Excerpts from the essence

Cao Wenxuan like water childhood

Recite Chapter 1

"Bronze Sunflower And Reed Shoes" (excerpt)

Bronze herds cattle while collecting reed flowers.

People here, in the winter, often can't afford to wear cotton shoes, but wear a kind of reed shoes.

The shoe is made by first picking the fine reed flowers, then rubbing them evenly into the straw rope and weaving them into shoes. The shoe was thick, like a warm bird's nest. The local dialect calls it "hairy shoe nest". Dressed in winter, even walking in the snow, it was warm.

After harvesting the autumn crops, the Bronze family has decided: in the winter this year, the whole family will work together to weave a hundred pairs of reed shoes, and then let Bronze carry it on his back and sell it in Yau Ma Tei Town.

This is an income from the family, a very important income.

Thinking of this income, the whole family is very excited, and they feel that their hearts are bright, and the days ahead will be bright.

Bronze took a large cloth pocket and burrowed into the depths of the reeds, picking the furry, fluffy, silvery reeds and plucking them off the tassels. Don't take the first year, only the ones of the year. The reed flower is very much like duck down, and when you look at it, you feel warm in your heart. The reeds are endless, and the reeds are there, but the selection of bronze is very demanding. The cloth bag in your hand must contain the finest reed flowers. It took him a long time to fill a bag of reed flowers.

On Sundays, sunflowers would follow the bronze and walk into the reeds. She looked up and kept looking for it, and when she saw a particularly beautiful spike, she didn't pick it, and always shouted, "Brother, there's a spike here!"

Bronze sniffed and would rush over. When you see the spike of flowers that sunflowers are pointing to, you will smile and squint.

After picking enough flowers, the whole family began to act.

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In the days that followed, they kept pounding the grass, they kept rubbing the rope, they kept going around the rope, they kept weaving. Although life is hard, this family does not have a sad face. They were together, talking and laughing. What is in my heart is the present day, and what I yearn for is the days ahead. Although the carriage was broken, it was still a sturdy carriage. The carriage is slow, but there is also a front and a view. Five people, old and young, did not abandon this carriage for a moment. If they encounter wind and rain, mud, bumps, steep slopes, they will get out of the car, with their shoulders, with their hands, leaning over, and pushing it all the way forward with one heart.

In the moonlight, Grandma sang while rubbing ropes. Grandma's song can never be sung. The whole family likes to listen to her sing, and as soon as she sings, the whole family will no longer be tired, they will be refreshed, and the work will be better. Grandma touched the head of the sunflower next to her, smiled and said, "I sang to us sunflowers." ”

April roses are busy raising silkworms,

My sister-in-law both went to pick mulberry.

Mulberry basket hanging from mulberry trees,

Wipe the tears and put the mulberry...

Recite Chapter 2

Bronze Sunflower Paper Lantern (excerpt)

She is a girl who loves to read. She was even obsessed with reading, obsessed with school. Boys and girls, tall and short, clean and unclean, naughty, not naughty, small-minded, big-eyed, gathered together and made a fuss. But as soon as the bell rang, like a large fish playing on the surface of the water, it was suddenly alarmed and scattered, and in a moment, there was only a silent pond there, reflecting the floating clouds in the sky. After class, one by one, as if they had been in a cage for decades, they desperately ran outside. After a while, the open space in front of the classroom was dusty.

She ran in the dust.

Almost all girls like her.

They kicked shuttlecocks together, hopscotched together, and played all kinds of games together. There were often quarrels between the girls, but few girls quarreled with her. She also doesn't quarrel. Whatever they did, they were willing to take her with them. They kept shouting, "Sunflower, let's go together!" Sunflower, let's go together!"

Between girls, there is always something to say. I can't say enough about that. It is said on the road, in class, in any corner, even on the toilet – often on the toilet. Those boys, just over there eavesdropping. I can't hear clearly. The girls suddenly realized that their words had been overheard, so they did not say anything, but after a while, they spoke again.

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She liked those words, those numbers. She thought they were all magical. She likes so many people reading texts together, and prefers to be told by the teacher to stand up and read the texts alone. She knew from the silence that her reading was fascinating. Almost no one taught her how to read texts, but her reading was known throughout the school. Her voice was not loud, and even seemed a little weak. But her voice was as pure as if it had been washed with clean water. She knows the rhythm, she knows the weight, she knows the ups and downs. Just as sheep know grass, birds know the sky.

She read it as if it came from a distant place. Her readings, like insects chirping in the moonlight at night, brought the children into a state similar to drowsiness. They would hold their chins and listen, but when they did, they couldn't remember exactly what she had read.

Sometimes they don't even know when she's stopped reading, until the teacher says, "Let's read it again, let's read it again."

Recite Chapter 3

"Goats Don't Eat Paradise Grass" (excerpt)

Akiko has many memories of Shodo Village.

For example, the memory of the road —

There is a road in front of the village. This is the only way for Xiaodou Village to reach the world. It's an ugly road. It was narrow and curved, and there was not a single tree on either side of the road. It is more accurate to say that it is a field. As soon as it rains, the road immediately becomes muddy. The dirt was very sticky, like gum. If you wear shoes, you will stick them. Therefore, except for winter, when it rains in other seasons, people take off their shoes and walk the road barefoot. People slid down the road, ravaging the surface of the mud very well, without a single pimple. In the dirt, there is always some rubble and glass fragments, and people always have a chance to be scratched. Therefore, in the black soil, some blood droplets are often seen. As soon as the rain stopped, the wind blew, and the sun dried up, the road quickly hardened. So, until the next heavy rain came, the road was full of potholes. The potholes seemed to be forever. Walking at night, I often twist my feet, or I am tripped and fall into the ground on the side of the road.

For example, the memory of cooking tobacco —

Every house has an earthen stove. The chimney came out of the roof and looked strange. These stoves were completed with the house, and they were all old stoves. Three meals a day, the chimney is severely clogged. Whenever a fire is made to cook, the smoke cannot come out of the chimney unobstructed, is held in the hearth, and then flows into the house, through the door, out of the window. On cloudy days, the firewood was damp and the smoke was thicker, making the house foggy. The roof was covered with reeds, and the days were long, not as tight as before, and there were many leaks, and the smoke emanated directly from the roof. From a distance, it looked as if the house had taken off his hat after a long run in winter, and his head was full of heat. The fire in the hearth had stopped for half a day, but the heat on the roof was still emitting for a while. In the house, there is always an eternal smell of smoke.

Another example is the memory of the water pier -

No family in Xiaodou Village has a decent water pier. Because of poverty, everything here will be in place. The water pier will naturally be there. They dug a few hurdles with shovels and went to the water's edge. As soon as it rains, or as soon as the water rises, the ridge is soft and becomes a slope, and it becomes very difficult to carry water to the river to wash vegetables. A bucket of water is lifted from the water's edge to the shore, and it is necessary to be very careful, and one foot must be stepped on steadily, and the attention cannot be distracted a little. Even so, when a bucket of water does come to shore, it is only half a bucket because of the inevitable skew and toes. It is often seen that a little girl slipped and fell, grabbing a small tree or a handful of grass roots with both hands to prevent herself from slipping down, while watching with horror with her eyes the bucket that rolled into the river was drifting toward the center of the river; a boy finally did not stop sliding, and even people fell into the water with vegetable baskets...

Recite Chapter 4

"Goats Don't Eat Paradise Grass" (excerpt)

Akiko, who had been in a state of excitement, was now calmer and began to look closely at the group of small things:

Their coats were slightly golden in white, soft and undulating with the breeze; the four legs were slender, like the legs of a shrunken horse; the hooves were pale red or pale yellow, and they were crystal clear; the hairs on their foreheads swirled slightly, and when they looked closely, they felt that it was a flower; the tip of their nose was pink, like walking under a peach tree in March, and a peach blossom floated down and landed on the tip of their nose; the whites of their eyes were slightly red, and the eyeballs were black and painted; the rams had not yet grown horns. There are only two bones on the top of the head.

Akiko prefers their demeanor:

Mischievous, innocent, squeamish and stubborn, surprised whenever the wind blows, gentle but arrogant, quiet but lively, pitiable but sometimes angry...

Akiko loves them.

Akiko especially liked a ram in the middle of them. The ram was the biggest head in the flock. It was recognizable at first glance because of its eyes—under each of its eyes, there was a small clump of black hair of the same size. These two pieces of black make it even more noble. It always stands in the middle of the flock, holding its head high. Its appearance and aura exude a divine nature. Akiko soon discovered that it had a special place in the flock: the sheep always followed it.

Akiko stared at it for a long time. And gave it a name in my heart: black dot.

Recite Chapter 5

"Goats Don't Eat Paradise Grass" (excerpt)

It's spring again.

This year's spring came very strongly, almost a cold early spring, after the ice melted, it was a warm and melting yangchun. The sun is always very energetic and energetic, as if it were much younger at once. It flows in the sky, warms the air and wakes everything up. The dry brown winter, within a few days, disappeared, replaced by a fresh, fresh and tender green. Everything is growing and expanding. Life, desire, body and soul grow and develop restlessly by this great light. The sky rises day by day, the air becomes clearer day by day, and the earth becomes moist and alive day by day.

Spring is sacred, great, and worshippable, especially by those who have been entangled in bad luck in the cold of winter and have experienced enough of the pain of the cold.

When the golden celestial body rose noblely from the orange-red light to the heavens, when it moved majestically under the heavenly dome from east to west until it was sprinkled with a quiet red light in the western sky, no matter how much people praised and praised it, it was not excessive.

Spring makes people's eyes shine, spring makes people's mood bright, and spring makes people feel as if they have grown tall and matured a lot.

In such a season, Akiko feels excited and happy from morning to night. After removing his winter coat, he felt an indescribable ease and freedom like a horse that had removed its yoke. Recently, the business has also been very good and the income is good. Akiko bought some clothes for the changing season. People are clothes and horses are saddles, coupled with a good mood, Akiko has a dashing style. He no longer felt the thinness and weakness of his body, but felt that the flesh was growing strength little by little. He had a sense of masculinity and solidity.

Recite Chapter 6

"Grass House Vulture" (excerpt)

Vulture has never acted. But Vulture is determined to play the play well. With an unexpected speed, he memorized all the lines to a great deal.

I don't know if it was because Vulture was born with a talent for acting, or if this play was also seen by Vulture during rehearsals, and he actually took on the role in only one morning.

In the first two days of the performance, all the programs that participated in the performance were first performed by all the teachers and students of Yau Ma Tei Primary School, and when the vulture came on, the applause of the audience was thunderous, and the children had no trace of malice.

Vulture wants to make the play better. He took home all the costumes and props that the character would use. At night, he dressed himself as the commander of the pseudo-army company, went to the courtyard, and practiced over and over again by the moonlight: "Little girl, grow up fast, grow up, with the company commander, some eat and some wear, and there is an endless amount of the current ocean..."

He lifted the big cap in his hand, his bald head bare, and was present as a paper moon, spinning like a donkey and counting the board. When the company commander appeared, it was in the summer. Vultures dress themselves according to the summer. But now it's the middle of winter, and the cold is invading the muscles and bones. The vulture didn't care about the weather, so he kept walking, kept making movements, and his forehead was sweating.

By the day of the brightly lit stage, Vulture was already confident. "Tuqiao" received applause from the audience from the beginning of the performance, and then, the applause continued. When the vulture threw the big cap at his attendants, and the bald head shined in the light, the judges already sensed that Sancho was going to win another good place.

Vulture acted meticulously. He stepped on a large leather boot, stepped on a stool with one foot, grabbed a teapot from the table, drank the water straight into his neck, and then tilted his head, and his eyes bulged: "I Yang Da Bald Scoop, walk to Tuqiao..."

In the interplay with the paper moon, one is fierce, one is good, one is ugly, one is beautiful, and the contrast is very strong. It can be said that Vulture played that role to the end.

After the performance, the teachers and students of Yau Ma Tei Primary School were just immersed in the joy of victory, and when they suddenly thought of the vulture, the vulture was long gone.

Ask anyone, no one knows where the vulture is.

"Everyone immediately went to look for it separately." Sancho said.

It was Sangsang who was the first to find the vulture. At that time, the vulture was sitting on the lowest stone steps of the town's water pier, looking at the sparkling water of the moonlight.

Sangsang walked all the way to him and crouched down beside him: "I came to find you, everyone is looking for you." ”

Sangsang heard the sobbing of the vulture. Many teachers and students of Yau Ma Tei Primary School have come to look for them. They walked down the stone steps and said to the vulture, "Let's go home." ”

Sancho patted him on the shoulder: "Go, go home." ”

The vulture bit his finger with his mouth, trying not to let himself cry, but the cry still rushed out of his throat uncontrollably, almost turning into a loud cry.

Paper Moon cried, and many children cried too.

The pure moonlight shines on the river, on the teachers and students of Yau Ma Tei Primary School, and on one of the most handsome teenagers in the world...

Recite Chapter 7

"Grass House, Thin Horse" (excerpt)

He had felt more and more that Second Master Qiu liked him, and he liked him more and more. He couldn't swim, and there were rivers everywhere. Second Master Qiu was afraid that if he fell into the river—this opportunity was too much for the people living here—he would teach him to swim. Second Master Qiu stood in the water, first holding his belly with both hands and letting him flutter in the water, and then, with only one hand, he supported his chin and led him to swim forward slowly.

For several days in a row, Second Master Qiu taught him so patiently. Second Master Qiu was a good temper. The horse could finally take off Second Master Qiu's hand and swim forward, although it was still very clumsy and difficult, and it could only swim out and far away.

That day, Second Master Qiu sat by the river, watching him swim, and then remembered something, asked the horse not to swim far, and went back temporarily. Xiao Ma suddenly had the idea of being naughty with Second Master Qiu, and looking at Second Master Qiu's back, he quietly hid in the reeds by the water's edge.

Second Master Qiu remembered the thin horses in the water, and quickly returned, seeing that there were no thin horses on the water, and was shocked: "Fine horses! Fine horses! Seeing that no one agreed, and there was only a silent surface of water in front of him, Second Master Qiu shouted "Fine Horse" again and jumped into the water. He frantically scratched and groped in the water. I couldn't hold back under the water before I came out of the water: "Fine horse! Fine horses! He cried out in panic, his voice weeping.

The horse drilled out of the reeds and smiled at Second Master Qiu, who had once again emerged from the bottom of the water, revealing his front teeth. Second Master Qiu's body trembled unceasingly. He came over, grabbed the horse's ear, pulled him to the shore, and then picked up a stick and smashed the horse's ass. This was the first time that After the horse came to Yau Ma Tei, Second Master Qiu beat him—the first time he beat him so hard. Xiao Ma began to cry, and Second Master Qiu let go of his hand. When Xiao Ma saw it, Second Master Qiu seemed to be crying too.

Late that night, The Horse felt that someone had come to his bedside. He half-opened his eyes and saw Second Master Qiu holding a small oil lamp, looking down at his ass that had been smashed by a stick. Second Master Qiu was gone. He watched as Second Master Qiu's back disappeared into the doorway in the dim light, then closed his eyes. After a while, tears squeezed out of the cracks of his eyes.

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