Ruan Mei, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, vice president of the Chinese College of Hunan Polytechnic Institute (suspended position), vice president of the Hunan Reportage Literature Society, and part-time vice chairman of the Yueyang Municipal Federation of Literature, is currently working in the CPPCC of Huarong County, Yueyang City, Hunan Province. He has published more than 4 million words of literary works, and published more than ten books such as "Dear Daughter", "Growing Toward the Light", and "Running Like a Reed". His works have won more than 30 awards, including the 2016 Bingxin Children's Literature New Works Award, the 2019 Bingxin Children's Book Award, the 4th Bingxin Prose Award, the 4th National Top Ten Charming Poets Award, the 4th Children's Literature Golden Recent Award, the 4th Beijing Literature Award, the 11th and 13th Hunan Provincial Spiritual Civilization Construction "Five One Project" Award, and so on.
China Youth Daily client news (China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter only Hengwen) "I hope that this book can help ordinary children in every family to form sunny, confident, inclusive, strong, optimistic, grateful character, become children whose parents are assured, and become qualified citizens of the country." When talking about the creative experience of "A Girl Walking Forward", the author Ruan Mei said so.
"A Girl Walking Forward" was jointly planned by Hebei Publishing and Media Group and the Propaganda Department of Guangxi Baise Municipal Party Committee, and children's literature writer Ruan Mei took two years to complete. The work focuses on the juvenile time of Huang Wenxiu, the winner of the "July 1st Medal", the model of the times, the national model of poverty alleviation, and the national outstanding Communist Party member, and records the real growth experience of a self-reliant Zhuang girl under the support of her parents and relatives and social neighbors under the sunshine of the times with the creative technique of documentary literature.
On April 23, "A Girl Goes Forward" was selected as "2021 China Good Book".
On April 27th, the seminar on Ruan Mei's children's literature "A Girl Walking Forward", sponsored by Literature and Art Daily and Hebei Publishing and Media Group, and undertaken by Hebei Children's Publishing House, was held in a combination of online and offline. Wu Yiqin, vice chairman of the China Writers Association and secretary of the Secretariat, attended the meeting and delivered a speech; more than 20 experts and scholars, including Gao Hongbo, Pan Kaixiong, He Xiangyang, Li Chaoquan, Liu Qiong, as well as leaders and relevant personnel of the Propaganda Department of the Hebei Provincial PARTY Committee, Hebei Publishing and Media Group, and Hebei Children's Publishing House, attended the meeting. The meeting was presided over by Liang Hongying, editor-in-chief of Literature and Art Daily.
Wu Yiqin said that "A Girl Walks Forward" is an excellent children's literature work with great emotion, temperature, appeal, and can reflect the spirit of the times, and it is also an important harvest of new era literature in the theme publishing. As a model of the contemporary youth generation and a recipient of the "July 1st Medal", Huang Wenxiu's spiritual outlook and ideological realm, as well as her feelings for the times, the country, the nation and the land, are all of inspirational and exemplary significance, and she is the representative and role model of contemporary youth.
In the view of Hai Fei, an expert and publisher of children's literature, Ruan Mei's "A Girl Walks Forward" has a growing childlike nature, the hero is also a process of growth when he is a child, and Huang Wenxiu's childhood story and juvenile story are real and respectable. The second is that it has a distinct literary character, and the books about individuals and families, culture and life, life and activities, society and school, and gratitude are all presented by distinct literary expressions. The third is to have superb artistry, Ruan Mei tells the growth of teenagers with the growth of Huang Wenxiu, tells the story of China's poverty alleviation with the story of a family, gathers romantic art from the spirit of the times, witnesses the progress of our times, the growth of teenagers breaking through cocoons into butterflies, and the youthful uplifting appearance of Shaohua, with superb literary artistry.
The participating experts agreed that the author used objective techniques and abundant emotions to restore Huang Wenxiu's life experience and mental journey, depicted the growth experience and true appearance of ordinary heroes in the new era, not only wrote the history of the spiritual growth of the heroes of the times, paved an emotional channel to the hero's inner world, and sang a song of youth in the new era.
The scene of the seminar "A Girl Walks Forward". (Courtesy of the organizer)
Source: China Youth Daily client