"Children of China" is a reportage work jointly created by Zeng Pingbiao and Liao Zixin, with the theme of national identity and patriotism of Macao children.
A few days ago, the "Macao Children in the New Era, I Love You China - "Children of China" New Book Release and Theme Seminar" sponsored by Sunray Publishing House was held online, and the guests discussed the content creation of the book "Children of China" and how to tell the Chinese story of the new era and the creation of patriotic theme works.
The two authors of "Children of China", Zeng Pingbiao and Liao Zixin, shared the story behind the creation.
Speaking of the original intention of the creation, Zeng Pingbiao, as a media person, hopes to truly tell the patriotic stories of Macao children to the vast number of children across the country.
As a Macao writer, Liao Zixin not only tells about Macao's long-standing patriotic education tradition, but also looks forward to opening a window to understand Macao through the book, and presenting the home and country feelings of Macao children in a three-dimensional way.
Gao Hongbo, director of the Children's Literature Committee of the China Writers Association, believes that "Children of China" is a work with "lofty intentions, reasonable layout, and accurate entry angles" and "has both a sense of reality and history, and is a patriotic reading book with unique themes." ”
In the view of Hai Fei, former chairman of the China Branch of the International Children's Book Alliance, the development of Macao and the growth of children have touched the eyes of countless Chinese children, and "Children of China" has responded to this question with passion.
Regarding the idea of the book's choice of topics, Liang Hongying, editor-in-chief of The Literary and Art Daily, believes that the book pays attention to the three combinations and tells the patriotism of contemporary Macao children very vividly and movingly.
Children's literature critic Chen Xiang said that the scarcity, importance, currentity and epochality of the theme of "showing the national identity of Macao children" are relatively rare in the entire book publishing field.
In terms of thematic characteristics, many experts affirmed the book's distinctive thematic characteristics and believed that the book showed patriotism to the fullest.
Children's literature writer Zhang Lu believes that patriotism is the soul of this work, and the stories in the book are unforgettable.
Wang Zhigeng, deputy director of the Chinese Edition Library, believes that this is a masterpiece of cultivating patriotic feelings and strengthening the aspiration of strengthening the country, and has carried out group portraits for Chinese children in the new era, including both vivid and three-dimensional education on national conditions and vivid and true education in the four histories.
Xu Dexia, the former editor-in-chief of "Children's Literature", proposed that the stories in the book reflect the children's feelings of home and country everywhere, show their strong sense of the country, and are an excellent patriotic education book.
Nie Zhenning, chairman of the Taofen Foundation, believes that for writers who are new to the creation of children's books, it is very rare to be able to write a children's reportage so well.
Critic Cui Xinping said that the genre of reportage shows a unique ability to interpret and express reality, while the relatively limited number of reportage in children's literature provides a very good example for the children's literature community to further create works that focus on Chinese childhood writing in non-fiction forms.