A few days ago, the second "Xia Youmei Cup" National Youth Story Competition came to an end. Zheng Chunchun, a 6-year-old girl from Fengjing Town, Jinshan District, Shanghai, stood out from a total of 24 outstanding contestants in various regions across the country after several rounds of competition, and won the only special gold award, becoming the youngest winner of the award.
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Two small pigtails, fair and small face. As soon as Zheng Chunchun sat down, he took out two figurines as "actors" and began to focus on telling stories in his imaginary world. The narration surrounding Zheng Chunchunchun's growth process is mainly completed by her mother Yu Lu: "Xiao Mao's fate with the story began long before she was born. ”
Xiao Mao is the milk name of Zheng Chunchun. Her grandfather, Yu Linxing, is a heavyweight in Chinese storytelling. In 2007, Yu Linxing won the highest national folk art award - the Mountain Flower Award for his works. Since 2000, he has spent 10 years building the Fengjing cultural brand, bringing the Fengjing story from the "Jinshan Depression" to the position of "National Highland". In 2011, Fengjing Town was named the only "Chinese Story Base" in the country by the China Folk Artists Association. In 2018, Yu Linxing became the deputy director of the Story Committee of the China Civil Association, responsible for the organization, coordination and guidance of national story activities, and promoting the construction and management of China's story hometown and various story bases. Referring to the experience of Fengjing, a number of "story towns" and "story bases" have been established across the country. In order to create a new road of rejuvenation of Chinese stories, on the basis of holding children's storytelling training courses for more than 10 consecutive years, Yu Linxing has opened a training camp for young story writers since this year and personally taught on stage.
Born in such a "story house", when Zheng Chunchun was still in his mother's belly, he had already felt the atmosphere at various cultural and artistic activities, and just landed on the ground and was held by his grandfather to sleep with a Shanghai opera minor, and was taken by his mother to "observe" the children's story competition at the age of 2 months. By the age of 3, she spoke, her speech was clear and her voice was crisp, which stood out among her peers.
"Many children have a strong desire to express, and their feelings are warm and sincere. We found this feature particularly prominent in Xiao Mao, who sees language practice as part of the game itself. Yu Lu said.
In 2020, Yu Linxing improvised an anti-epidemic nursery rhyme, which was read to Zheng Chunchun one by one, and the child listened to it twice and wrote it down. That year, this 3-year-old girl appeared in a widely circulated small video, reciting "smashing the little virus with one punch" in frustration, bringing hope and courage to many people. By 2022, Zheng Chunchun will cooperate with his mother to tell the red fairy tale "Red Little Girl on the Long March Road", and cooperate with his grandfather to fight the epidemic poem "Do Nucleic Acid". In the mother-daughter collaboration of the 5-minute parent-child story "Mom, I Grew Up", "Xiao Mao is naturally relaxed, can understand the story close to the characters, and performs better than me." Yu Lu commented.
Interest is the best teacher, and innocence is the most precious talent. From the age of 3 to 6, the family ordered "The King of Children's Stories" She would pester her mother to tell it from beginning to end, she could remember the synopsis after listening to it, and then tell it in her own words. When her mother doesn't have time to spend time with her, she will piece together the staccato words she barely reads against the illustrations in the extracurricular books, stretch the wings of her imagination, and weave them into a new story. When facial expressions, body language, and emotions are needed to substitute these performance skills, children are always more engaged than adults, and can design their own expressions and movements without a teacher. The created world blends with real experience, "the little turtle speaks with its head held high, the elephant speaks with its head bowed", how to emphasize the characteristics of the role and how to switch roles, to Zheng Chunchun has become an innate skill.
But the best talent also needs to be polished. In order to make Zheng Chunchun's story performance more accurate, Yu Lu helped her daughter adjust the details of the speech at first. Starting in 2022, the family invited Pan Xiaowei, an expert in children's story training in Zhejiang, to give Zheng Chunchun a weekly online class. Usually a new show can be produced in 3 weeks, "the first week can be told, the second week adds the details of the performance, and the third week is polished." Yu Lu said. And the first time Zheng Chunchun walked on the big stage from a small video was in the Fengjing Ancient Theater. The "Shanghai Laughing World Burlesque Performance", which brought together many burlesque stars in Shanghai, came to Fengjing, and Zheng Chunchun used story telling to make a hot scene, without fear of the scene.
Over the years, Zheng Chunchun has won more than "Xia Youmei Cup". She has also won the 2023 Shanghai Children's Art Single Exhibition Event Story Special (Large Class Group) Gold Award, the 2023 Taoli Cup Dance Art Exhibition (Shanghai Station) Second Prize, and the title of "Top 100 Shanghai Language Stars" in the 2022 Shanghai Citizen Cultural Festival Shanghai Language Competition.
Shanghai language is a characteristic teaching in Shanghai Experimental Kindergarten, and teachers from Shanghai Opera Troupe will regularly select some qualified children for training. Zheng Chunchun, a little girl who fell asleep listening to Shanghai opera, was selected to enter the Shanghai opera class when she was in the small class, and soon became the lead singer. Once the Shanghai Documentary Humanities Channel came to the kindergarten to shoot a series of "Shanghai Language into Campus", and she was also selected at a glance, and under the camera, she became a "Shanghai language teacher" for children of the same age.
In September this year, Zheng Chunchun entered primary school, and Yu Lu was also full of hope. "Every child will show her own talent when she is not yet enlightened. What we need to do is to discover her, cherish her, teach her according to her aptitude, and let talent blossom in fertile soil." Correspondent | Fan Liping
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Responsible Editor | Cheng Jiayu Gan Yuqiong