For our children, most of the stories told to them from childhood are from foreign countries, and "Grimm's Fairy Tales", "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales" and "Aesop's Fables" are the most heard stories for children when they grow up.
These stories are very suitable for children to read, and they are also very beautiful, but for our Chinese children, there will always be a fly in the ointment if they are not accompanied by Chinese fairy tales on their growth path.
Isn't there a local fairy tale in China? Actually, it's not, for example, the story in "Journey to the West" is often talked about by children, but what we lack is a systematic fairy tale created specifically for children.
In fact, there are a lot of Zhiwei novels in Chinese history, many of which are very suitable for children to read, and all of them have the function of providing children with growth guidance. And some of the characters we are very familiar with are also from these novels.
How to deliver these strange novels to children in a way that they can read and understand, and in a way that children are willing to accept, is the task that our contemporary children's writers should accomplish.
Li Mingzu, Ph.D., Chairman of the China Cross-Strait Children's Literature Research Association, is committed to the research, creation and promotion of children's literature. He extracted a lot of stories suitable for children to read from the Chinese Zhiwei novels and from the Jin Dynasty Ganbao's "Sou Shen Ji", and changed them into children's language with his own writing, and there is such a book "Sou Shen Story Collection: The Messenger Through Time and Space".
This book was illustrated by Lin Hongyao, a senior illustrator who has been engaged in picture book creation for more than 20 years, and has also made such a book illustrated and very beautiful, and a children's book comparable to the same foreign fairy tales.
So what stories do we have to tell us in this novel? The stories of Chang'e and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl that we often hear are all presented here. Of course, there may be discrepancies between these stories and the versions we hear, but this is the earliest record in history, and the version we know now has been interpreted by countless people. Letting children know about the earliest versions will undoubtedly help them understand the stories and broaden their horizons.
Here are more stories that we are not familiar with in "Sou Shen Ji". Because such a book more than 1,000 years ago, although it is famous, there are not many opportunities for contemporary people to read it. And as a notebook novel, the stories in "Sou Shen Ji" often only contain fragments of the story, which are often incomplete. But in Li Mingzu's pen, these stories take on a different state, allowing us to read the author's own version of the story, making these stories a fairy tale that children are happy to read.
In this book, there are 30 stories containing surprises, ingenuity, twists and turns, and it also contains different protagonists such as gods and ghosts, which constructs a collection of fantasy Chinese stories for us. Then let the children feel the charm of Chinese fairy tales in the reading of such a story, and nourish the children's lives with Chinese classical stories. #Fairy tale##Sou Shen Ji##Children's book on the headlines#