Integrating Chinese music elements into a childlike story, and then interspersing catchy children's poems, a novel, interesting, and can improve musical literacy and aesthetic ability of the picture book "Guzheng Takes You to Roam the Land of Poetry", with a unique debut way to break into the vision of the majority of readers. As the first Guzheng picture book at present, "Guzheng Takes You to Roam the Land of Poetry and Music" was published by Yunnan Education Publishing House a few days ago.
The cover of "Guzheng Takes You to Roam the Country of Shiyin".
The picture book "Guzheng Takes You to Roam the Land of Poetry and Music" was co-created by Yi Suwanna, a senior teacher at Kunming Youth Activity Center, Tang Ping, a famous children's literature writer, and Xu Xiaoxiao, a freelance illustrator. The picture book is based on 34 guzheng stories and ancient Chinese music stories, and children's poems run through them, allowing young readers to roam in the kingdom of poetry, music and painting. Listen to the guzheng fairy tell about the beauty of the guzheng, the seven-tone ladybug will carry 7 happy notes for you, the crazy fingers will open the treasure house of musical instruments for you, the elf family will tell you the code of happiness, the grasshopper will teach you to understand the concert etiquette, the Shiyin Kingdom Art Exhibition will expand your artistic perspective and literary knowledge...... "Guzheng will take you to roam the Shiyin country" will scatter Chinese music elements in a story full of childlike fun, so that the guzheng will take young readers to understand Chinese music, love Chinese culture, and improve the aesthetic style.
Artistic enlightenment and aesthetic taste are the original intention of creation
"It was my early wish to write a picture book for children that is novel and interesting, and can improve their musical literacy and aesthetic ability. Talking about the original intention of the creation of "Guzheng Takes You to Roam the Land of Poetry", the author Yi Su Wanna said. She believes that the level of aesthetic ability and the expansion of knowledge structure determine whether children can capture and feel the beautiful moments in life sensitively, and all this needs to start from the enlightenment of art and the initial aesthetic taste.
To this end, Yi Suwana tries to borrow the techniques of fairy tales to personify, story, color, live and art the guzheng, and use children's poems to strengthen the understanding and pursuit of art, so that music can bring beauty to children, and combine the relaxed and easy-to-understand characteristics of picture books and reading books, so that children can improve their aesthetic style through guzheng in the scene of listening to stories, playing games, guessing riddles, and watching paintings.
An excerpt from "Guzheng Takes You to Roam the Country of Shiyin".
"Ms. Isuwana accidentally saw my children's poems and thought they could be combined with music, so she asked me to write them, and the combination of poetry, sound and painting is indeed very beautiful, which can bring beautiful experience and inspiration to children, so we decided to create this book together. Tang Ping, another author of the picture book, said that the most important thing to create such a picture book is to choose children's poems that fit with music and painting, which are not only innocent and romantic, childlike and literary, but also rich in picture sense, easy for painters to create, and musical, catchy to read, so that children can play a tune with the guzheng according to the poem, enriching the experience of children's spiritual beauty.
Blending innovation and immersion is the key to creation
When it comes to the creation of picture books, Suwana has her own experience. In the past 20 years of guzheng teaching, she found that most children pursue playing skills more and do not look for the joy of "touching" music, and the original teaching materials are relatively lack of interest and vividness, and the interaction between teachers and students is not enough, so Yi Suwana compiled the textbook "Twenty Lessons for Children's Guzheng" for students, which uses a large number of pictures and texts to explain interestingly, which alleviates the boring feeling of children practicing Guzheng for a long time to a certain extent. In Suwana's view, children should not only read music scores and play notes, but also learn to feel music, integrate into music, learn to create and use music, so that music can cultivate an optimistic and positive personality and a unique aesthetic perspective, expand music knowledge, and improve artistic accomplishment.
An excerpt from "Guzheng Takes You to Roam the Country of Shiyin".
"There are many stories of ancient Chinese music, but it is not easy to intersperse them in stories, riddles, and music in an interesting and clever way, and to briefly narrate Dunhuang, Bai Juyi, the Book of Songs, Chu Ci, and the brief history of Guzheng, so I have learned many children's literature. In the process of creation, Yi Suwanna, writer Tang Ping, illustrator Xu Xiaoxiao, and editor Liu Shuchang collided and polished repeatedly, and finally completed the picture book "Guzheng Takes You to Roam the Land of Poetry".
"Dressed in ancient costumes and wearing a high bun, sometimes dancing in the air, sometimes picking flowers in the forest, sometimes lively and mischievous, sometimes gentle and calm, the little animals of the forest like her, the elves of the music tree like her, the fish at the bottom of the sea also like her, she travels through the past and the present, and brings countless beautiful music. This is the picture book illustrator Xu Xiaoxiao's guzheng fairy.
An excerpt from "Guzheng Takes You to Roam the Country of Shiyin".
"Yunnan is a place with a lot of senses for me, with green mountains and green waters, birds and flowers, and rich written content that has given me great inspiration for my creation. Xu Xiaoxiao believes that the whole book is very rich in content, both in terms of text and illustrations, it is very attractive, and it is of great help to enhance children's imagination and color perception.
Tang Ping feels that the value of "Guzheng Takes You to Roam the Land of Poetry" is reflected in the beauty of art to inspire children and warm adults. She said: "Beauty can awaken the tenderness and agility of life, only with a spiritual heart, in order to feel more the beauty of life, maybe big friends in the hurry of life, pick up this book, can also feel the innocence and childlike innocence that once had." ”
Edutainment and spiritual nourishment are at the heart of creation
"Children's aesthetic education is very important, it can encompass children to have a beautiful, strong and gentle heart, which is equivalent to laying the foundation for children's personality building. Tang Ping believes that only by buttoning the first button for children and allowing them to have a keen perception of beauty from an early age can we open a more hopeful future and let children move towards light and warmth.
An excerpt from "Guzheng Takes You to Roam the Country of Shiyin".
In the author's opinion, "Guzheng Takes You to Roam the Land of Shiyin" only wants to be a key to open the palace of children's music, leading children into a fairy tale world constructed by traditional Chinese music, and allowing children to decorate the colors of this world with their own hands. The soft notes are like a pink flower and green grass, planted by the window, accompanying the children to sleep sweetly, and the rich notes are like a big tree and a house, sheltering the children from the wind and rain, and at the same time, giving them strong support and confidence to face life. Every note is adding a touch of brilliant color to the world, injecting nutrients and strength into the child's heart.
For readers, "Guzheng Takes You to Roam the Land of Poetry and Music" uses poetry, music, painting and literature to take you to pluck the heartstrings of the traditional Chinese musical instrument, to explore the beauty of the sound of the strings and the lingering sound of the zither music, to let your hearing, vision and soul to discover, appreciate and create beauty, let you feel how beautiful it is for music to be accompanied by poetry and meet colors, and let you realize how wonderful it is for notes to "see" colors and poems to "play" melodies. "Do, Lai, Mi, Fa, Shu, La, Xi" and "Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple" can weave the most beautiful music and painting for you, allowing you to roam in the poetic music kingdom and have a childhood accompanied by "Zheng". (Kunming Information Port reporter Yu Xiao)
Author's business card
Isuwana:
Senior teacher of Kunming Youth Activity Center. He is currently a director of the Pipa Society of the Chinese Musicians Association, an executive director of the Guzheng Society of the Yunnan Musicians Association, the vice president of the Pipa Society, a senior judge of the National Social Art Examination Review Committee, and a member of the 14th CPPCC of Kunming. In his early years, he was engaged in professional performance of guzheng and pipa, and composed solo pieces "Lancang River", "Peacock" and "Morning in the Children's Palace". In 2000, he began the research and promotion of youth folk music education, published professional textbooks "Twenty Lessons for Children's Guzheng", the picture book "Happy Rabbit Guzheng Master", and combined with the characteristics of children, he created 100 interesting practice songs such as "Crab Crawling", "Magic Finger", "Left Hand Loves Right Hand", "Rock Paper Scissors" and "Fish Swimming", and created the first picture book Guzheng class.
Tang Ping:
Famous author of children's literature. His works have won the Bingxin Children's Book Award, the Bingxin Children's Literature New Work Award, and have been awarded the Top Ten Charming Poets in China by Children's Literature for two consecutive years. She is affectionately known as "Sister Magic" by young readers because she is good at writing magical and beautiful magic stories, and has published more than 60 works so far. He is currently the vice chairman of the Yunnan Writers Association and the director of the Children's Literature Committee of the Yunnan Writers Association.
Xu Xiaoxiao:
Also known as Xiao Banxia, a freelance illustrator, he is good at watercolor painting and ink painting style. He is a contracted artist of Visual China and Graffiti Kingdom, and has drawn and published more than 20 picture books. His works include the "Twenty-four Solar Terms" series, the "Ancient Forest Girl" series, etc.