Parent-child reading | Children's Literature "The Secret of the Treasure Gourd"

As a book that I particularly like, I feel that it is not too much to introduce it several times. A book worth reading over and over again.

The book came out in 1958 and influenced generations of Chinese. Its author, Zhang Tianyi, is also a well-known figure in the entire history of literature. Xia Zhiqing, a famous overseas literary critic, in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese novels, he praised Zhang Tianyi, Zhang Ailing, Qian Zhongshu, and Shen Congwen as the four masters of the Golden Decade of the Republic of China. Moreover, Mr. Xia also specially praised Mr. Zhang Tianyi's satirical genius, which is even higher than Mr. Lu Xun.

However, Mr. Zhang Tianyi was actually a small fan of Mr. Lu Xun at that time. Later, under the influence of Mr. Lu Xun, he joined the Chinese Left-Wing Writers' Union. Mr. Lu Xun also particularly admired Mr. Zhang Tianyi and gave him a lot of support. However, Mr. Zhang's literary talent is largely due to his family origins.

Zhang Tianyi was a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan, and his father, Zhang Tongmo, was also admitted to the jinshi at the end of the Qing Dynasty. In such a bookish door, his parents' love for literature also deeply influenced Zhang Tianyi. So, how important it is for an older friend to read with a child.

After liberation, Mr. Zhang also served as the secretary of the Secretariat of the China Writers Association and the editor-in-chief of The People's Literature. His representative works include fairy tales "Dalin and Kobayashi", "The Secret of Bao hulu", novels such as "Mr. Warwick" and "Ghost Soil Diary". His fairy tales actually have an important place in the history of children's literature.

The book "The Secret of the Treasure Gourd" is particularly significant, that is, to tell children that there is no such thing as unearned gain in the world. We can also understand that often do not want to work so hard, want to play want to have a baby, help him solve all the difficulties.

However, this way itself has a big problem, the volume helped you write, has the knowledge been learned? The goldfish helped you catch it, did you learn to fish? The funniest thing is to make Wang Bao famous, took a bunch of awards and certificates, and gave it to a student Wang Bao, what is the use of this?

People who don't know anything have a bunch of things that don't belong to them, so the treasure gourd is classified as a thief and a liar. In fact, without the process, there can be no good results. All of these are very valuable parent-child reading points, and guiding children to read this point will be able to appreciate Mr. Zhang's good intentions in writing this book.

When reading a book, we will think of doting children, parents who do things, is not a bit like a treasure gourd. In addition to not getting something for nothing, there is actually a topic in the book that is particularly worrying for parents. Bao Hulu asked Wang Bao to keep the secret, saying that he could not tell anyone that there was a treasure gourd, so Wang Bao deceived his classmates and deceived the teacher, even his grandmother and sister, parents and parents were also deceived. In order to keep this secret, he himself lived every day with fear, and he came with his mouth open when he lied.

Although it is a work of literature, it is estimated that the big friends are a little nervous to see here. If someone tells the child with a sinister intention, this is my secret with you, you can't tell anyone, then what should the parents do?

Do not worry. Max van Menan from Canada and Bass-Léveling from the Netherlands wrote a book called "Children's Secrets— Secrets, Privacy, and a New Understanding of the Self." Their research found that in fact, human growth is accumulated by various secrets.

The history of human growth, that is, the secret history of development. Therefore, on the one hand, parents should set aside appropriate secret time for their children, such as time to think alone, and there is also a secret space, that is, a private space where they can be alone, which is very necessary. At the same time, under the premise of respecting secrets, we must pay attention to communication and learn "how to say that children will listen, how to listen to children to speak". This problem can naturally be solved.

In addition to its educational significance, this book also has a strong literary significance. Children may ask why the author wrote a magical gourd to tell this truth. Wouldn't it be nice to let Wang Bao have magic himself?

From a professional literary point of view, this involves the question of a universal archetype. The universal archetype is the eternal theme of all literature. "One Thousand and One Nights" has an Aladdin lamp, "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales" has a lighter box, the famous Doraemon, these classic images are called the universal archetype. And the universal archetype is another subject of the novel, it can have its own thoughts, have its own emotions, and can also bring conflict and tension to the plot.

Cute children may ask, so why did you choose the gourd? Why not the secret of watermelon, the secret of peach.

This has something to do with Chinese tradition. According to the survey, there are now at least 20 ethnic minorities in China who worship gourds. In ancient mythology, the Fuxi and Nuwa we know as well are also regarded as the embodiment of the gourd.

Later, when creating an omnipotent image with the child, the gourd can come in handy. At the same time, the reason why the treasure gourd is an eternal literary classic, there are two unique features.

The first is the author's imagination. The author uses his grand imagination to construct an illusory multidimensional world. The one dimension is the authentic world before Wang Bao got the treasure gourd, and the other dimension is the surreal absurd world.

The absurd world is a semi-illusory world with treasure gourds, special abilities, and treasure gourds can make Wang Bao's heart change from desire to reality. But everything else needs to follow the laws and orders of real society.

But later in the book, Mr. Zhang Tianyi deliberately let the talking goldfish appear. The goldfish told Wang Bao from a bystander's point of view that not only the things that were conjured up were fake, but maybe everything around you was fake, the classmates were definitely fake, the parents could be fake, and Wang Bao might be in a completely illusory world.

The ingenuity of this multidimensional world lies in the fact that we can see the logic of each dimension. In fact, it is true, and it makes sense. From this point of view, Zhang Tianyi's idea is very interesting.

You can think about it, if Wang Bao chooses to continue to believe in The Gourd, thinking that the Gourd is not lying. The treasure gourd does have superpowers, so he must live in the illusion. If he wants to find contact with the world, to find his real father and mother, he must choose to deny the existence of the treasure gourd. This may also be the metaphor conceived by Mr. Zhang Tianyi. If you really want to live this kind of unearned life, then you may only exist in the illusion.

Secondly, in addition to the multidimensional world, this book has another highlight, that is, the image of the treasure gourd is written to life. We know that taking the Aladdin lamp as an example, it has not changed from beginning to end. It exists to serve the plot, but this gourd is different.

In this book, it is not only spiritual, it is reflected in the fact that it can see the desires of the protagonist, but the spirituality will grow into a demonic nature later on. The gourd will pay more and more attention to my own growth, and it says that I also need to exercise my skills. Since I live in this world, I have to have my life, I have to be active, I have to develop, I have to be worthy of my role. If I don't move and don't exert myself, and if I don't care, then I will wither and rot. I had to find an opportunity to use my abilities to make life interesting.

The treasure gourd is no longer a stupid gourd that does not understand human feelings at the beginning, it has begun to learn the rules of human society, and even learn the selfishness of human society. It only practiced its own skills, regardless of whether the results it brought to Wang Bao were good or bad.

So until the plot of the whole story is pushed to a climax, and all the secrets are made public, the contradiction between the treasure gourd as the object and the main body of Wang Bao also reaches its peak. The treasure gourd even revealed an evil side, and it tried to induce Wang Bao in this way.

Yes, there were people in this world who loved you before and were better off than you, but now it's different. It's not known what kind of person they're going to treat you like, so just leave no one alone. Just live your good life alone.

Hearing this, Wang Bao finally woke up. He felt that the more Bao Hulu spoke, the more he listened, the less like a human voice, and there was a word in the middle, and he couldn't understand it.

Literary critics of Zhang Tianyi's works believe that a child who dislikes reading the most will not lose his hand when he reads. Mr. Zhang's text is satirical and humorous. Of course, "The Secret of the Treasure Gourd" and "Grass House" have one thing in common, that is, the visual sense of their language. I think you'll love this book!