"Dream of the Red Chamber" is a classical masterpiece with profound traditional cultural heritage, and every detail in it is worth careful consideration. It's just that for children who are still in the enlightenment stage, these words may be too difficult, and there are many obstacles to exploring alone.
I recall that when I first opened "Dream of the Red Chamber", I was just a primary school student, and my longing heart was poured cold water by the new words on the front page and the strange world in the book, and after closing the book, I let this classic be dusted for a long time.
Reading "Grandpa Liu Xinwu Talks About the Dream of the Red Chamber" this time, I can't help but sigh at the luck of my children.
This book is not in a hurry to instill any difficult literary knowledge in children, but uses kind language to tell the stories suitable for children in "Dream of the Red Chamber", telling children how prosperous the "Zhangmen" in the story was in that era, and what kind of interesting customs were "passed".
The book is also accompanied by exquisite illustrations drawn by Zheng Xiaoyu, a high-quality student who graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the New York School of Visual Arts, which adds a vivid color to the world of the Red Chamber.
I think this is another gift from Grandpa Liu Xinwu after accumulating more than 20 years of research on the Red Chamber and after he popularized the knowledge of the Red Chamber for the public in the "Hundred Pulpits". This time, Grandpa chose to sow seeds in the child's heart.
Use the story of the Red Chamber to give positive guidance to children
In this book, Grandpa Liu Xinwu does not talk about love, does not talk about the rise and fall of the family, does not talk about interpersonal intrigue, does not talk about inappropriate content for children, and guides children to understand that all things have ups and downs, and tells children to respect others and cherish themselves.
In the first lecture, "Yinglian is Abducted", the author explains the concept of "tragedy" lightly before introducing the plot: "The meaning of tragedy lies in revealing the evils in life, arousing people's emotions of grief and resistance, so as to cherish beautiful people and beautiful things." ”
It's a shame that I didn't know the positive meaning of the tragedy before I read it.
Next, the book tells how Zhen Shiyin, who was a daughter in his later years, met a leper monk and a lame Taoist priest on the street and got a prophecy from his daughter Zhen Yinglian that she would have no luck in life; how Zhen Yinglian was abducted by a kidnapper at the age of five and finally occupied by the playboy Xue Pan.
The whole text is concise and vivid, and in the face of "fate and no luck" and modern expression habits are very different, in the eyes of the child strange words when the author can really stand in the child's point of view, like his own grandfather as kind and plain for the child to explain, really close the distance between the child and the "Red Chamber".
In addition, the selection of the tragic plot of "Yinglian was abducted" can also warn children to have a defensive heart while being happy, which has realistic educational significance for children, which is a vivid teaching material available to parents.
✨ The interesting customs in the Popular Science Red Chamber fascinated the children
In the story of "Yinglian was abducted", the word "passing" appears, which is another word that makes most people feel strange, and thus feels that the world of "The Red Chamber" is distant and flat.
Of course, this book can not leave such a distance in the child's heart, and the book gives a very detailed note on the "passing meeting":
"'Passing' is one of the Chinese folk customs, in which some people dress up as various characters in mythological stories, perform along with tapping music, sometimes interspersed with acrobatics, stilt walking, and so on. Most of the meetings are held in the annual Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals. At the meeting, people go to the street to participate in or watch the parade, which is very lively and beautiful. ”
"I didn't expect it to be a very interesting event~" I sighed after seeing the explanation in the book, many things are boring, maybe just because we haven't understood their interesting points.
"Red Chamber Encyclopedia", tell you where the Red Chamber is interesting~
At the end of each lecture, "Grandpa Liu Xinwu Talks About the Dream of the Red Chamber" also specially set up a "Little Encyclopedia of the Red Chamber", which provides a lot of interesting knowledge related to the Red Chamber.
The small encyclopedia in the first lecture explains that Zhen Yinglian's birthplace "Zhangmen" has the meaning of Tianmen in mythology, and describes to the children the grand situation of Zhangmen's "Ten Mile Long Street, Ten Merchants Gathering" in the famous Paintings of the Qing Dynasty " Gusu Prosperous Map" and "Prosperous Breeding Map".
Xiaobaike finally summed it up like this: "Zhangmen was a very prosperous and lively place at that time. Children, if you have the opportunity to go to Suzhou, you must go to the Zhangmen area to visit ah! ”
Don't talk about children, I have already begun to move ~ ~
The encyclopedia not only includes the popularization of science on the world region of the Red Chamber and humanistic knowledge, but also explains to the children the harmonic sounds of the names of the characters in the Red Chamber, as well as the interesting couplets in the Dream of the Red Chamber. These are the "hidden benefits" in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and no one says that it may be really unknown.
The book "Grandpa Liu Xinwu Talks About the Dream of the Red Chamber" can be regarded as a set of vivid and interesting "Dream of the Red Chamber" preparatory textbooks, which not only carefully screens the plot of the Dream of the Red Chamber for the children, but also explains the jerky language in the book for the children, and describes the colorful world of the Red Chamber in detail.
I believe that this book will be able to sow the seeds of classic literature in the hearts of children, so that children can connect with the soil of the giant works early and wait until the time is ripe to break through.