On the morning of June 1, the "Grass House Paradise", based on the classic work "Grass House" of Cao Wenxuan, a famous children's literature writer and winner of the International Hans Christian Andersen Award, opened in Cao Wenxuan's hometown of Yandu District, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. Many experts and scholars in the literary and publishing circles affirmed the birth of The Grass House Paradise, and Cao Wenxuan sent a special "congratulatory gift". Cao Wenxuan transferred his "International Hans Christian Andersen Award" medal and the manuscript of "Grass House" to the Paradise Literature Museum for permanent exhibition, and donated 800,000 yuan of children's literature books free of charge.
Citizens visit the Garden Literature Museum
Professor Cao Wenxuan's famous work "Grass House"
Dai Yuan, secretary of the Yancheng Municipal Party Committee, visited cao Wenxuan's former residence
Cao Wenxuan was born in 1954 in Zhougu Village, Zhongxing Street, Xuefu Town, Yandu District, Yancheng City, and his main literary works include "Grass House", "Bronze Sunflower", "Goats Don't Eat Paradise Grass", "Root Bird" and so on. In April 2016, Cao Wenxuan won the "International Hans Christian Andersen Award".
"Grass House" is a novel by Cao Wenxuan, which tells the children's painful growth process through the depiction of the protagonist boy Sangsang's six-year primary school life. Since its release in 1997, the novel has sold well in more than 100 countries and regions, with a print volume of more than 20 million copies, which has touched countless readers, and everyone has a "grass house" in their hearts.
The story of "Grass House" takes place in Yau Ma Tei Primary School, based on Cao Wenxuan's alma mater, Zhou Gang Primary School. The local government fully excavated the cultural connotation, and after four years of polishing to form a design plan, the grass house paradise was built. The total construction area of the project is 28,000 square meters, which mainly includes quality development, on the way to school, research and education, reminiscence and nostalgia, style restoration and other areas, and has built a literature museum, a research hall, and a Taole Fort. It is worth mentioning that in the "Yau Ma Tei Primary School", the architectural style of 30 or 40 years ago is well preserved, and visitors can deeply feel the growth environment and story scene of the characters in the "Grass House" novel.
Leaders of Yancheng City and District and Professor Cao Wenxuan visited the Paradise Literature Museum
Wang Juan, secretary of the Yandu District Party Committee and mayor of the district, said at the opening ceremony: "It is the common wish of all sectors of society to vividly display Professor Cao Wenxuan's literary works. We fully excavated the cultural connotations, and after four years of polishing to form a design plan, the construction officially began in March 2020. The grass house paradise built today is the prototype location of the novel "Grass House", with a total construction area of 28,000 square meters, mainly including entrance services, quality expansion, school road, study and education, reminiscence nostalgia, style restoration of six areas, literature museum, research hall, Taole Fort, theme hotel four major functional buildings, will become a children's favorite fantasy fairy tale paradise, research practice base, literacy improvement hall. ”
"'Grass House' has won numerous awards since its inception, and Grass House Paradise is a useful attempt for the high-quality development of cultural brands." Wang Yongbo, president of Jiangsu Children's Publishing House, believes that the grass house paradise combines nostalgia, literature, leisure and entertainment, and is a model for the integrated development of literary IP industrialization. Grass House Paradise adheres to the pursuit of the essence of beauty, and uses rich landscape experience to let children immerse themselves in the nostalgia and human feelings in the literary world. This kind of edutainment innovation allows deep literary feelings to be more widely disseminated, and it is also an effective way for today's publishing houses and publishers to cultivate new people of the times.
Wang Juan, secretary of the Yandu District Party Committee and mayor of the district, introduced the construction of the park
At the opening ceremony, Professor Cao Wenxuan talked about literature and hometown complex
For the significance of the Grass House Paradise, Zhang Mingzhou, chairman of the International Children's Book Alliance (IBBY), said that this is a hundred gardens of Chinese children's literature, and it will also be a literary paradise for children in the world, which will attract children's readers from all over the country and even the world to come to study happily, find the source of Cao Wenxuan's children's literature, explore and appreciate the profound dialectical relationship between reading and writing, literature and life, literature and life, and get inspiration and different growth.
Cao Wenxuan donated his "International Hans Christian Andersen Award" medal and the manuscript of "Grass House" to the permanent exhibition of the Paradise Literature Museum, and donated 800,000 yuan of children's literature books free of charge
Opening ceremony
"Taking reading interest as the starting point and exploring experience as the means to be influenced and rewarded in participating in diversified cultural activities is what children and parents like to hear, and it is also in line with the current development trend of reading +." Sun Zhu, president of the China Children's Press and Publication Corporation, hopes that Caofang Park will become a cradle for more children to cultivate their interest in reading, a garden for comprehensive quality expansion, a space for cultivating aesthetic sentiments, and a starting point for letting go of literary dreams.
Yau Ma Tei Primary School
Interior view of Yau Ma Tei Primary School
At the opening ceremony of The Grass House Park, Cao Wenxuan talked about the hometown complex of his works. "Literature and hometown is an eternal topic. For me, my hometown is the foothold of my literary creation. If my writing is successful, it is that from the very beginning I realized the meaning of my hometown and used it as a resource for my writing. If my work is a unique landscape of Chinese literature, it is because my hometown is unique. ”
On the same day, Cao Wenxuan transferred his "International Hans Christian Andersen Award" medal and the manuscript of "Grass House" to the Grass House Paradise Literature Museum for permanent display, and at the same time, he also donated 800,000 yuan of children's literature books to the Grass House Paradise Literature Museum free of charge.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Shi Guangquan Fan Mu Xiaozi
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