Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass...
Every time I hear this song, I will unconsciously hum it, thinking of Hideko of "Seongnam Old Things", the innocent and cute little girl with big eyes.
"Seongnam Old Things" is a novel created by writer Lin Haiyin based on his own childhood experience, and then made into a movie and put on the big screen, through the eyes and mouth of a little girl, describing the joy, loneliness and expectation of children's childhood.
In the book, Xiao Yingzi insists on staying with Xiuzhen, who is a little insane, and makes friends with Xiao Guizi, who is abandoned and often beaten by her adoptive father, and feels sorry for the young people in the deserted garden who have to steal things for her brother to go to school.
Her kindness has changed the people around her, and has also touched a batch of readers and audiences.
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Yes, sometimes, a little kindness can change more, and maybe knock out a closed world.
Just like the picture book "The Story of Xiao Bi" that Xiao Nishi's parents recently read together, and "Old Things in Seongnam", it is impressive and related.
This book is a gift from Korean illustrator Song Jin-hyun to his daughter Song Kang.
He spent 2 years drawing in pencil a "special" friend of his childhood, Xiao Bi, the protagonist of the book, the little boy, who was bullied and lonely.
In the book, when "I" was very young, I didn't have to go to school and let go of myself every day with my friends.
There is a child named Xiao Bi who is very special, he has no friends, he does not speak, he is locked up at home in winter, and the other seasons is a person wandering in the woods, knocking his head with a branch as he walks.
The other children avoided him, never went into the woods to play with him, often laughing at him, some saying he was neurotic, some laughing at him as a fool, some calling him dumb.
Xiao Bi, what kind of illness did he get?
The author did not explicitly say, but compared with other small partners, he had a sympathy for Xiao Bido and was less afraid.
Sometimes, "I" would go into the woods and stay with Xiao Bi, and in the depths of the woods there were two small companions, Xiao Bi was no longer a terrible monster, and he had "I" as a friend.
However, as time passed, "I" began to go to school, Xiao Bi fell alone again, and he wandered alone in the woods. Some people also said that Xiao Bi's neuropathy would be contagious and could not be approached by him.
Originally not afraid of Xiao Bi's "I", forced by the pressure of classmates and the surrounding environment, also began to hide from Xiao Bi. When it rained through the woods, he didn't have the courage to walk over and hold an umbrella for his former friend, just hiding at home, silently worrying about Xiao Bi.
In the blink of an eye, decades have passed, and the little "I" has long since come of age, but the little Bi of that year has always been deeply imprinted in the mind and cannot be forgotten.
At that time, the cypress forest attached to the paper mill was very large. In a forest covered with conifers, there are houses for people to go to the paper mill, and my father is the manager of the power company, so our family lives in this house. But when the paper company went out of business, the people who lived in the company house dispersed, and the forest and Xiao Bi disappeared from my memory.
At the end of the book, it stops at "my" childhood, and Xiao Bi has not yet grown up.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether the unsociable child is autistic or has some physical disability. Importantly, because of his particularity, he has led to the verbal and behavioral violence imposed on him by his surroundings, causing him to be deeper hurt and more suspicious of himself, and to knock on his head with a stick every day.
As an adult, he became a famous Korean illustrator. Unfortunately, his own first child, "Dear Daughter Song Kang", which he wrote on the title page, was unhealthy, injured in the head from a young age, could only walk at the age of 7, and was as lonely and pitiful as Xiao Bi.
The growth process of his daughter made him feel again the difficulty of childhood, the child's cruel indifference, complex friendship, and even confusion and nothingness, which are real. So, he spent 2 years, using a pencil to draw the gray little Bi. In the world of black and white and gray, it seems that countless small bugs are crawling and moving, which makes people uncomfortable.
If you say,
The special children's picture book "Where is Happiness" that I read before is a pleasure in suffering, pointing out a joyful direction for blind children.
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Here, the author reveals his own scars and sprinkles salt on the wounds, hoping to wake up the love of the people around him and let the children get kindness.
I want you to see children with disabilities, but also marginalized children who can't fit into their peer groups. ——Song Zhenxian, author of "The Story of Xiao Bi"
I don't know how Xiao Bi grew up, nor do I know whether the author's daughter Song Kang was cured, but I hope that for special children, I can have more kindness, like our little Yingzi, to be tolerant and close, less suspicious and distant.
May every kindness have enough courage, may every child not have to grow up alone.
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