What kind of persistence is it to write "Fairy Tale King" alone for 36 years? "I'm 66 years old now, and I still have three or four ideas a day, like I've had ideas since I sat here." Zheng Yuanjie answered.
Shukbeta, Pipilu and Rusisi... He once used his pen to build a huge fairy tale kingdom, and when the young readers grew up, they found that those fairy tales that looked advanced and somewhat rebellious were actually telling the truth of adulthood.
And now, he has become the "top stream" in another way, he queues up to send blessings to netizens, answers life's confusion, does not pay attention to the big truth, and the comment area seems to have become another fairy tale paradise. People say that he has frequent golden sentences, and he has concluded with the experience of writing hundreds of books, which is actually called "spending money like dirt".
In this National Day file, Zheng Yuanjie's "Pipilu and Lusisi's Canned Villain" appeared on the big screen, which is the first time his work has been changed into a live-action movie, about fairy tales, about education, about 5G surfing, what does he say?
Here's what he had to say:
Zheng Yuanjie. Source: Courtesy of respondents
I would love to tell my child about the sense of equality
"Canned Villain" was written in 1984, in 1984 in Beijing still can not eat meat casually, need paper meat tickets, but at that time I already had Zheng Yaqi (Zheng Yuanjie's son), I think I should eat more meat, good for his physical development, lunch meat canned meat does not need meat tickets, so I often buy him this kind of canned food.
I measured my mental age a few years ago, 6 years old, so I would be curious when I saw anything, and I opened the can and suddenly thought what would happen if the meat in the can evolved into five little people? And then it's distracted.
Mind-wandering is the most I did since I was a child, and when I was in school, I was often told by the teacher, I think this is a good story idea, take a paper and pen to quickly write it down, and then write it out.
Writing is based on my own experience, because my parents have never scolded me, so from a young age we strongly feel that one thing is equality, children and parents are equal, people should respect others, others should also respect you.
But when I grew up, other children told us that their parents beat him, and after going to school, they found that teachers could not treat everyone equally, so when I was writing, I wanted to tell my children about this sense of equality, and I thought that they knew through this story that the world should respect each other, so they felt that "ahead" or whatever, in fact, it should be because of such ideas running through the work.
A good work in the real sense should not be divided into children's literature and adult literature, its value is the same, and when a children's literature work is shown to children, the creator must think of his parents and grandparents to see.
I think Chinese children need good stories. A lot of fairy tales don't have a story, in fact, movies are the same, why do I think I'm satisfied with the movie "Pipilu and The Canned Villain of Rusisi", not everything I adapt is satisfied, such as "Shuk Beta" I think I am satisfied, "The Taming of the Rabbit" is satisfied, this satisfaction. I think the first thing is that it should be faithful to the original book and have a good story.
Stills from Pipilu and The Canned Villain of Rusisi.
I never "chicken baby", I excite myself
You may know that my son was tutored by himself, but my daughter was the one who sent her to school, she is a super bully, graduated from UCLA all-A this year, so I also ran with her for 12 years.
But I never said to my child that you have to work hard, I just said that Zheng Yuanjie you have to work hard, because you try to show him yourself. I wrote a copy of "Fairy Tale King" for 36 years, it was founded in 1985, Zheng Yaqi was born in 1983, I think how I educate this child, that is, I showed him how his father turned a poor and white family rich with a pen.
Education is considered to be management, education is not management, education is demonstration and guidance, because the most powerful ability of children is imitation, to show children, they must first work hard.
Writing a monthly magazine by oneself is really not a very simple thing, at that time, you have to write about 5,000 words a day, and you must submit a manuscript on the 1st of each month. It is impossible for me to write during the day, because I have always found that 4:30-6:30 in the morning will never let anyone come to me, and I will not eat, so I have been writing like this for 36 years.
So when my kids go to school, they finish their homework as soon as they get home, never saying it because they know. They'll ask you why you don't go to bed in the morning, and I'll say I've had a great day after I've done this.
Zheng Yaqi sometimes joked that at first I took him out on the bus, because the old man had no seat to sit on the ticket stand, and then the family had a motorcycle and a car. I remember when I bought the first car, I went to the brand, and the traffic police said to me, congratulations, you are the 100th private car in Beijing.
I said to my parents and parents that the secret to educating children is to close your mouth, lift your legs, walk your life path, demonstrate to your children, a hundred, you have become him.
I came into contact with some successful people, I observed them, in fact, people entered the competition from birth, competing for IQ, academic qualifications... In the end, the absolute competition is moral character, and if your moral character is not good, you are abandoning your previous achievements and losing everything.
So mom and dad really want to cultivate their children, first of all, to cultivate morality. Don't put garbage at the door, give way to pedestrians when driving, and you make him happy for a day.
Are there any extracurricular training courses to cultivate moral character? Unfortunately not, so I am particularly supportive of teaching them a lesson, because is it really 100 points that make the child's childhood 100 years old? It's brutal.
Zheng Yuanjie.
5G Surfing? It's all a child's credit
Last August, my granddaughter said to me, Grandpa, why don't you have vibrato? What do I call TikTok? Then she showed it to me, and then I drove it.
In fact, as an adult, you have children, you have relatives who have an age gap with you, in fact, a treasure descends from the sky, because he can let you accept a lot of advanced things. But after many people have children, they go deep into Baoshan empty-handed, he thinks he is the grandfather, think "I want to educate you", you are stupid, you are born in vain, you should learn from him.
You see I'm all driven by children, there are some new words, the granddaughter immediately told Grandpa, the previous paragraph is "Happy Planet", you know?
None of my self-media is taken care of by others to help me, and you can see every word, it is all myself.
I think so, it turns out that many children write to me, but I actually get back very little, because there are too many, and 80% of them have not even been demolished. Times have developed, they mom and dad letters I didn't read at the time, I was very guilty, now their children come to communicate with me, as just said, if I make a person on the crosswalk, he is happy for a day, I will also be happy for a day, this is happiness from the sky.
I reply to a message that he may be happy for a day, may remember this for the rest of his life, why don't I do this thing? And be sure to return seriously, so that he feels that life is at any time there may be a miracle happening. He believes in miracles, and he can wait for miracles and create miracles.
My books have been released for more than 40 years, and sales have never declined, increasing year by year, in fact, they analyze this reason for this reason, there should be two or three generations of readers. For children's book writers, two generations of readers should be gold mines, so I think I am also very lucky.
These readers, they grow up, they have their own children, two generations read the same works together, this kind of reading is also a joy, I think what I have to do is to live more, and then see three generations of readers read my books, four generations of readers read my books.
Now that young people have fewer and fewer children, I feel in crisis, because this is not a good thing for me, but I also feel that I should respect everyone's choice, because after the age of 18, it should definitely be that I can decide everything about myself, right?
Source: China News Network WeChat public account