Walking through the square dance team, you can always hear a song that sings like "Moon moon you don't sleep, confused people are drunk", people in insomnia, inevitably look up at the sky. In the quiet of the night, only the moon accompanies him, so he will pour his mind into the moon. Perhaps no one has ever heard more acacia and prayer than the moon, and late-night thoughts are always more real and more touching because of the truth.
"Swallowtail Butterfly and Moon" is a story related to the moon. The protagonist of the story is a swallowtail butterfly mother, but sadly, it has to face the reality of saying goodbye to the world at the beginning of the story, but it prays to the moon and entrusts its eggs to the moon, those children who have not yet been born, entrusted to the bright moon in the sky, the moon hears, but the moon cannot satisfy her, because all things have animism, everyone has a life, and so do the little bugs.
The reversal in the fairy tale did not appear, the mother swallowtail butterfly was eaten by the praying mantis, and she could no longer see her child hatching and growing. The moon is sad, and the reader is in tears, but life goes on.
Heaven and earth are wrapped in sadness and anticipation. Mother Swallowtail's children follow the evolutionary journey of life, one by one, drilling out of the egg shell, just like the caterpillars we usually see.
Of course, all this is known to the moon in the sky. Her heart, one head provoking the instructions of the swallowtail butterfly mother, the other looking after the life of these little caterpillars, there is the joy and hope of birth, nature, but also the worry about nature's weak and strong.
The moon knows everything, it has followed the earth for tens of millions of years, and the survival and destruction of all things in heaven and earth have long been strange, but this time, because she heard the prayer of the mother swallowtail butterfly, she suddenly had worries and worries, look, this is what we call concern is chaotic, the heart is confused, and the scene of the world in the eyes has changed.
What has become of it?
The vast world is never seen again, all that is seen is: have the little bugs on the branches been discovered by predators, where are they hiding in the rain, will the children play pranks and use them as playthings, they are so delicate, there are so many natural enemies, can they survive? How many of them will survive forever?
I don't know, the moon has no more to do than look and worry.
The course of the story is tortuous and even sad, and there are many children who cannot read the story because many caterpillars have died tragically at the hands of predators. But, just like the box that Pandora opened, although all the evil poured out, but at the bottom of the box, there was hope lurking, and the ending of the story was beautiful, a swallowtail butterfly successfully hatched, and the beautiful butterfly reappeared, and it stood on the branch, almost the same as its mother, but only the moon knew that it was the mother's child, a new life.
Life begins the next cycle, even if disappointment comes once and for all, hope and new life will come as scheduled in the torment, just like the song in "But the Human World", "Life is just a bunch of thoughts, surviving this difficult day, thinking about it is just like this." ”
Reading the end of the story, I have tears in my eyes, if the swallowtail butterfly mother sees this scene, she will also wipe her tears, and its soul can dissipate in heaven and earth with peace of mind. There is nothing more reassuring for a mom than watching her child grow. Maybe it will also look up at the sky, look at the bright moon, and say thank you to it. If the moon hears it, it will emit an even brighter light to illuminate the earth!
We have to admit that the cycle of life is unstoppable, "Swallowtail Butterfly and Moon" shows a gentle and implicit view of life and death in the Eastern world, swallowtail butterfly mother's affection for her child, it is delicate, it goes deep, the author writes the helplessness of life evolution to write a sad aesthetic, but it is mournful but not sad, and in silence gives us the strength to bravely face the passing.
In recent years, growing parents have begun to reflect on whether there is a lack of life education in their children's education. We can happily introduce the birth of life to our children, but we don't know how to tell them what death is. Maybe it's because we're afraid, we're resisting, or we don't know how to deal with it.
You may wish to take "Swallowtail Butterfly and Moon" as an opportunity to tell children how life is born and dies through the life course of a butterfly, what problems it will encounter in the process of growing up, and when it has to face those "natural enemies" and the laws of nature, bravely face it than retreat there will be more opportunities to survive.
Of course, we can also take this book as a popular science book, which shows us the process of hatching swallowtail butterfly eggs, in fact, the science in the story is more "silent", such popular science education seems to be the number of music, eliminating boredom, only listening to the melodious melody, so that children unconsciously know how to "break the cocoon into a butterfly" is completed.
The moon, in this story, has always existed, but it has always been a bystander. Like it said on its own, she couldn't do anything. However, she actually did a lot, she became a attentive bystander, and she recorded the growth of the swallowtail butterfly. She also provides us with a sample of how to care for others, in fact, she could have been indifferent, could have turned a blind eye, could have laughed at how little life has so many things.
How important is compassion, empathy, to a person? The meaning of its existence may not be all for the sake of others, it will also have emotional feelings for individuals, because we have been sad, so we can feel the sadness of others, because we have worked hard for the goal, so we will care about whether others are exhausted on the road running. Each of us is not an island, we are emotionally connected to those around us, and through the moon's reaction, we teach our children empathy, which is much more effective than telling them to care for others a thousand times.
The portrayal of the moon in the book can see the intention of the illustrator, the moon has an expression, the moon has a round deficiency, the moon will be powdered, and the moon has mood and anger. The moon represents time and vaguely tells us that as long as you don't flinch, time will give you everything you want.
Zhang Rongfu, the author of the story, said in his message that this story took him two years to conceive. "I believe that living individuals can feel warm love from the gaze of others," he said. "It is precisely for this reason that we hope that everyone can get the care of others and can get warm to love."
After all, whether for people or swallowtail butterflies, living is only the instinct of life, and what really makes us feel that life is meaningful is always the moment when we are cared for, cared for, and needed, it can be said that this is our real value in this world.
A book that teaches children life education and love education, "Swallowtail Butterflies and the Moon" - given to children, more touching adults.