Chapter 90 Afterword to "Little Orange Lantern"

I agreed with Writers Publishing House to give me a collection of children's literature, but when I looked at the catalog of this collection, I felt ashamed. Not at the level of modern children's literature. When I started writing, I didn't think about writing children's literature.If there were novels like "A Year Away from Home" in my previous works, they were only written about children, rather than targeting children and writing them for children.What I really want to write for children is "Send to Young Readers" written in 1923, which is the "Children's World" column of Beijing "Morning News". Because I want to go abroad, I was invited to write travel notes for children. of.But those communications were not well written either.Because I still thought about the object when I first wrote, but later I only cared about expressing my feelings, and the more I wrote, the more "literary" it was, which was not in line with children's understanding, let alone thinking.

After liberation, in addition to translating and writing other short articles, I also wrote some things for children, for example, travel notes abroad.Children in New China have their mission of the times. I would like to tell my young readers what I have seen and heard about the customs and habits of various countries, people's lives, their people's yearning for New China, and their love for peace. They always commemorate the peace-loving people in many countries in the world, and prepare to be with these people and fight bravely for lasting peace—there are many such themes in this collection, "Resend to Little Readers" , also started before my trip abroad.

I love children, and I always feel happy when I am with them, especially when I am with modern Chinese children. I think they all have the happiest future and the broadest field to display their talents to serve the people.At the same time, they also need the most careful education and training.Although I don't write specifically for children now, and my writing of children's literature is compared with the younger generation of writers, and it can even be said that I am still in the learning period.But I am willing to continue to work hard to improve my political and artistic level, hoping to write more things that meet the needs of Chinese children under the guidance of the party's children's literature policy and with the help of readers.December 26, 1959