Chapter 3 Talking About Children's Prose Creation

The editorial department of "Youth Literature and Art" has been asking me to write an article "On Children's Prose Creation", but I always feel that I can't write anything.Since I have already written on the title "On Prose" (see last year's publication), that is all I can say.As for children's prose, of course it is prose written for children, and we should pay attention to the characteristics of children, which seems to be known to everyone.I always feel that explaining a thing cannot be just empty and abstract.Without a real object as an "example" (I avoid using terms like "model" or "model" here, because they all have the suspicion of "typical"), the speaker will not be able to explain why, and the listener will not be able to understand Marginally, especially with regard to creation, we have to talk about the creation process in detail. As for whether the theme is well selected, whether the material is cut and selected is concise, it can only be judged by the readers.

A few days ago, I wrote an article "Children's Truth" for the supplement "Square" of "Beijing Daily".While my memory is still fresh, I might as well share the material of this article and my conception process with you. First of all, I think writing for children, though the object is small, has a great significance, because children are the buds of a big tree, and works for children must inspire their noble and beautiful sentiments, and what they describe must be theirs. The things that are contacted and cared about in daily life, and can be understood and accepted.So I really like the article by the French writer Daudet. He wrote it with emotion and reason. After reading it, it makes people grateful and excited, and I will never forget it!

The "Fourth Five-Year" Movement was a great movement that shook the world and the mountains and rivers. Many authors have described various aspects of this great movement in various literary forms.Not only are many good works produced now (the drama "In the Silent Place" is an example), but there will continue to be many good works in the future, resulting from this. In the few days after Premier Zhou passed away, I only participated in the farewell ceremony to the Premier Zhou's body and the meeting to mourn the Premier in the Great Hall of the People. I did not go to Tiananmen Square.But the young people and children in the family go there almost every day.A child came home and said excitedly, "There are tens of thousands of unlocked bicycles parked in Tiananmen Square, and no one stole them. It's a miracle. The Prime Minister changed people's hearts for the better!" Words are spoken with emotion.When the "Gang of Four" was rampant, the laws and regulations were shattered, and stealing a car was still a trivial matter in the law and discipline!But children often encounter and hear such "little" bad things, and they are heartbroken!Because he saw thousands of unlocked bicycles that were not stolen, he was surprised, comforted and joyful, and had hope, thinking that there was an upright and upright figure like the Prime Minister guiding him, Our "people's hearts" will "become better", and the future of our society is bright and bright.

It's been two years, and the child's words are always circling in my mind. Before the new year, an editor of the supplement of "Beijing Daily" came to see me and asked me to write a short article for "Square" commemorating the third anniversary of Premier Zhou's death.But there are too many good articles commemorating the Prime Minister, and there are too many touching stories about the Prime Minister. When I promised her, I was not sure what to write.Only on New Year's Day, I talked about "Tiananmen Poetry Transcripts" with a friend, which aroused my "idea".I put together some facts and wrote this article.As for the materials: it is a fact that many friends came to celebrate the New Year on New Year’s Day; it is also a fact that I made a copy of "Tiananmen Poems" for a friend; But he wrote not one, but three!At the same time, it was not his father who lost his new bicycle, but a friend of mine (although a bell was lost on his good new bicycle); it was not his mother who took him to Tiananmen Square that time, It was his aunt.I let his father lose the car, and his mother took him there, just to make the atmosphere more "compact" and "friendly".

This method of writing a complete story with the parties or a third person, I have done it before.In the 1930s, I wrote "Dong'er Girl" (see "Bing Xin's Novels and Prose Collection"), in the 1970s, I wrote "Yixi Quzhen's Words" (published in "Beijing Youth"), and "Ulan Tuo" Ya's Words" (published in "Tianjin Literature and Art"). There is a poem in the ancients, "Mandarin duck embroidery is up to the king, and the golden needle is not given to others." What I embroider is not a dazzling mandarin duck, and the needle in my hand is not a "golden" needle!But I did tell my acupuncture method.Because no matter how good someone else's article is, I can only appreciate it, and I can't explain the creation process for him.January 8, 1979