Chapter 126 Preface to "Selected Works of Lao She's Children's Literature"

The editor of "Selected Works of Lao She's Children's Literature" asked me to write a preface for this collection. Although I was in a bad mood after being ill, I accepted this task without hesitation! Mr. Lao She is a writer who loves children, and he always maintains a clear childlike innocence.Among our friends, he is the one who can talk to the kids the most.Whether it is a joke or a serious talk, he always sits on an equal footing with the children and speaks the most truthful and heartfelt words.Reading his children's literature works is like hearing him talking and laughing with our children from the sidelines. They are so agile, vivid, and humorous with deep truth.

Ten years of catastrophe, for us, the biggest blow is the death of Mr. Lao She!If he is still alive today, he will definitely write something newer and better than this collection under the great call of "building the four modernizations and revitalizing China". But the publication of this collection can at least let the current children see such a dazzling flower in the garden of children's literature, let them start with the interest of reading this collection, and then read Mr. Lao She's many works. Many other novels, essays, screenplays, also about his life and his death.After liberation, he wrote many articles praising the new society and new atmosphere with "ecstatic" mood. ① "Selected Works of Lao She's Children's Literature", Xinlei Press, first edition in 1986.

Zhang, who was on his vigorous creative path, was persecuted.I hope that the masters of our future China in the 1990s will ensure that this kind of "self-isolation from the people" will never happen again in our thriving motherland!