Chapter 195 my expectation

The "June 1st" festival is coming, everyone should do a good deed for children.So, I would like to ask many young and middle-aged writers (excluding children's literature writers): Do you want to do something good that is not too big or too small? Comrade editors of the People's Daily Literature and Art Department asked me to "call on" young and middle-aged writers, especially those who have become famous, to write for children, and to produce at least one work.This reminds me that thirty years ago, the People's Daily published an editorial dedicated to the development of children's literature creation and publication.At that time, the Chinese Writers Association also made a call and deployment, and indeed many writers contributed a large number of good works for children and young people.I am asked to "call" today, I have self-knowledge, how can I have the qualifications to "call"!Calling me "appeal" is also very boring, because some of you are already famous writers, and there must be a lot of people in the market. I don't know how many newspapers and publications appeal to you for manuscripts. After hearing too much, they don't take it to heart.I really want to use "my challenge"

As the title, but "when the water comes to cover the soil, the soldiers will meet when they arrive", what ability do I have to challenge? I remember a famous person once said: "If you want to hear the warbler, there are only two ways: one is to make it cry, and the other is to wait for it to call." Not funny, but there is still a way to wait. I admire many young and middle-aged writers from the bottom of my heart, whether they are male or female, familiar or unfamiliar. Many of your works are so real, so vivid, so touching.The reformers, new types of workers, peasants, soldiers, intellectuals you wrote about all stood up from the paper, leaving a very unique and deep impression on me.Forgive me for not writing the titles and names of people one by one here.However, what makes me very regretful is that the central character of your works is rarely a child, a teenager in the 1980s. Why?

Do you have no life?Are there no young children around you?Have you not had contact with children?I don't think this is possible.Even if you haven't become mothers and fathers yet, at least you have been aunts, uncles, uncles, and aunts. The reason why you don't write about children is because you feel that children's lives are too ordinary? There are no contradictions, no struggles, and very few twists and turns.Some comrades may think that it is not worthwhile for a writer who has won the love of readers with his masterpieces to use a sledgehammer to cut chickens. I said, that's because you haven't gone deep into their lives, and your contact with children may be relatively shallow.Some comrades may think that pulling a child over to pat him on the head, touching her shoulder, and asking, "What's your name?"

"How old is it?"If they take these gifts, say "thank you" and walk away, then you will be shut down by them!If he takes a small gun, he wants you to aim it with him; if she takes a doll, she wants you to bathe it with her; See; take the chocolate, put one in your mouth first, and you've stepped into the threshold of their lives. Their world is very wide!They have their macrocosm, when he points you to a shooting star; they have their microcosm, when he squats and watches ants fight.They have extremely careful observations and delicate feelings about all the people (parents, mothers, teachers, friends) and things (flowers, birds, insects, fish) around them.They have great self-esteem, but also a deep sense of inferiority.They also have conflicts and struggles in their hearts.They have hopes and fantasies, they will be ecstatic, and they will also suffer from insomnia; especially, they have extremely rich and novel yearnings and pursuits for the future and the year 2000. ...In short, once you agree with them, sit on an equal footing, and see everything around you from their eyes, you will find that this world is much richer, taller, and full of poetry and drama than adults.

Our young and middle-aged writers, why don't you bend down, hold the children's hand, and enter their world together.Why don't you try your hand at it, and describe a child around you with your special humor, sharpness, meticulousness, and vigor like rafters.I don't ask for a huge novel, as long as you write one or two thousand words, or even only a few hundred words, let people read it and feel that there is a new generation of socialist China in the 1980s standing in front of us, and I will be with you. Together with hundreds of millions of children, I am grateful. May 12, 1984