Chapter 92 Chinese Children's Literature

China is an ancient country with 5,000 years of culture. This ancient country pays special attention to children's education and wants children to develop comprehensively and healthily.The purpose of "ritual, music, shooting, royal, book, number" in the ancient education curriculum is the same as that of "morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor" in the modern curriculum. Today's New China has a population of one billion, accounting for a quarter of the world's population.And there are 270 million children among China's one billion population. Whether they are mentally healthy and broad-minded is closely related to the future of human beings in the world.Therefore, China also pays special attention to children's literature.At present, there are nearly 2,000 people in the writers' associations across the country and in various provinces engaged in children's literature creation.In recent years, culture and art have developed rapidly.In the past ten years, he has filmed more than 70 children's films and won 24 international awards; there are more than 20 children's theaters across the country. In 1986 alone, CCTV produced 330 minutes of children's programs every week; national children's publications There are more than 190 kinds, and more than 2 million words of children's literature works are published every month.

I myself have never written fairy tales, children's dramas, etc. I only occasionally write letters to children.But it has been more than 60 years since I wrote "Send to Young Readers". I almost get one or two letters from children every day. They tell me about their studies and extracurricular activities, joys and sorrows... Most of them are their ideals; what kind of people they want to be, what kind of country they will be in the future, and what kind of world will their future world be like.Such a country and world is what they are determined to build.Their ideals, generally speaking, are the eight words "world peace and human progress": I deeply feel that these are all successful flowers cultivated by Chinese children's literature authors.I am even more proud because there are so many 270 million Chinese children in our country who take "world peace and human progress" as their future goal! June 1, 1987 Special Issue on Children's Literature.")