Chapter 19 The Times Calls for Excellent Children's Literature (Preface)

one The prosperity of children's literature is the call of the times, the voice of hundreds of millions of children and their parents, and the earnest expectation of the Party Central Committee.General Secretary Jiang Zemin regards the prosperity of children's literature and art as one of the "three major tasks" for the prosperity of literature and art.In his letter to Shanghai Animation Film Studio, he said earnestly: "Children are the hope and future of the Chinese nation. The historical task of realizing the third strategic goal of my country's socialist modernization will ultimately fall on this generation of children. It is the historical responsibility of literary and art workers to help them establish a lofty ambition to contribute to the overall revitalization of the Chinese nation and cultivate them into socialist newcomers with ideals, morality, culture and discipline. "We must start from cultivating The builders and successors across the century must improve the ideological, moral and cultural quality of the Chinese nation to the historical height and the height of the times, and be soberly aware of their glorious responsibilities. Look at your work.2019 will be the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and 2010 will be the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.The current middle school students are in their thirties at that time. They have to take over and become the backbone of various positions. Whether they can inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of the older generation and whether they can hold high the banner of socialism is very important.Let today's children know that China is hard-won today; from the beginning of this century to the end of the century, China has undergone profound historical changes under the leadership of the Communist Party of China; we are gradually establishing a socialist system with Chinese characteristics , perfected.By 2049, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, we will build China into a powerful modern socialist country. The party and the people are working hard step by step to achieve this goal.Let today's children understand the historical responsibility they shoulder in realizing the grand goal of national rejuvenation and national prosperity.

It is necessary to integrate the fine traditions of the Chinese nation for thousands of years and the fine traditions and noble characters formed by the Chinese Communists and the people of the whole country during the war years into the temperament of this generation of children and cast them into their souls. Children's literature has an irreplaceable subtle influence. role.A good book, a typical image of an era, can often affect a person's life.Our children's literature writers need to understand today's children, create more typical images of contemporary children who love the motherland, love the people, love science, love life, yearn for the future, have the courage to pursue, are intelligent, innocent and lively, and become "moral characters" that inspire the majority of children. As a model and friend of all-round development of children's literature, intelligence, body and beauty, our publishing industry should make great efforts to create good conditions for children's literature writers and promote the publication of children's literature masterpieces.

After understanding these principles, the question of where children's literature should be placed in the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and what position it should be placed in various literary categories will be easily solved.Some people say that children's literature is "pediatrics", and "pediatrics" is glorious! "Pediatrics" can produce great writers and great works.Andersen's fairy tales have become treasures of world literature; Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn opened up a new direction for American literature and influenced a generation of writing style.Children's literature should be placed first among all literature categories.Children's literature writers should not underestimate themselves. Many old writers have written for children all their lives.This spirit is worth advocating. No matter what difficulties and setbacks we encounter, we must persevere. The creation has the characteristics of the times and the nation, close to the hearts of contemporary children, healthy in thought, interesting in knowledge, artistically attractive and appealing. masterpiece.

two The set of "Chinese Children's Literature Gold Award Bookstore" launched by Writers Publishing House, takes the prosperity of contemporary children's literature as its own responsibility, and plans to release a batch of excellent children's literature masterpieces.The first batch of "Qin Wenjun's Novels Series" was released. Qin Wenjun's book ranked first among the 19 winning works in the 3rd Children's Literature Awards of the Chinese Writers Association.It and its companion volumes are excellent children's literature works worthy of our era. There are three main reasons for the success of these two novels: one is the distinctive characteristics of the times, the other is the vivid image of teenagers, and the third is the strong characteristics of children's literature. .Starting from the world of children, Qin Wenjun shows the very complicated external world faced by today's teenagers and children from the perspective of children's observation of life.A series of problems faced by middle school students in cities today appeared in front of the protagonists Jia Li and Jia Mei.For example, how to know "singer star" and "movie star", how to view money and "part-time job", how to strengthen the family relationship with parents and the friendship between classmates, and how to solve the problems of smoking and puppy love among junior high school students. It is a new problem faced by middle school students in the 1990s.The work does not avoid contradictions, but focuses on the growth process of contemporary teenagers and children gradually overcoming their own weaknesses in the intricate real life, from childishness to maturity, and gradually becoming stronger.Because the author has accurately grasped the aesthetic perception of the life of the times that the contemporary urban young readers get from it, he naturally understands what to yearn for and what to pursue.I read, and involuntarily walked into the world of today's middle school students. Together with Jia Li, Jia Mei, Lu Zhisheng and other children, I experienced the ordinary but very interesting student life, and felt their joy and distress.These children are so smart and cute, so witty and brave.When encountering robbery by bad guys, dare to stand up.After subduing the criminals together with the police, he made up stories to promote himself, which is very humorous and makes people laugh.Because the work is full of comedy features, the structure is monotonous and clear, it fully absorbs the distinctive life language of contemporary middle school students, uses the different perspectives of brothers and sisters to describe the same thing, and the whole work is composed of small stories that can be independently written. With the fascinating characteristics of children's literature, it is not only welcomed by young readers, but also loved by adults and the elderly.Her other two works "Orphan Girls Club" and "Sixteen-year-old Girl" also have their own characteristics.

three In order to bring children's literature to a new level, we earnestly hope that all writers will conscientiously implement General Secretary Jiang Zemin's important instructions on the prosperity of children's literature, love the times, love children, love the industry, and create more for children to inspire them to work hard.Artistic images of healthy and growing contemporary children. To love the times requires a deep understanding of the times.Building a socialist theoretical system with Chinese characteristics has developed a series of important theoretical issues such as Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, what is socialism, and how to build socialism. Our writers, as engineers of human souls, should study "Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping" " as a compulsory course, and understand Deng Xiaoping's theory of literature and art, study political economy, philosophy, history and sociology, etc.To understand the era, we must grasp the essence of today's social life and firmly grasp the three "subjects" of our era.In terms of form of ownership, socialist public ownership is the subject, which determines the basic nature of our society; the spiritual subject is Marxism and Deng Xiaoping's theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, which is our spiritual pillar and our banner.The representative subjects of advanced productive forces and production relations are workers, peasants, and intellectuals.Our literature should poetically express their great practice of creating their own new life.

To love children, we must go deep into young children, understand them, be familiar with them, and always maintain a fiery and pure childlike innocence.Qin Wenjun has been deeply involved in children's life for a long time, communicating with hundreds of middle school students, making friends, writing for them, and being their "confidant", which is why her works are full of innocence and childlike interest. Love this line, and take writing for children as a noble cause.Our children's literature writers, editors, and theoretical workers must have ambitions to become knowledgeable masters, to explore, to innovate, to advance, and to make a difference.It is necessary for one generation to be better than one generation, and it is necessary to show the ice heart of our era.I think Qin Wenjun has hope, as long as she persists in writing.

We also earnestly hope that the publishing industry will take more practical measures, unswervingly take the publication of children's literature masterpieces as its long-term task, and work tirelessly for the prosperity of children's literature. Strive to publish more books and good books for the majority of young and children readers, and continue to release excellent masterpieces of children's literature that children love to hear and see. Let us all work together to usher in the blooming spring of children's literature! Zhai Taifeng September 1996