Changsha Evening News Changsha, March 4th (All Media Reporter Huang Neng) Dare to fight hard and bloom youth. On March 3, the All-China Women's Federation held a commemoration and commendation conference to commemorate the International Women's Day in Beijing. The conference commended the 2023 National March 8th Red Flag Bearer Model, the National March 8th Red Flag Bearer, and the National March 8th Red Flag Collective. Among them, Tang Sulan, professor of the School of Liberal Arts of Hunan Normal University, chairman of the Hunan Provincial Writers Association, and chairman of the Changsha Federation of Literary and Art Circles, was awarded the National March 8th Red Flag Bearer.
As a children's literature writer, Tang Sulan's masterpiece "Stupid Wolf's Story" has sold more than 10 million copies and influenced two generations of children. She is affectionately called "Stupid Wolf Mother" by the children.
In 2023, Tang Sulan won the Outstanding Writer Award at the 35th "Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award". To date, she has authored and published more than 60 children's literature works, and has won national awards such as the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award, Soong Ching Ling Children's Literature Award, "China Good Books", and China Outstanding Publication Award. The works have been translated into English, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Russian, etc., and published in more than ten countries and regions overseas.
"For me, writing is a record of my life and a manifestation of my desire to create." Tang Sulan draws nourishment from traditional culture and folk tales, capturing the light of human nature in childhood rural memories and current urban life, wandering around Fairy tales, picture books, novels, dramas and other gardens in the kingdom of children's literature. She uses children's literature as it is, allowing the world to respond to the beauty of childhood, allowing children to open up their fantasies, and making children's books full of hope.
is a writer and a teacher. Tang Sulan is dedicated to her job. "Reading and Writing Classics of Chinese and Foreign Children's Literature" hosted by her was rated as a quality course by the Hunan Provincial Department of Education. The teaching results he participated in won the first prize of the 13th Hunan Province Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award. She leads students to go deep into social practice and uses literature to empower rural revitalization and intangible inheritance. The "Woyuan Ecological Fairy Tale Series" created by her students won the Changsha City "Five One Project" award and was selected for the Sixth China Education Innovation Achievements Public Welfare Expo. . She has made fruitful achievements in theoretical research on children's literature, and has published academic monographs such as "Landscape of the Soul", "History of Hunan Children's Literature", "I Fall in Love with Fairy Tales at First Sight", and "Research on the Development Trend of Chinese Children's Literature in the New Media Era". For his contribution, he won the Theoretical Contribution Award of the 6th "Jiang Feng Children's Literature Award" in December 2023.
"Although I have many identities, reading and writing have always been the core of my life." Tang Sulan said that as a university teacher, while teaching, I am also teaching myself. He likes being a teacher very much. It allows me to constantly absorb new knowledge and be with young people who are active in thinking.
Tang Sulan is also enthusiastic about public welfare. As a writer who came from a remote village, she understands the importance of education and reading for personal growth. In 2018, she donated 1 million yuan to establish the "Sulan Literature Award" at Hunan Normal University to support literary talents. She loves rural children. Since 2017, she has donated and built 25 "Sulan Bookstores" in remote poverty-stricken areas of Hunan and Jinsha, Guizhou, and donated 66,455 books worth 1,692,115 yuan. In January 2024, Tang Sulan donated another 500,000 yuan to initiate the establishment of the "Sulan Literature Education Award" in Qingshanqiao Town, Ningxiang City, to reward rural students with excellent academic performance and grassroots teachers who have taken root in the countryside.
She hopes to make children fall in love with reading and develop the habit of reading. "For me, what I have to do is to continue to sow the seeds of reading and creation. I believe that if the seeds are sown, they will eventually sprout and bloom."
In addition, Tang Sulan was awarded the title of "Young Literary Artist of Hunan Province with both Virtue and Art" , won the first-class merit of the provincial government, was awarded the "March 8th Red Flag Bearer" of Hunan Province, the "Furong Hundred Post Star" of the Hunan Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, and was selected as a "Cultural Master and Four Batch Talents" of the Central Propaganda Department, and a national "Ten Thousand Talents" Program" leading talents in philosophy and social sciences, enjoying special allowances from the State Council.
