[Tianfu Culture·Happy Reading] Feng Jicai's "Spiritual Education" for Children-"All Things and Creatures: Feng Jicai's Prose for Children"

"All Living Things: Prose for Children by Feng Jicai" was recently published by Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House. This book is a frequent visitor to Chinese textbooks in elementary and middle schools—Mr. Feng Jicai’s tailor-made selection for children. It takes "nature" as the dominance, and writes plants, animals, seasons and unforgettable characters in childhood memories, etc., so that children can be beautiful Easy to understand, warm and sunny between the lines, to understand the true nature of nature-it was originally the closest to the child's nature, watering children's spiritual world with truth, goodness and beauty, supplementing children's "spiritual education" outside the "knowledge education" on campus .

50 beautiful writings of nature, 8 hand-painted illustrations

Treat every plant and every small animal tenderly and kindly

Feng Jicai and his children

Mr. Feng Jicai has been selected as a Chinese textbook for primary and secondary schools. It is rare among writers. He belongs to a long-lasting writer who is suitable for all ages and vulgarity. I started writing in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2018, there were still new novels published in the 70s. In the early 1980s, it became famous in the literary world with novels such as "God Whip" and "Tall Woman and Her Short Husband". However, he took the initiative to fade out of the literary world and turn to traditional cultural rescue work. He is still praised for his profound sense of mission; during this period, he did not completely give up writing. From time to time, he popped out one or two amazing short novels of strange people and prose There is no interruption in writing; more importantly, his works have an unexpected impact on another level, that is, entering Chinese textbooks, through the learning of generations of children, penetrates into the folks, deeply roots in the hearts of the people, and realizes the fundamentals of "wen" The social function and canonization in the sense, in Feng Jicai's own words: "The text often has the meaning of educating people and the nature of the model essay." This is also the special significance of Feng Jicai's works for children. In fact, Feng Jicai is a writer full of childlike innocence. His friend Wang Meng once said that he is "more like a child in spirit."

Children and Nature

The words of this "big boy" are mostly warm and sunny, especially when they touch the little creatures he prefers, they are all full of tenderness and innocence. He is very happy to discover and consider the beauty in reality, which is very infectious. The earth conveys a kind of naive, optimistic, and upward power to people. This may be the reason why his works are often selected as student textbooks. See how he wrote Heidi on the Alps: "Little Heidi squatted in front of the flowers, gently stroked the petals with her fingers, and muttered:'How are you? I haven't seen you for a long time, you are so cute!' It’s also like talking to a little rabbit or bird. It’s serious, devoted, and devoted. It’s so touching! Counselor Sun said that every morning when she gets up, she touches the young leaves of the young trees in front of her house. Again. "Children’s nature is closest to nature. Children should grow up in such an atmosphere. "Adults belong to society, and children belong to nature." Feng Jicai said. However, in the current growth environment, our children are farther and farther away from "nature". Perhaps what they need most is such "innocent education" to return to the child's nature and enrich their spiritual world. In Feng Jicai's view, "the root of education is spiritual education", "knowledge education" is important, but "spiritual education" is the root, that is, "always pay attention to watering the world with truth, goodness and beauty, sowing love and fraternity, and injecting emotion and harmony. Sense of justice and pure values; make this world of their souls beautiful, rich and healthy". The book "All Things and Living Beings" comes from this concept. Through pure texts, reading nature, cultivate children's beautiful, rich and healthy spiritual world. The whole book of

is divided into four parts: the first series "Gentle little creatures: the childhood of human beings are mixed with animals", the second series "Vegetable creatures: children belong to nature", and the third series "beautiful minds: children's first "Thinking about Life", the fourth series "Elves in Time: Those Invisible Envoys in the Process of Beauty". Many articles in the book, such as "Pearl Bird", "Flower Courage", and "Tiaoshan Gong", have been selected as compulsory education textbooks for many times. The beautiful and easy-to-understand texts have "educational significance and the nature of model essays". It is also equipped with 8 exquisite illustrations drawn by Mr. Feng Jicai to help the children experience Mr. Feng’s perspective on the four seasons and creatures.

In addition, Mr. Feng Jicai also has two classic collections of novels, "Three-inch Golden Lotus" and "Thanks for Life", which condensed his wonderful and easy-to-read "worldly strange man" stories. Among them, "Brush Li" and other articles were also selected for elementary school Chinese textbooks have a broad reading foundation among elementary and middle school students. They all belong to Feng Jicai’s stories for children, plus the three books of "All Things and Life" published this time.The book basically covers the whole of Feng Jicai's literary creation, and appropriately forms a set of Feng Jicai's books for children.

Wonderful reading:

"Pearl Bird"

is really good! My friend gave me a pair of pearl birds. Put it in a simple bamboo cage with a roll of hay, which is a comfortable and warm nest for the birds.

Some people say that this is a kind of bird that is afraid of people.

I hung it in front of the window. There is also a pot of unusually lush French spider plant. I covered the birdcage with long hanging spiders with small green leaves. They are as safe as hiding in a deep jungle; the sound of a flute comes from them, which is as thin and bright as a flute. It's extraordinarily relaxed.

Sunlight shines in from outside the window, through here, the countless nail-like lobules of Chlorophytum, half become black shadows and half are illuminated like jasper; mottled and flourishing. The shadows of the birds flickered faintly in the middle, and they were incomplete. Sometimes they couldn't even see the cage, but they saw their cute bright red mouths sticking out of the green leaves.

I rarely scratch the leaf vines to look at them, and they gradually dared to stretch their heads and look at me. We are just a little familiar.

...

it was far away from me. Seeing that I didn't hurt it, it approached it a little bit, then jumped onto my cup, bowed its head to drink tea, and then turned his face to see my reaction. I just smiled slightly, still writing, it let go of the courage and ran to the manuscript paper, bouncing around my pen tip, and the beating red paws chuckled on the paper.

I write calmly, silently enjoying the close affection of this little guy. In this way, it is completely relieved. Simply using the waxy, horny little red mouth, "click" pecked at my trembling pen tip. I stroked its delicate fluff with my hand, and it was not afraid, but pecks my finger twice in a friendly manner.

Once, it jumped into my empty teacup and looked at me through the transparent glass. It is not afraid that I will suddenly cover the mouth of the cup. Yes, I will not.

During the day, it accompanies me mischievously; when the sky is dark, it flies to the cage, twisting its round body, and squeezing the green leaves to get in.

One day, when I was writing at the desk, it actually fell on my shoulders. The pen in my hand stopped unexpectedly, for fear of running it away. After a while, I turned my head to see that this little guy fell asleep on my shoulders, his silver-gray eyelids covered his eyes, and his little red feet just covered the long hair on his chest. I lifted my shoulder slightly, but it didn't wake up, it was sound asleep! Smacking your lips, are you dreaming!

When I move the tip of my pen, my feelings flowed out: trust in

often creates a beautiful state.

Book Description:

"All Creatures"

Author: Feng Jicai

Publisher: Sichuan Art Publishing House

Publication date: April 2019