Straw House is a children's book, which describes the unforgettable primary school life of a boy named Sang Sang. Through the description of the personality characteristics, family background and study life of four students, the novel makes us feel the flawless innocence among children and the touching scene of students helping each other. Even if there are all kinds of injuries between classmates, the child's heart is still pure.
The bald crane is a bald child. As the days passed, the "bald crane" in grade six felt that his baldness made his classmates "laugh". The self-esteem was hurt, and the bald crane made an abnormal behavior for it. He didn't have to go to school to avoid the strange eyes of his classmates, wiped his head with ginger in the hope of growing hair after 7749 days, and tried to cover up his baldness with a hat. When all these made him fall into a worse situation, he simply threw his hat into the sky on such an important day as the "radio exercise" competition, which led to the loss of control of the whole school's radio exercise and missed the honor of "first place". "In this way, the crane retaliated against others' contempt and insult in its own unique way. "Even if the bald crane retaliates against other people's insults with such a serious mistake, the child is still innocent. He hopes to get everyone's recognition and respect through such a move. Fortunately, he still has a strong sense of collective honor. When there was a lack of a bald actor in their school's literary performance, he resolutely stepped forward and took on this important role, and he played this role meticulously and vividly. In the performance, Tuhe realized that only by doing good things for the collective can we get everyone's recognition and respect.
Every child's heart is pure, and their "unbearable smile" and "disgusting eyes" do not contain real "malice". They have experienced what is true purity from their children's world.
One is a disabled "bald crane", and the other is a beautiful "paper moon" that people can't help but want to protect. Paper Moon, just like her name, is a fragile product, with good handwriting, tears, laughter, tenderness, silence and stubbornness ... All these have brought inexplicable feelings to Sang Sang, and she can't help feeling inferior and antagonistic. All this is so real and beautiful in the author's description. Although Paper Moon is an illegitimate child, in the eyes of children, it does not affect the kindness and beauty of Paper Moon.
Children's world is pure, what is beautiful and what is good are all experienced from children's eyes.
Sima is an adopted son. In a strange world, she felt rejected by others and could not adapt to the new life. Facing the new life, he chose to escape. He refused to talk with his classmates, chose to associate with others and started his own free-range life. But deep down, children still want to communicate with their peers. When he can understand the local dialect, he uses clumsy "swearing and fighting", hoping to get "provocation" from others, so as to vent his jealousy of the children studying in the classroom. Although he instinctively rebelled against his adoptive parents, he still planned to escape from this place one day. The adoptive parents' home was flooded, the adoptive father died of illness, and the adoptive mother couldn't stand a series of blows and went crazy. Sima resolutely provoked the family and took on the responsibility of taking care of the foster mother.
Children's world is pure, and what is sadness and courage is realized from their actions.
Du Xiaokang's life has undergone earth-shaking changes, from the richest man in the village to debt-ridden overnight. Children really suffer too much. A child who wears clean clothes all day leads a carefree and responsive life. His life is envied by children, his academic performance is excellent, he has all kinds of snacks in his pocket, and he can ride an expensive bike through the children's playground. Such children must be the "king of children", enjoy supreme status and even play games. They are often the leaders of "generals" and "commanders". However, unexpected things happened and the rich life was destroyed overnight. Because the father's business failed, the child's sense of superiority was completely lost. It is certain that the child does not adapt, but he bravely endured it. After failing to accompany the father to release ducks in a deserted place. The father collapsed, but the child bravely stood up, inherited his father's business and set up a stall at the school gate.
The world of children is pure. From their actions, they realized what is responsibility and what is strength.
Cao Wenxuan is a writer who is determined to touch today's children with stories of "once" teenagers. It seems that it is not easy to make such a decision in China, and the screenwriter needs to write a follow-up article to show his mind.
Many successful writers in the world have this idea. Most of these writers mentioned above belong to this type. The teenagers written by Mark Twain and De Joan all have their own childhood marks, while Wilder and Tetsuko Kuroyanagi simply wrote their own stories. Cao Wenxuan also admitted in an interview with young Zhang Miao that the mulberry in the straw house "has its own shadow".
Cao Wenxuan 1954 was born in Yancheng, Jiangsu, and has lived for 20 years. 65438-0974 studied in Chinese Department of Peking University, and then stayed as a teacher. Now he is Professor Peking University and a doctoral supervisor of modern and contemporary literature. He is also one of the most important contemporary writers, and his achievements are not limited to the field of children's literature.
When he was a child, he lived in a poor village in northern Jiangsu. "It's hard to describe how poor he is in words." However, "although poor, that time was still very interesting and enjoyable." How enjoyable it is, you will naturally know after reading "Grass House". He recalled that in such poverty, the greatest hope was to have a bowl of dry rice and a bowl of braised pork at home. But when he left there, he found that "everything in the past is so precious, and every dust, every scene and every character there can enter the literary world."
In his juvenile novels, although people are short of material conditions, the living environment is picturesque in his works. He deeply recalled: "In my hometown, there are rivers and bridges everywhere. If you walk three miles, you have to cross at least five bridges. It turns out that the main means of transportation in our place is the boat, so when I am a little older, I will use bamboo poles to support the boat, paddle and paddle. "
The story of "The Grass House" happened in such a water town. The story begins with Sang Sang's first grade and ends with his 1962 primary school graduation. Those who are familiar with that period of history must know that it was the Great Leap Forward and the natural disasters in the next three years. But the story doesn't tell this history, only a quiet but not calm story of a water town primary school.
Sang Sang is the son of President Sancho. Sang Sang's home is on the campus of Yau Ma Tei Primary School, which is also a straw house.
Yau Ma Tei Primary School is a hut of the same color. More than a dozen straw houses seem to be regular, but they seem to be irregularly connected. They are used as classrooms, offices, teachers' dormitories or activity rooms and warehouses. Before and after these huts or between them, there are always some arrangements, or a bunch of two bamboos, or three or two roses, or a colorful canna, or simply a small piece of grass mixed with small flowers. These arrangements, without any intention, seem to have existed in this campus, which is what it is. ..... The grass house in Yau Ma Tei Primary School is exquisite and luxurious, and the grass selection is stricter than any other one here, and the roof is very thick. So in the grass house of Yau Ma Tei Primary School, it is warm in winter and cool in summer. This house, under the pure sky in the countryside, reveals a simplicity. And when the sun shines in the sky, the golden luster on the roof shines again.
Cao Wenxuan began his story poetically with fresh and elegant words. The whole novel focuses on the growth of the whimsical and mischievous Sang Sang, but it is not about him alone. Each chapter is independent, and it mainly tells the story of a child or an adult. Sang Sang has experienced some of them, and is also a spiritual recorder. As the characters clearly appear in front of our eyes, one story after another unfolds in turn, each develops and finally overlaps, as if we saw a slowly unfolding scroll painting. This is really an amazing picture of life!
I really don't want to repeat these stories in bad language. It is unwise to separate them. However, I cannot quote them here. Although the story told by Cao Wenxuan also has exquisite and meticulous structural design, the most touching thing is that kind of aesthetic feeling, which is rare in juvenile growth novels and brewed by the author with his own life perception and deep nostalgia complex.
Professor Zhang Meini, a critic of children's literature, has a wonderful comment, which I simply transcribe here:
"When we read this novel page by page, chapter by chapter, what shines in front of us is the brilliance of love and valuable personality. Try to see the pure friendship between Sang Sang and that girl and the true feelings he felt during his illness. Grandma Qin, who is infatuated with the land and almost pretentious, finally shows deep love for the primary school and primary school students who occupy her land; Disabled white-headed cranes defend the dignity of their own people without hesitation; The stubborn good horse swallowed his words, shouldered the burden of life and rebuilt his home for his adoptive parents when the property he could have inherited was gone; Du Xiaokang, who suffered family changes and fell into the trough of his life, struggled hard and persevered in adversity. This is related to our spirit of the times, which is sincere unity, fearless and enterprising, and also related to the cultural and spiritual value orientation of human beings to strive for self-improvement, develop themselves and create the future. This novel touched today's readers and will touch tomorrow's readers.
"The Straw House is Cao Wenxuan's masterpiece of pursuing eternity."
After the publication of this story about "once upon a time" teenagers, it won unanimous praise from critics on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. He has successively won the Bing Xin Literature Award, the National Book Award, the "Five One Projects" Award of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China, and the Best Reading Award jointly awarded by Minsheng Daily and Guoyu Daily in Taiwan Province Province. Based on this story, The Straw House also won the Best Screenplay Award in the 9th Golden Rooster Award, the China Film Observation Award in 1998, the 4th Cowboy Award and Film Critics Award, and the "Golden Butterfly" Award, the special prize of the jury in the 4th Teheran International Film Festival.
Since the publication of 1997, Grass House has been reprinted almost every few months, and nearly130,000 copies have been sold so far. Among the people touched by it, there are children aged eight or nine and old people aged seventy or eighty.