The Scarecrow was published in 1922 by Mr. Ye Shengtao, a famous educator in China. This is one of the earliest children's literature works in the history of China literature.

This work tells a series of human tragedies from the perspective of a silent scarecrow in a sincere, concise and clean style, which can be described as "the listener cries":

An old woman who lives alone works hard, but the rice field is infested with insects and is busy all year round;

The child was seriously ill and forced to make a living, but the mother had no time to take care of it and went fishing all night;

The caught crucian carp begged and begged, but it was still hard to escape the bad luck of dehydration and death;

A desperate woman was found dead at night. ...

The story is so sad, what good will it do for children to see such works?

Works like scarecrow are more likely to arouse children's feelings.

Think of a joke: the kindergarten has just started, and all the children are crying, but only one little girl doesn't cry. The teacher was anxious and finally stopped the children from crying. At this time, the little girl said, "Mom and Dad don't want you", which made the whole class cry again.

When we are laughing, we may think, why doesn't that little girl cry? One of the reasons is that children lack emotional ability.

The so-called "emotional ability" is the ability to feel and understand the feelings of others. For example, you want to cry when you see others crying, and you are sad when you see others sad.

* * * Emotional ability is the core ability of emotional intelligence, and it is the password and key for a person to lead to the inner world of others.

A child with strong emotional ability can express his concern for others well, easily resonate with others' emotions, or actively respond to others' emotions.

Such children are more popular with classmates at school and can make sincere friends; At home, it is easier to establish a harmonious and intimate parent-child relationship with parents.

In a work full of tragedy and sadness, such as Scarecrow, children can easily enter the story situation during reading, and then sympathize with the hero's experience and sadness, thus enhancing their emotional ability.

Works like the Scarecrow can enlighten children to understand the suffering of life.

Do we still have the suffering in the Scarecrow in real life? For example, lonely old people struggle to survive, and mothers have to ignore their children for a living. ...

Yes! It's just that our children are still in the honey pot and know nothing about these external human sufferings.

However, they will grow up one day and have to face the ups and downs of life alone. No parents can protect their children for life.

Therefore, if a child is very young and ignorant, it is very meaningful to experience the human suffering that touches people's hearts and makes people cry in words.

Scarecrow opened a door for children to understand human sufferings, provided them with a completely different perspective from happiness, and urged them to think with their young hearts-why the people in the story are so pitiful! Thereby promoting children's intellectual growth.