Poet Jin Bo wrote from the 1950s to today in the 21st century. In his poems, we cannot see the vicissitudes and desolation left by the changes in the world, but only see a quiet heart becoming more and more crystal clear in the long river of time. It reminds me of the words of the Russian poet Gippius: All the poems of all authentic poets are prayers.
In recent years, Mr. Jin Bo has started writing fairy tales while writing poetry. The poet's recent work "The Adventures of Wududi" is a prayer about life and love. Wu Didi, the little wooden boy, accidentally lost his puppet body. In the constant search, Little Feet experienced many adventures. If the growth process of Little Foot Wududi is a story dedicated to children, then the endless past of Mr. Yinchi who accompanied Wudidi in his search is a story sung by the poet and author to himself and all adults who believe in love. A soulful song. In the story, children and old people grow up together. It reminds people that growth does not only occur in a person's childhood. At every moment of our lives, growth leads us to a higher place in life in its own unique way.
The "sonnet garland" carefully woven by the author is the highlight of this fairy tale. Jin Bo's 15 sonnets hover like rondos at the beginning of each chapter. This lyric style, which was born in the Italian folk in the 13th century, enjoys a high status in the minds of future generations through the creation of talented poets such as Petrarch, Shakespeare and the Brownings. Due to the extremely high requirements on rhythm, it is also called "dance with shackles" by poets.
The theme poem is like the brightest pearl shining on the 14 surrounding poems, and like an invisible thread connecting the details in the fairy tale. In these beautiful poems, stories and past events one after another finally turn into vivid images, dancing in the hearts of readers. And we can finally say this: "The Adventures of Wududi" is a fairy tale for poetry. It provides an artistic practice that points to the poetic spirit of fairy tales in today's frivolous era. Although Mr. Jin Bo's mastery of narrative techniques is not yet perfect, we firmly believe that the poet's sincere prayer will pass through the hearts of children until their future lives.
Wudidui is a person who jumps around. He is the missing little foot of the puppet in the puppet show "Grandpa Bag". I can only speculate based on the encounters of these characters that people are incomplete. As long as we have ideals and beauty in our hearts, we will all get a pair of wings to fly and be able to show true humanity and the beauty of humanity.
Jin Bo's fairy tale "The Adventures of Wududi" brought me great surprise and comfort. This is the best fairy tale book I have read in recent years. Fairy tales are a literary style that should convey more knowledge and information about life experience, literary experience
and aesthetic experience to people. It should also allow us to see the true face of the author hidden behind the work, such as his writing attitude, artistic accomplishment, personality and spirit, and everything related. Jin Bo devoted several years to writing this short fairy tale book, which easily reminded me of Tagore's gardener. In this impetuous and noisy era, it is a rare gift to have such a pure and beautiful fairy tale come out. I am touched and grateful for it.
Jin Bo is a poet who likes to write exquisitely. He is shy to deal with things that are not beautiful. This is the conscience of literature. This book "The Adventures of Wududi" fully demonstrates his pursuit and persistence in this aspect. In a sense, it can also be regarded as an autobiography of the poet's mind and writing. In the book, the protagonist, the old poet Yin Chi (that is, Yin Lao), is a reflection of the poet's self. He examines the world with a poet's unique perspective, and understands and considers the world with great kindness and kindness. I have no doubt that there are elements of helplessness and compromise in the poet's confusion, but the poet's judgment on literature is very appropriate in handling it. At least, we see the truth of a poet's artistic life and the art of life. Many poems and children's songs are used in the article, which like beautiful gems enhance the artistic value of this fairy tale book.
This book is a moving landscape for us. Because all the lives in the book are flowing, longing, and searching... Even the toys on the poet's bookcase and the poet's wastebasket are living entities. It has flesh and blood and a soul. They both long for love or are looking for love. Yin Chi is looking for childlike innocence and childhood friendship. Wududi is looking for Zhen'er and Grandpa Butai, they are the embodiment of family love. The butterfly flies against the wind, showing loyalty and firmness to friendship. Yun'er grows frangipani flowers in search of understanding and dreams. The sculptor's incomplete artwork is in search of perfection and ideals. Everything is flowing. In the search of life, they gained a lot and lost a lot. When the wastebasket uttered philosophical verses that surprised the poet, the poet did not know that those words were once his discarded poetry manuscripts. This is not so much an embarrassment as it is a feeling of helplessness and emotion. The passage of time is not the main thing. What the poet wants to convey to us is an experience of life. There is beauty in the things we throw away.
The poet's imagination is soaring, so all the characters in the work are flying. Wu Didi is a person who jumps around. He is the missing little foot of the puppet in the puppet show Grandpa Bag. He comes from the land of Andersen and Collodi's texts.
There is no doubt that the poet does not reject lively fairy tales, he just likes beautiful things. It seems that all the characters in his works live and die for beauty. But what is incredible is that all the characters in his works seem to be physically and psychologically disabled. Wu Didi has a little foot, Zhen'er is a little girl on crutches, Yun'er is a little girl with low self-esteem, a poet, a sculptor... We can't see any sound and healthy characters. I can only speculate that people are incomplete. As long as we have ideals and beauty in our hearts, then we will all get a pair of wings to fly, and we can show true humanity and the beauty of humanity. Obviously, this is what the poet intended.
This fairy tale is full of idealism, romanticism and aestheticism. Not to mention how the poet's splendid and beautiful words moved us, but the psychology, pursuit, character, and language of those characters have already made us appreciate a kind of sad and beautiful beauty. This is a fairy tale full of life experience. This nostalgia is well represented in the writings of Graham, White, and Selden, and it is also brilliantly represented in Jimbo's fairy tale book. Wu Didi is a character full of symbols and metaphors, because he is a one-legged man. His jumping comes from instinct, or from the vitality of youth. However, he jumps for the sake of jumping. Under the guidance of the poet, he finally understood the meaning and value of Zhen'er and Grandpa Butai. He began to look for his family in a regression way. He rescued the dog and Jane from the fire, but the fire burned his body. When he found Grandpa Butai's home, he learned that Grandpa Butai died because of searching for him... Of course, the tone of the entire book is poignant and sad, with a tragic undertone.
This fairy tale book is poetry, prose, and music. It is also a fairy tale book that integrates various literary aesthetic elements. And those touching details that enable people to fully experience the warmth, warmth and changes of the world are undoubtedly elements of the novel. I believe that such fairy tale books are of excellent quality. Even though they are so rare, they are already a great comfort to me.
Summary of content
The first feature of Jin Bo's "The Adventures of Wududi" worthy of appreciation and praise is its profound philosophical connotation. In addition to accurately and concisely expressing people's lives and hearts, good literary works should also express the writer's deep thinking and speculation about life, life, life, and the world. In my opinion, the highest realm of fairy tales is poetry, and the highest realm of poetry is philosophy. Jin Bo's "The Adventures of Wududi" is a poem, a philosophical poem. Its philosophical connotation includes two aspects: first, profound children's philosophy. Although children are physically smaller than adults and physically weaker than adults, they have their own philosophy of life, their own spiritual world, independent personalities, and equal life value and meaning as adults. In "The Adventures of Wu Didi", Mr. Jin Bo expressed his love for the egg-growing girl Yun'er by narrating how Yin Lao took Wu Didi to find Grandpa Budai and Zhen'er. The importance of children's lives and the care of children's innocence. Story: The ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu pointed out that the ultimate goal of human life is to "return to a baby" and have a pure and simple childlike innocence. Li Zhi of the Ming Dynasty also believed: "A man with a childlike heart is sincere." The essence of children's literature is to express, praise and protect childlike innocence. Almost every word in "The Adventures of Wududi" is filled with childlike innocence, reflecting the writer's emphasis on children's spiritual life. The second is the profound philosophy of love. "The Adventures of Wududi" also reflects Mr. Jin Bo's deep love. The book expresses at least three kinds of love: one is the love for his mother. For example, in the book, Yin Lao dreams about his mother many times, and Wu Didi's feelings for Grandpa Butai all show his attachment to his parents. The second is the love of life. For example, when "Wudidui" felt sorry for himself because he only had one foot, Mr. Yin's encouragement to "Wudidui" who jumped on one leg actually expressed the writer's love for life; another example is, The butterfly looking for roses against the wind is a symbol of the writer's love for life. There are also descriptions of the sculptures of the sculptor and the flute girl, which also express the writer's call for true love between people. Third, "The Adventures of Wududi" fully reflects the author's love for children. It is these three kinds of love that constitute Mr. Jin Bo's broad and touching philosophy of love, and also make "The Adventures of Wududi" not only a fantasy text, but also a signpost with profound vitality: it marks the direction of life, Showing the power of humanity.
"The Adventures of Wududi" has two aspects of artistic innovation: First, it is the practice of dream poetry. Reading this fairy tale reminded me of the French poet Jean. Fulan's poem: In the wilderness of his eternal childhood, the poet lingers alone and does not want to forget any bit. In "The Adventures of Wududi", Mr. Jin Bo tries to reimagine childhood in the way of dreams to resist forgetting the past. The French philosopher Bachelard once said this: "As the years grow older, the memories of childhood make us have delicate emotions, with the 'smiling annoyance' like the poet Baudelaire in the vast atmosphere. In this poet In the "smiling annoyance" we experience, we seem to have achieved a strange synthesis of annoyance and comfort. "Childhood is deep in our hearts, still in our hearts, and always in our hearts. It is a state of mind." Mr.'s fairy tale is to use dreams to create the past and touch childhood with dreams, and his dream is to create the future and create a new state of life. The second is an attempt to write poetics across genres. "The Adventures of Wududi" is a beautiful fairy tale, but it is also a graceful and tender lyric poem.
It is a story, and it is connected by "sonnets" into a strange "garland" - the fourteen chapters of the story, the last line of the sonnet that opens the previous chapter and the ending line of the sonnet that opens the next chapter. The first line is the same, and the concluding sonnet is composed of the first lines of the sonnets of the previous fourteen chapters. This is a unique "poetic fairy tale" that embodies Mr. Jin Bo's consistent aesthetic style and romantic charm in his creations.
It is precisely because of the above aesthetic characteristics of "The Adventures of Wududi" that it has two aspects of aesthetic inspiration for the creation of children's literature: First, it proves that children's literature should pursue the spirit of treating goodness as beauty. high. Mr. Jin Bo has always believed that children's literature should give children love and make their hearts pure, kind and beautiful. When elaborating on the aesthetic connotation of children's literature, Professor Wang Quangen also believed that adult literature regards "truth" as its beauty, while children's literature regards "goodness" as its beauty. "The Adventures of Wududi" implements the aesthetic principle of "taking goodness as beauty" in children's literature. Second, it shows that the creation of fairy tales should not only promote fantasy, but also promote compassion. The charm of "The Adventures of Wududi" not only comes from fantasy, poetry, and love, but also comes from the writer's deep compassion. Compassion is an emotion that is more contagious and penetrating than love. It is the best element that makes children's literature and even all art evergreen.
This is a beautiful fairy tale. Wu Didi gained life because he could bring happiness to children. He cherished the preciousness of life and knew how to nourish life with love to make it more vivid and interesting. Love also made the friendship between Wu Didi and the old poet become more vivid. sacred.
About the author
Jin Bo was born in Beijing in July 1935. He began literary creation when he was in college. Published poetry collections "Echo", "Green Sun", "My Snowman", "Between You and Me", "Moonlight Night in the Forest", "Tree in the Wind", "Flowers with Rain", "We" Go see the sea - Jin Bo Children's Sonnets" and more than ten works; fairy tale collections "Little Leaf Fairy Tales", "Golden Conch House", "The Adventures of the Apple Man", "Eye Tree", "Shadow Man", "White Castle", "Chasing the Little Green Men" and many other works; in addition, he also published essay collections "Waiting for a Good Friend", "Waiting for You to Knock on the Door", and "Thanks for the Past"; The review collection "Chasing the Elf"; the anthology "Selected Poems of Jin Bo's Children", "Selected Works of Jin Bo" and "Collection of Jin Bo's Poems and Songs", etc. Many of his works have been included in Chinese and music textbooks for primary and secondary schools. His works have won many National Book Awards, the "Five One Project" Award, the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award of the Chinese Writers Association, the Soong Ching Ling Children's Literature Award, and the Bing Xin Book Award. Nominated for the International Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1992.