The mention of "youth literature and art" is believed to evoke happy reading memories of many adults. As one of the most important and oldest children's literature publications in China, it mainly publishes novels, poems, essays, reportage, fairy tales and translated works. , with columns such as "MengMeng", "Zanthoxylum bungeanum" and "Literature Knowledge Corner", and also held the selection of "Good Works". Dong Tianye, Hua Sanchuan, Han Xing, Wu Han, Mao Yongkun, Le Xiaoying and many other famous cartoonists illustrated the publication, which is easy to understand, illustrated and interesting, and deeply loved by young friends. Most of the juvenile exercises published in each issue are colorful life in and out of school, Young Pioneers and family society. There are good students who study hard and love labor, small inventors who persist in truth and dare to innovate, and all kinds of touching stories of breaking superstition, uniting and helping each other and caring for the collective. The first works of many outstanding contemporary writers started from here and entered the literary world. There are also stories about the history of revolutionary struggle, science fiction fairy tales, folk fables and modern translation of ancient Chinese, which truly reflect the growth experience of children in that era and record the spiritual history of several generations of children's growth.
1960 On the cover of the 6th issue of Youth Literature and Art, a young pioneer stands on a high mountain top, holding the sun in his left hand and the moon in his right hand, surrounded by erupting rockets and rotating satellites. I plan to climb the peak of science and technology. This was also one of the slogans of young pioneers and children at that time, which showed the social background and mental outlook of children in the fifties and sixties.
During the Cultural Revolution, Youth Literature and Art was forced to stop publishing. Shanghai teenager, renamed as 1973, reprinted, and in July, it was still reprinted as Youth Literature. 1998 Youth Literature and Art was identified as one of the "National 100 Key Social Science Journals" by China Press and Publication Administration in 1998 ~ 1999. Juvenile literature and art have been accompanied by children in China for more than 50 years. This "New China" was published for the first time since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and won the national periodical title award, the outstanding periodical award in East China and other awards. It is one of the largest children's literature publications in China at present. The editions of 1950s and 1960s have become treasures, and the price of each edition is around 50 yuan. Youth Literature and Art is a famous children's literature publication in China, which has made many writers famous and nourished the hearts of generations of teenagers, and has unconsciously gone through a glorious course of 50 years. Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House and Children's Publishing House jointly launched the "Best Books for Young Literature and Art in 50 Years" series. Ren Rongrong, Ren Daxing,,,, Mei, Shen and other famous Shanghai writers attended the launching ceremony held in Shanghai Book City yesterday.
Founded in 1950s and inscribed by Soong Ching Ling, Youth Literature and Art is a classic epitome of China's achievements in children's literature creation in the past 50 years. Edited by Mei, an expert in children's literature research, The Essence of Fifty Years of Youth Literature includes five volumes: Colored Road, Green Wheat Field, Red Swing, Golden Bucket and Blue Ocean, and selects novels, essays, poems and fairy tales with different styles published in Youth Literature in recent fifty years.
In September 2005, Youth Literature and Art also published three authoritative anthologies of outstanding works of youth literature and art in the past 20 years, namely Green Apple, Red Apple, Dazzling Brother, Beautiful Sister, Blue Crystal and Amethyst.