At that time, my son had just entered the first grade. We are always in a hurry when we go to school every day. Mother and son have just had a fierce battle after getting up. They hurried and sloppily across Pubei Road and Hongcao Road, and finally stood at the gate of Lane 14 of Guilin West Street. Muyang shrugged his schoolbag over his shoulder and whispered, "Goodbye, mom!" He shook his hand, and I shook mine.
Looking at his small, submerged figure, I often feel remorse: I really shouldn't have yelled just now. How did I behave as a mother? Didn't we agree to be patient, just hold your horses and "take the snail for a walk"? At the same time, I began to think: I helped him do a lot of copying new words last night, and the teacher will definitely find out. Will he be criticized? ......
after school, it's what we both like. Muyang and I lingered between fried fish, salted duck eggs, bamboo brooms and toy stalls at the entrance of the food market, listening to him tell interesting stories about school intermittently and urging him to finish the remaining half bottle of yogurt quickly. What impressed me the most was that he talked about the war between girls and boys. His angry nostrils almost turned into two big holes, and his teeth giggled. I held back my laughter and my sigh. When I got home, I wrote "Muyang's School Record" on the computer-I never thought that the column "Childhood" could be written until now, accompanying and covering my son's whole primary school age.
2
To be honest, the meaning of "Going to School in Muyang" is personal at first.
every mother is lucky to be able to observe the growth of a boy's life so closely. My son's unconstrained thoughts and furry language (Chun Er, who wrote children's poems, called it "immortal words") surprised me every moment. Therefore, as a mother, I have been thinking and struggling. Is our school education and family education really icing on the cake?
The Book of Going to School in Muyang contains children's poems, stories and diaries, which come from children as well as adults. To some extent, it is more like a multi-voice chorus in children's daily life. It is not so much that I deliberately mix and match, but rather that this is the child's original life texture, chaotic and naive natural state.
Grasping the world by intuition, they are unconstrained and unconstrained, and they can never learn from each other and enjoy the homophony, reduplication, polysemy and rhyme in spoken language. "Children's Poetry" should have become children's closest friends-a beach castle and a hundred building blocks for their words, a happy show they imagined and built at will, and a catharsis and revelry of their emotions ... And I just followed. Follow their smug inspiration, follow their freewheeling tongues and mouths-as you can hear, those crisp Ming Che sounds are like stars, and the sky is full of their paws and footprints!
Three
Muyang tells his stories at school every day, all of which are interesting. I'm a fisherman, so I quickly wrote down those materials and the embryonic form of the story, and I plan to follow the gourd painting gourd ladle lazily. It is a relatively standard "non-fiction"-of course, except for the son's name, all other names are pseudonyms.
With the deepening of my writing, I really realized the challenge of writing children's novels in the first person. Even at one time, I thought that only by writing in the first person can we test the level of a children's literature writer-of course, this is biased. For a truly excellent children's literature writer, "person" is not an obstacle. He can always freely enter a mysterious channel, meet with childhood secrets and illuminate each other.
fortunately, life is always greater than legend. In my daily communication with my son, I was fascinated by his interesting numbers and mysterious stories of the universe. I looked greedily at the fun "big color block" he described, and I often couldn't write. How I wish I could suddenly enter the mysterious channel and merge with Muyang in the story!
driven by his story, I was dizzy with excitement, and I felt that everything was steaming with enthusiasm, as if it were inexhaustible. I began to understand what Picasso, a master painter, said: "I spent my whole life learning how to paint like a child." This may not only be a humble remark, but also a heartfelt remark of the master in his later years.
Four
"Mom's Diary" is actually a personal note. It is a spiritual monologue in which a mother and a child stumble and grow together, and it is also a messy footprint of countless superimposed confusion, anxiety and joy.
I still remember when Muyang Primary School was promoted to junior high school the year before last, whenever I heard the words "junior high school", my heart would thump and thump. Posts are flying all over the sky. Is it private (middle school) or public (middle school)? Which makes sense? It's better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. Domestic class or bilingual class? What the hell are "excellent classes", "science classes" and "parallel classes"? ..... Everyone is asking, which platform should I go diving on? How can I infiltrate the "enemy" and collect the latest information first hand? How can I be recommended, trusted, and blessed? ......
We are all mortal mothers.
We are not smart enough, calm enough and perfect enough.
but why are our minds not calm enough, our emotions not soothing enough and our faces not gentle enough?
However, why do we always go head-to-head with the growing Xiong Haizi, losing both sides and making up again?
..... all these, I hope, can be revealed and opened in "Mom's Diary". I want my children to see that the world is always connected with regret, and regret is always with love.
May
In the summer when Muyang Primary School graduated, our mother and son sat opposite each other.
I handed a newly compiled 52 copies of Childhood to Muyang. I said, "Congratulations, son, on your graduation from primary school! Look,' Muyang's childhood'! "
Muyang stood up and looked at me. He is about to catch up with me. The brow is childlike. He came over, and we didn't hug, but reached out and smiled confidently like two truly equal adults, raising our arms and high-fiving!
at that moment, I felt the warmth in my son's palm and the power of a teenager.
VI
Thank you, Mr. Zheng, President of Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Xiao Le, all the editors and editors in charge, thank you for your efforts and hard work, and thank you for your understanding of me as a "revision madman". How important your tolerance is to a writer.
I thank the talented teacher Ban Ma for his outstanding inspiration, and thank him for naming School in Muyang with "Children's Newspeak Book". Thanks to Muyang's favorite grandpa Jinbo, my good sisters A Tang, Lu Lu, Chun Er and Rabbit, the Milky Way that Muyang has always admired, and my old friend Zhang Min, for recording precious growth tidbits for Muyang.
Thank my tutor Mei Zihan for introducing me to children's literature. Thanks to my good friends Chen Su and Yingying's Childhood and Family Education for spending the best childhood with Muyang. Thanks to the 94-year-old Mr. Ren Rongrong, who has been encouraging and urging, he is the real Taishan Beidou in China children's literature.
I am deeply grateful to my family. My elderly parents and sister's family are kind and self-restrained all their lives, and their warm traces are everywhere in my words. Thank you, dear Muyang. Thank you for choosing me as your mother. Thank you, Father Muyang. On this spring anniversary, I want to say that I am not a wild horse, and you have no grassland. We only have years, family and lovely son-you see, everything is the best arrangement.
April 18th, 216 in Taylor Town, Texas, USA
Brief introduction of Xiao Ping
Dr. Xiao Ping is a professor at School of Humanities and Communication, director of Children's Art Creativity and Research Center, member of Chinese Writers Association and Shanghai Dramatists Association.
His works mainly include the campus novel Happy Bubu Series (6 volumes), the novel Relief in Spring, the long fairy tale One Inch of Time, the poetry collection Carnival, The Queen is One Year Old, the prose collection Please Allow me to miss sadly, and the children's drama Ant Cha. Translate "Children's Emotional Management Picture Books" (16 books) and "Who is afraid of bad books?" More than 3 kinds of picture books. He has won the 8th National Excellent Children's Literature Award, Bingxin Children's Book Award, Bingxin Children's Literature Award for New Works, the 16th, 23rd and 25th Chen Bochui Children's Literature Awards, China Excellent Publications Book Award, etc. His works were selected into the "White Crow" international bibliography of Munich Youth Library in Germany and various children's literature reading selections in and out of class.
Introduction
The Book of Muyang Going to School (4 volumes) is a non-fiction spiritual record of the daily conversation between mother and child, and an innovative "children's new story book" created by Xiao Ping, a children's literature writer. Through deliberate mixing, the author records the growth of children from many angles, showing the original life texture, chaotic and naive natural state of children. The work contains three sections, namely "Children's Poetry Scene", "Muyang Telling" and "Mom's Diary". To some extent, it is like a multi-voice chorus in children's daily life.
"Going to School in Muyang" truly records the primary school life of Li Muyang, a little warm man, from the time he signed up for primary school to the time he graduated from primary school and chose his own future. No matter for parents or children, every day when children grow up is new, new stories will happen, and new problems will be encountered. All families are like this. But this dribs and drabs of daily life, under Xiao Ping's pen, has become as bright and vivid as the twinkling stars in the sky. Therefore, when young readers or parents read these records, they will naturally have a buzz, and they will not be able to rethink their lives from another perspective.