Ye Shengtao's representative fairy tales: Scarecrow, Traveler, Little White Boat, Stone Statue of Ancient Heroes, A Seed, The Emperor's New Clothes, Rose and Goldfish, The Wedding of the Moon Girl, Mimosa, Happy Man, and A Grid Dream.
Ye Shengtao was the first writer to write fairy tales in the 1920s. The work Scarecrow was published in 1923. This children's book is very popular among many teenagers.
Another work, The Stone Statue of Ancient Heroes, tells the story that a stone was carved into a heroic image. The moral behind this popular story is to laugh at the arrogance of experts and people's numbness.
Ye Shengtao enthusiastically advocates the standardization of modern Chinese, including the standardization of grammar, rhetoric, vocabulary, punctuation, simplification of characters and the removal of variant characters. He also compiled and standardized the Chinese characters in his publications, and stipulated the scheme of Chinese Pinyin. His efforts have improved the quality and organizational structure of editing work.
Ye Shengtao
The outstanding artistic achievement of Ye Shengtao's novels lies in his calm observation and objective description of "gray life", which shows distinct realistic characteristics. The writer's calm and objective style does not exclude the expression of his inner enthusiasm and subjective opinions. Calm observation and objective description are the most prominent factors in Ye Shengtao's novel style.
I used a pair of eyes to see through the world, calmly examining the people who were curled up in the corner of old China and were insulted and hurt. His heart was full of compassion, but when he put pen to paper, he hid it, cold and reserved. His meaning is often hidden outside the text, but his feelings are not revealed in the text.