From The Perspective Of Children’s Literature To Research Of The Song Dynasty Children Books

In ancient China, there were many spread unabated books for children,especially during the Song Dynasty, Tang Dynasty and later. As a cultural prosperousera of books for children, the levels reached a peak. The Song Dynasty was themature period of the development of ancient Chinese enlightenment education,including the creation of books for children had reached a higher level. Handingdown numerous books for children had become an important material for us toresearch works of children’s literature in this period.In order to ensure that Song Dynasty had no longer repeated the Five Dynasties’mistakes, Song Dynasty focused and strengthened the centralization of power in theconstruction of culture, education, school education vigorously advocated,particularly valued the education of children. The government had ordered theestablishment of primary school in the central and local, primary education in variousforms showing a flourishing situation. In addition to the engraving printingpopularization and promotion, bringing the mode of transmission of the revolution,which made the copy number of the Song Dynasty books for children become true.The policy tilt promoted social atmosphere, printing technology innovation providedimportant conditions for the prosperity of books for children.Before the Song Dynasty, there were few scholars actively participated inwriting books for children. But in the Two Song Periods, this condition had beengreatly improved. Many university researchers, writers, scientists were consciouslyinvolved in writing books for children in the team, such as Zhu Xi, Lu Zuqian, WangYinglin, had left many universal praises. They wrote and communicated personally, making the Song Dynasty society pay attention to the books for children widely.With the readers of the Song Dynasty books for children were increased,different levels and the content demand of reading books for children had changed.During this period, books for children showed rich in content and different stylecharacteristics. Since the Northern Song Dynasty, the contents of books for childrenhave been more professional, such as history, moral education, types and poetry andso on, it have formed a distinctive form of children’s books, and pay more attention tochildren’s psychological characteristics, social development, cultural developmentresults consciously.The Song Dynasty books for children with two kinds of function, social functionfor the first time, the educational function of population. Social function is dividedinto a mind control, on the other hand, instilling ethics. Primary education in themoral education and daily behavior standards, then, in the books for children hasalways been permeated with moral content, and its connotation is to inherit traditionalessence. Its function of educating people in Song Dynasty, pay special attention tochildren to keep good advice Mingzhi, external demand have a gentleman. Childrenof this group began to attach importance to books for children, specifically for thiskind of people to spread and popularization, has the initial meaning of modernchildren’s literature.In the initial period of children’s literature, there is not a mature creative team,therefore, the works of folk literature and art forms, fable, adult literary fragments ofstories, is the early form of children’s literature. The Song Dynasty books for childrenas an early form of children’s literature, children’s literature in the spontaneous stage,it contains various features and advantages of today are worthy of reference.