The Form And Its Significance

As the vanguard and the backbone of the Chinese contemporary children’s literature, Mei Zihan’s novels always has his own feeling. Since 2007, Mei Zihan had created a series of short children’s novels, his creation has entered a new stage. These works have a very prominent form characteristic and rich literary connotation that was what Mei Zihan literary creation always have.First of all, in these novels, Mei Zihan had used the traditional Storyteller intonation in his own form. By strengthening the speaker’s position and the role of the reader, the writer launched his narrative discourse, deeply attracted the readers to participate in the text. The Storyteller tone strengthened the reader’s self experience, the author going to appear identity and lead the readers into the world of his childhood, then the readers can deeply experience the condition of the author’s description.Secondly, these works of Mei Zihan show the characteristics of Quilting structures. In these novels, the writer had used many broken materials, these broken materials were controlled by the the narrator. The literary structure of Quilting type expanded the view of text, digested the opposite proposition. It makes the childhood style can get vertical rendering, this is the power of form.At last, some of Mei Zihan latest works have the feature of fantasy. In these novels, Mei Zihan had written many really things to lay the groundwork of fantasy. Then through the the cognitive division and the emotional catharsis of the hero, fantasy happened. From the fantasy that had happened in the really life, the author try to find the truth of childhood and make it better.Because of using these forms, the latest children’s novels of Mei Zihan have the features of classical art and the post modern art traits. In these works, the author try to record the childhood and the thoughts about all sorts of it, finding the variety of feelings and meanings of life. They had providing Chinese contemporary children’s literature a good model.