Comment On Ling Shuhua’s Children’s Literature Creation

In the literay world, people named Ling Shuhua New Lady Genre,because she is good at writing stories about females in countryard. Until 1930s, she shifted from focusing on female to children. She created a series of children’s image is not like a child on the surface of shaped, but more like real into the children’s heart. She is perfectly described children’s joys and sorrows, which making all children feel kind. she looks the word through the children’s perspective, lighted the hypocrisy of the adult world, at the same time give enlightenment on adults. Both children and the adults enjoy reading her children’s literature works, and they all can learn someting on their degree. In the 30s, the mainstream of children’s literature were written about political war, but the flowing of LingShuHua’s children-orientation writing, undoubtedly enriched the modern Chinese children’s literature picture. One of Ling Shuhua’ children’s literature writing techniques is sticking to objective narrative and description, which appeared a life picture in front of readers, the story was hidden behind the picture of the life. Compared to currently popular, pure lively and funny children’s literature works, this kind of writing style is beauty, deep and long-drawn-out, growing more precious.The paper mainly divides into six chapters, mainly from the following several aspects to discuss:The first chapter discusses Ling Shuhua’s view of the creation of "children standard". What kind of views on children will eventually decided to writer’s children’s literature creation. First of all, LingShuhua think children is different from the adult and the existence of individuals; Secondly, children’s mind is a big difference with that of adults, sometimes maybe opposite; LingShuHua’s views on children was children-orientation, respect children’s own cultural values. Her children’s literature creation insists into the children, the pursuit of friendly, simple guileless nature; Loyal to life and reasonable, more important is to grasp the age characteristics of children stage; pay attention to depict, avoid preaching.The second chapter discusses the children images of Ling Shuhua’s children fiction. LingShuHua feels the world through the perspective and spiritual of children. The stories are around children, about the children’s mentality, the description of the children’s simplicity are true to life.In the author’s world, the children and adults belong to the poles of life,children have their own "independent kingdom", have their own unique space distance, own evaluation criteria to person to matter and the different values in life from the adults. Therefore, every vivid figure of children in Ling Shuhua’s world, their naughty, injustice, joy, loneliness, make children feel kind and true.The third chapte is based on a medium-length children’s novel to analyze the change of Ling Shuhua’s creation brought by the war. From the the Anti-Japanese War to the eve of the founding, the anti-Japanese national salvation is the theme of the era. War changed the whole society, facing the threat of death, a writer with a cavity patriotic enthusiasm, changed the former days style focusing on the joy and sorrow of the children in the deep courtyard. Ling began to describe to the crimes of the Japanese invaders and the traitors stooges traitorous faces andb the heroic resistance of Chinese sons and daughters. Children in the novel is no longer only paying attention to people and things in the nature, animals, families, they longed to take part in the war of resistance, to defend the country.The fourth chapter discusses the writer’s constant pursuit of art. When Ling Shuhua created the medium-length novel Sons and Daughters of China, her former creations creation subject of concern, and the writer’s emotions were changed. But insisting on the objectivity of description, insisting to the analysis of the eternal human nature have always been her constant pursuit of art.The fifth chapter discusses the structure and language of Ling Shuhua’s children novel. In her children novel,multi-development structure and the structure of the sudden turn of drama are left a blank to the development of the plot, and gave the reader a enough room to recreate; Her children novel’s language, no matter the narration language or the description language and conversational language, all plain and simple, as plain as ordinary speech, and all full of child’s simplicityand children’s interesting.The sixth chapter is about the creation origin of the Ling Shuhua, mainly including her motive of creation and artistic origin. Ling Shuhua’s former creation is mainly engaged in the creation of the female subject, beginning in 1926, her interest gradually turned to the children’s literature. Investigate its reason mainly includes the inside and outside two aspects, on the one hand is echoes of May 4th children’s discovery,; on the other hand, her own emotional needs, childhood complex and ideal personality and so on. Ling Shuhua successively experienced the modern review faction, crescent faction, the Beijing school three famous literary genre, she become representatives of each genre by creating in her own unique performance, and every genre of art pursue promote her final growth and maturity. The novel drunk made Ling Shuhua recieved the attention in the critics, her style is gradually maturing, and she admits her creation was influenced by Chekhov. Chekhov as a good writer of children’s literature, her children’s literature creation may inevitably affected LingShuHua creation. Her adult literary creation skills, style is influenced by Chekhov and finally formed her own style, and she bring this style to her children’s literature creation.