Research On Children’s Writing In Chi Zijian’s Work

Throughout Chi Zijian’s literary creation, the children’s writing accounted for a large proportion. The research of children’s writing in Chi Zijian’s works has achieved some results so far, but there are still lots of problems that need a further expansion. Although previous studies have referred to the exploration of children’s images, aesthetic characteristics and the significance of children’s perspective, the works mostly focus on common texts, lacking of comprehensiveness and systematicness. In addition, "chindren’s writing" has not been defined clearly in academic in the past; and the previous researches on "children’s perspective" are often confused with "children’s perspective novels" which existing the problems of unclear concepts. Therefore, starting from the children’s writing of all Chi Zijian’s works, pointing out the limitations of other researches, and putting forward the definitions of children’s writing and children’s perspective explicitly, that will provides a broad space for our research, and can also profoundly reveals Chi Zijian’s attachments to the rural civilization, the tolerance of humanity and the attention to the sufferings, reflecting the deep humanistic concern of the writer.Academics for children’s writing researches mainly focus on children’s perspective. Chinese writers started their children’s perspective creating from the late Qing dynasty, and have made some achievements. Chi Zijian’s works of children’s perspective are mainly based on childhood experiences and personal preferences. Children’s perspective is that the writers narrate as a child, so it is highly necessary to hold the characteristics and affects of children’s narrative by exactly knowing about children’s interests, their thought, psychological characteristics and the understanding of children’s images. Chi Zijian uses the images of warm sensitive children, helpless children, brave and persistent children, forever young children to express her attention to children, the pursuit of goodness.Chi Zijian borrowed with children’s vision and language to describe the original landscapes, animals, folk customs in northeast China, showing her memories and nostalgia of the life in her hometown, the pure love to the land and human nature calls, it reflects the writer’s deep humanistic concern.Due to the children’s thinking, language and expression ability are not matured yet, so the world they understand is different from those of adults’. Using the children’s perspective to describe, reflecting the adults’ world will present the Verfremdungs Effect. The main performances are the Verfremdungs Effect of death, emotion and parental figures. The text language and structure of Children’s writing are different from general works. The text language in children’s writing is simple, poetic and humorous, and the structure of the text is not rigorous. Children’s writing in Chi Zijian’s works show two oppositions which are "city-village" and "adult-children ". Comparing cities and villages, the children’s writing criticized the temptation of cities to pollute people’s soul. These works express the longing for the simple and real countryside life. Through children’s narrative, Chi Zijian shaped unsympathetic, selfish adult images. Compared with children’s trueness and goodness, adults and the adults’ world are filled with a sense of guilt.Chi Zijian uses the identity of children, looking at the world by innocent eyes, telling stories with children’s simple language and thinking, expressing her love of her hometown and the concern about children and humanity, reflecting the writer’s deep humanistic concern.