“Powerful” Writing

Zhou Jing is one of the contemporary fairy tale writers with unique artistic style.Her fairy tale creation shows the artistic pursuit of "powerful" writing by paying attention to childhood life,thinking about traditional mythology and using folk resources.Zhou Jing brings the thinking of "the power of childhood" through the combination of childhood ideal and childhood reality in fairy tale creation.On the one hand,the depiction of rural landscape and rural children in fairy tales projects the author’s imagination of ideal childhood.While identifying with local culture,the works lead people to think about the true state of childhood.On the other hand,the works’ reflection on the reality of childhood brings the spiritual power to face loneliness and understand loneliness,and leads people to pay attention to the causes of childhood loneliness,as well as the growth opportunities and metaphors contained in it,and approaches children’s hearts.Mythological resources give Zhou Jing a new creative perspective.Fairy tales provide references for children’s literature on how to inherit and transmit the "mythological power" by focusing on the individual circumstances of mythological characters and applying collage techniques.After magnifying the individual circumstances of mythological characters,the work further explores topics such as self,identity,growth and war,inspiring people to re-understand the power of myth.The works use collage techniques to carry out personalized interpretation of myths,which not only constructs a clear and vivid mythological world,but also forms a diversified imagination of specific mythological characters.Children’s literature has its unique aesthetic significance to the transformation of mythological resources such as The Classic of Mountains and Seas,which is helpful to restore the traditional mythology and rebel the educational centralism.The "folk power" conveyed by Zhou Jing’s fairy tales is mainly derived from the utilization of traditional folk story resources,the creation of new folk magic figures and the conception of new folk legends.Through the use of traditional folk narrative forms and elements,the works evoke people’s memories of old folk stories and introduces many profound topics.With the help of personification and visualization,the works not only convey the belief power related to land,mountains and rivers,but also highlight the spiritual power that has the courage to master their own destiny.The conception of the new folk legend in the work conveys a poetic power,which not only brings a sense of lightness and surprise,but also arouses people’s sense of worship and sacredness in the face of nature.