A Study Of Yuan Ying’s Children’s Poems In The Political Context Of New China

As a representative writer in the 1950s and 1970s,Yuan Ying published many children’s poems and won the first and second prizes of the National Children’s Literature and Art Award,but his children’s literature works are often ignored by researchers.This is reflected in the fact that previous studies have focused on Yuan Ying’s general literature rather than children’s literature.From the perspective of the political context of New China,Yuan Ying’s children’s poems better reflect the overall creative outlook of children’s literature in this period.Yuan Ying’s children’s literature works should be combined with his children’s literature theory,that is,literature and art should conform to the party spirit principles and common tasks of socialist literature and art.Yuan Ying’s children’s poems represent a large number of works related to the theme of political life,aiming to convey the spirit of the times,express the will of the people,shoulder the revolutionary mission,and enrich the expression field of New Chinese Children’s Literature.In the background of the era of“integration”of new Chinese literature,Yuan Ying’s works are epochal and typical.In the perspective of century-old Chinese literature,New Chinese Children’s Literature（1950s—1970s）occupies an important position.Based on“human literature”,New Chinese Children’s Literature is the result of the continuation,development,and integration of two stages,namely,the“May 4^th”Children’s Literature and the“Left-wing”Children’s Literature.It has assumed the responsibility and mission of shaping a“new socialist person”in New China and has become a part of national literature.In the political context of New China,Yuan Ying attached importance to the dissemination and response of children’s literature to political thoughts,and the game between“political”and“literary”became the characteristics of his children’s poetry.On the one hand,Yuan Ying wants to convey the political discourse of ideology in his poems,and bring it into the sequence of national literature;On the other hand,Yuan Ying also needs to ensure the ontological characteristics of“childlike”and“literariness”of children’s literature,so as to prevent children’s literature from becoming the“mouthpiece”of politics.In the context of integrated literature,“children’s standard”has gradually given way to“revolutionary standard”and“national standard”.New Chinese Children’s Literature has established its own value function as national literature.Starting from the three dimensions of“language”,“body”,and“space”,Yuan Ying’s children’s poetry adheres to its ontological nature as literature in the political context.At the linguistic level,Yuan Ying has a good grasp of the dialectical relationship between“accuracy”and“fuzziness”in language,conveying the ideological and political language of“the main theme”through accurate language,while using the fuzziness of language to add literary flavor to the language of children’s poetry.As a symbolic symbol,the body bears the dual imprint of politics and literature.The body writing of Yuan Ying’s children’s poetry has become a window reflecting the game between literature and politics,with two main natures:“other belonging”and“self belonging”.The“other belonging”body is the track of Yuan Ying’s children’s poetry to represent class politics,with a clear political orientation.The“self belonging”body compensates for the gap between politics and literature,while representing the“resistance”of literature.However,the self owned body also carries traces of social ideology,and there is a phenomenon of mutual infiltration between the homogenization and anti homogenization of body writing.In the spatial dimension,Yuan Ying’s children’s poetry reflects the new social outlook after the founding of New China by writing“political space-time body”.The discourse space in Yuan Ying’s children’s poetry is mainly composed of“social discourse”and“educational discourse”,which respectively correspond to the political orientation and educational utilitarianism of national literature in the early days of the founding of New China.The establishment of game space precisely reflects that New Chinese Children’s Literature is not completely patterned and standardized,but rather has some vague complexity,and has been integrated into the political context of New Chinese literature with a structural style of“tension”.Taking Yuan Ying’s children’s poetry as a case study,it is not difficult to see that New Chinese Children’s Literature has rich and complex modernity values.