A brief review of Ye Shengtao's The Scarecrow

The Scarecrow is a modern Chinese fairy tale published by Ye Shengtao in 1922.

Ye Shengtao's collection of fairy tales, The Scarecrow, opened the door to fairy tales in China, changing the previous history of no fairy tales in China. It changed the backward appearance of traditional Chinese children's books, which were full of absurd and strange stories and didactic meanings.

With his own fresh and unique fairy tales, he opened up and carried forward the literary tradition of realism, showing children the dark social reality of the time and guiding them to pursue beauty and goodness.

The Scarecrow is also a metaphor for a kind of people in our real life, a kind of obscurity, but selfless dedication, ordinary, but extraordinary people! They are worthy of respect, at the same time, it is our personality pursuit, we do things standardized! We should learn from them! Wish we have more good people like the scarecrow in the world, if everyone gives a little love, the world will become a better earth.

Expanded Information

Background:

Ye Shengtao took part in the "New Tide Society", a student organization at Peking University supported by Li Dazhao and Lu Xun in 1919, and initiated the "Society for Literary Studies" in 1921, together with Zheng Zhenduo, Mao Dun and others. In 1921, he and Zheng Zhenduo, Mao Dun and others organized and launched the "Literary Research Society".

In September 1921, Zheng Zhenduo wrote the "Declaration of Children's World," introducing the purpose and classification of the weekly magazine he was to edit, and in January 1922 it was launched.

Ye Shengtao recalled his own fairy tale writing in 1980 and said that he started writing fairy tales from the first "Little White Boat" on November 15, 1921, when Mr. Zheng Zhenduo, who was editing "Children's World," asked him to supply him with manuscripts.

Children's World published one issue every week, and by the time he finished writing The Scarecrow in June 1922, Ye Shengtao*** had written 23 fairy tales, all of which were published in Children's World.

References

Baidu Encyclopedia - The Scarecrow (Fairy Tales by Ye Shengtao)