Picture book China story traditional festival

Introduction to the International Year:

In, a legendary monster has been circulating in China for a long time. Everyone seems to be familiar with him, but he is a stranger, because no one can accurately describe his appearance. Because of this, the more mysterious he is, the more curious he becomes, so Nian has become a mysterious and terrible monster in everyone's mind.

Because "Nian" is so unique and peculiar in the eyes of China people, there are countless stories about him, but the contents are similar. Most of them describe how he came out to bully people, how people drove him away with firecrackers, and then how to celebrate. Everyone ignores who Nian really is, why they bully others, and what they are doing on other days except coming out at the end of the year. After all, how much do you know about Nian?

However, we can get a glimpse of the true face of "Year" in the picture book "Year" created and drawn by Xiong Liang and Hall. In the story, Nian is a terrible monster who lives on a high mountain. It will come out at the end of the year to scare people. Surprisingly, it turned out to be a lonely monster. Because there is no one to play with him, his heart is empty and his emotions are all turned into anger, so there will be hurtful actions. Hey, isn't this very human? In fact, Nian is not a monster in Shan Ye, but a lonely monster in people's hearts. He usually hides in people's hearts and sometimes comes out to bite his master. At the end of each year, we get together. When * * * enjoys the joy of affection, love and friendship, the lonely mood in 2008 will undergo a series of changes: from loneliness to jealousy to anger, and then to wanting to hurt people, so he left his master's heart. This is the actual origin of the scary "Year"!

The author can't bear to let everyone do nothing about "Year" and let it dominate everyone's heart. The tragic result of self-injury provides a successful trick to overcome "Nian"-making a phone call, as long as you call your relatives, lovers or friends and release your inner loneliness, you can't condense into a monster "Nian". Maybe many people will feel dumbfounded. It is naive for the author to provide such a simple way of "making a phone call". Yes, the simpler the method, the better.

The author tells the story from the perspective of children. At first, he explained that "years are accumulated by loneliness", and then pointed out that loneliness can hurt people, and the easiest way to get rid of loneliness is to call someone to chat and talk. This story concisely and powerfully explains an abstract noun-loneliness, and also solves the mystery of the Millennium-the origin of the "Nian" beast.

The reason why the author takes children's perspective as a narrative technique is to observe that not only adults will be lonely, but also children will feel lonely. Especially in modern families, parents are busy with work, children are only children, and there is no child to accompany them. Children should be encouraged to find ways to overcome them themselves. Teaching children to solve things with their own wisdom and methods is the greatest purpose of education. This picture book story turns the familiar "Nian" into a lonely monster, and lets children get rid of loneliness in simple and feasible ways. I think it has achieved a strange purpose, so it is a picture book that gives children strength.

In drawing, we can also observe the painter's intention, especially in the design of modeling. The painter inherited the spirit of the author, painting all year round, without sharp lines, and his whole face looked silly, but it was a bit like a chubby child. Invisibly narrowed the distance between the child and the year, and I couldn't help but want to get close to him and understand the true emotions hidden behind the vicious behavior. ..... Through the process of reading identification → empathy → epiphany → enlightenment → growth, I gradually learned how to deal with my emotions.

In addition, the painter also used a lot of "red" to convey the characteristics of China Year, which made the whole picture book beaming and full of the flavor of that year. In addition, he painted various activities in the New Year, including setting off firecrackers, hanging New Year pictures and carrying lanterns, which also made readers feel the lively atmosphere of the New Year.

At a time when many publishing houses have introduced all kinds of foreign picture books, domestic painters have created picture books with traditional culture and local flavor, which shows us that China picture books are slowly emerging with their own styles (whether traditional or new) and creating their own styles.