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Writer Tong Yan (Baidu Encyclopedia Entry)

Tong Yan's Writing History

Basic Overview

Tong Yan is a well-known Chinese children's literature writer, novelist, film and television producer, and screenwriter. He is a famous language teacher, vice-chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association, and a contracted writer for "Reader" and "Language Weekly". He is the author of the novels "The Qin Bird" and "The Three Wishes of the Yellow Warbler", the collection of children's stories "The Little Jujube Tree and Grandpa", and the series of science popularization picture books "The Autumn of the Little Dulcimer Pear" and "The White Flower Tree and the Pink Flower Tree", among others. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages and published in Russia, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, the United States, Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Greece, Denmark and other countries and regions, and he has been awarded the Bingxin Children's Literature Prize, the People's Literature Prize, the International Courier Prize for Foreign Novels in France, and the Grinzana Caffer Prize for Literature in Italy, among others. He has been honored with the Bingxin Prize for Children's Literature, the People's Literature Prize, the French International Courier Prize for Foreign Fiction, and the Italian Grinzana Carver Literature Prize.

Profile

Tong Yan is a well-known Chinese children's writer and novelist, known as one of China's top three children's storytellers together with Sun Youjun and Bingbo. He is a film and television producer and screenwriter, and in 2013, he published his masterpiece, The Piano Bird, which shook the literary world in one fell swoop. 2014, he became familiar to the public for participating in the program "Not Yours" on Tianjin TV, and in 2023, he was ranked 9th on the list of the odds of the Nobel Prize for Literature, which aroused concern. He is a special grade teacher in Hangzhou and a contracted writer for Reader and Language Weekly.

Tong Yan was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, with an ancestral home in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, 90 years later, his real name is Zhang Yufei. His works mainly include the novels "The Qin Bird", "The Three Wishes of the Yellow Warbler" and "The White Phoenix", the collection of children's stories "The Little Jujube Tree and Grandpa", and the science popularization picture book series "The Autumn of the Little Dulcimer Pear", "The White Flower Tree and the Pink Flower Tree", and so on. The American "Publishers Weekly" praised "Tong Yan is an internationally renowned writer", known as "China's Hans Christian Andersen".

Tongyin has been a keen lover of literature since he was a child, and has published more than a thousand of his works in a series of authoritative journals, such as Juvenile Literature, Chinese Campus Literature, Juvenile Times, Elementary School Children's World, Children and Teenagers' Storytelling Newspaper, Children's Literature, Novels, Contemporary Novels, People's Literature, Jiangnan, Years and Months, etc. He has also written more than a thousand articles in the Chinese School Literature Journal. He has published more than a thousand works. He has kept a diary since he was a child, and has written more than 20 diaries, amounting to one million words, from the third grade of elementary school to university. He has won the Bingxin Children's Literature Prize, the People's Literature Prize, the "Jinghua Cup" National University Students' Fable Grand Prix Award, the French International Courier Foreign Fiction Prize, and the Italian Grenzana Carver Literature Prize, among others.

The novel "The Bird" created a precedent of serial publication of original bird fairy tales in "Little Cherry" magazine, and became the most popular long fairy tale in 2013.

His works have not only brought a wealth of reading material to the publishing world, but also provided wonderful subjects for the film and television industry, with the fairy tale "The Green Bird" and "The Legend of the Burnt Wooden Piano" being adapted into movies one after another.

Most of Tong Yan's works are characterized by strange imaginations, numerous characters, diverse genres and distinctive personalities, and the language style is often fresh, beautiful, simple and natural, with high literary and artistic qualities, which is pure children's literature, and establishes a new height for Chinese fairy tales.

Tongyin has been hailed as "the most talented and popular writer" and "the most influential writer in China".

Character profile

Pen name: Tong Yan

Original Chinese name: Zhang Yufei

English name: Jesse

Nationality: Chinese

Ethnicity: Han Chinese

Height: 178cm

Weight: 70kg

Birthplace: Hangzhou, Zhejiang

Ancestry: Shijiazhuang, Hebei

Country: Hebei, China Ancestry: Shijiazhuang, Hebei

Family status: parents, sister

Creative characteristics

Tong Yan is a realist writer, his works are full of life, or warm or sad or romantic or nostalgia, always filled with the flavor of the landscape and idyllic, very spiritual and aesthetic characteristics, to create a picture that often lingers in the minds of readers.

Representative images: Qin Ming, Pine Laughing, Little White Feather, Hua Bird, Ah Slip, Phoenix Feather, Golden Eagle, Snake Eagle, Lele (a little boy's name), Yellow Warbler, White-legged Kestrel, Blue-Green Magpie, and Red Burning Bird.

Resident Magazines and Newspapers

Juvenile Literature and Art, People's Literature, Writers, Chinese School Literature,

Beijing Literature, Years and Years, Selected Essays, Prose,

Children's Literature, Fairy Tale World, October, Yellow River Literature

Read and Write World, Yanzhao Evening Post













































The World of Fairy Tales," "October," "Yellow River Literature,"

Happy Learning - Composition (Qingdao, Shandong), Teenager's World (Linyi, Shandong)

Junior Quality Education Newspaper (Shijiazhuang), Junior Intelligence Development Newspaper, Language Weekly,

Small Hans Christian Andersen, Children's World (Hebei),

The Children's Pinyin Newspaper (Beijing),

Primary Students' Pinyin Newspaper (Beijing),

Primary Students' Pinyin Newspaper (China),

Phonics News for Primary School Students, Primary School Students,

Red Scarf, Red Dragonfly, Junior Encyclopedic Knowledge Newspaper,

Junior Times (Sichuan), Composition Camp,

Snowflake, Children of the World (Pinyin Edition),

Teen Pioneers (Chongqing), Shenzhen Youth Newspaper - Enlightenment Weekly,

SAR Education, Mangrove, Wutonghua

Friends of Primary School Students, Happy Language, Language World

New Language Learning, Colorful Language, Student-Parent-Society

Fairytale Kingdom, Red Scarf Newspaper,

Northern Teenager Newspaper (Inner Mongolia), Junior World,

Literary Youth (Liaoning), Student World,

Story Composition (Gansu), Language Learning Newspaper,

Campus Song (Guizhou), Rural Children's Newspaper,

Children's King of Painting,

Anhui Youth Newspaper - Weekly for Elementary School Children,

Annual Life,
Dolls Paradise (Anhui),

Reading, Writing and Calculating, Pupils' World, Pupils' World,

Future Writers, Junior Literature and Art (Jiangsu), Kids,

School Creation (Guangxi), Selected Compositions for Primary School Students, Primary School Students' Learning Newspaper,

Composition Guidance Newspaper, Early Childhood Intelligence Development Picture Journal (Henan),

Clever Spring (Jiangxi), Little Writer's Newspaper-Mongolian, Chinese and Foreign Fairy Tales, Love Learning Everyday,

Counselor, Guoyu Daily News (Taiwan), Readers and so on.

Character Experience

Tong Yan was born into a family of scholars, and was well educated in literature and art since childhood. His grandfather was a deputy secretary of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, his grandmother was a director of the Chinese Film Music Society, his father was a professor at the School of History at Zhejiang University, and his cousin Tie Ning was the president of the Chinese Writers' Association. Her younger sister, Ye Zi, is a Chinese mainland pop singer and hostess, and her brother-in-law, Xu, is the son of Zhejiang businessman Xu Guanju.

Tongyin has been cultured as well as encouraged by his parents since he was a child, well-read and hard-working. He grew up with the habit of writing a diary, "At first, I wrote a diary just to cope with the teacher's diary assignment, but when I wrote it, it became a channel for me to vent my emotions and talk about my pains and sufferings, and I have persisted in doing so." From the third grade to now, he has finished writing more than twenty journals with as many as a million words.

The accumulation of literary merit is not only limited to journal writing, but also broad reading. When he was a child, his family subscribed to a newspaper, and every time he would cut out the newspaper articles that were suitable for reading and include them in a special book, which he would read over and over again in his spare time. After entering the university, the rich collection of the Shaw Library of the school provided good conditions for his reading. "My bookshelf is in the library." Every time he went to the library to borrow books, he would borrow the full amount of books limited by his library card. Tong Yan also made a list of college reading books for himself, with literature, philosophy, economics, clinical medicine, flora and fauna. "Reading can expand one's knowledge and broaden one's horizons, thus enhancing one's cultivation, cultivating one's character, and improving one's ability to analyze and solve problems." He said.

The fairy tale "Phoenix," written by Tong Yan, was published in Yanzhao Evening News in 2000, which was the beginning of his creative path. The fairy tale was then also adapted into a musical performance at the June 1 Children's Day, winning the appreciation of the whole school.

During his middle school years from 2002 to 2005, Tong Yan used his summer and winter vacations to write a 100,000-word long fairy tale called "Clouds Floating on the Sun and Moon Lake", which was later serialized on the Xiaoho Essay Writing Network and began to attract the attention of some readers in China.

The earliest person in the editorial and publishing world to dig deeper into the children's language was Fan Xu, editor-in-chief of Wuji Newspaper, who long ago threatened that "the children's language is a good literary seedling" and opened a large area of the board, serialized the series of children's stories written by this elementary school student, which caused a lot of turmoil in the city. The paper ceased publication years ago.

Tongyin's studies have not been delayed because of his creative work, on the contrary, his grades have always been among the best, and he was admitted to a provincial key high school as the top student in the county in the midterm examination. Under the pressure of the severe college entrance examination, Tong Yan's creation is less, just write some essays and diaries, but he has not forgotten the dream of literature, into the university to restore the creative power, in the completion of the professional courses under the premise of the book and adhere to the writing, completed the "qinbird," "Impression of Hebei," "colorful starry sky," and other works. Magazines often send a bill of royalties as much as snowflakes, Tong Yan said he never thought of earning money by writing, but the unexpected royalties met all his living expenses.

Henan's Little Cherry - Good Teenager first serialized Tong Yan's novel, "Gin Bird," in 2012-2013, which drew wide acclaim from readers and led to an increase in the magazine's sales.

Jindun Publishing was the first to sign a contract with Tong Yan to publish the novel, which sold out its first print run of 20,000 copies in the first two months after it went on sale, and was later reprinted several times.

Since then, many of Tong Yan's works have been published:

In 2013, Hangzhou Wan Yun Science and Technology Co. Ltd. published the full-length children's story Amu, Amu, Please Answer Me;

In 2014, Beijing Yutai Culture Communication Co. published a diary written by Tong Yan during his elementary school years, titled Diary of a Good Boy;

In 2015, Fujian People's Publishing House published Tong Yan's popular science fairy tale picture book series "Tong Yan's Popular Science Fairy Tales" (including "Colorful Starry Sky", "The Autumn of Little Dulcimer Pear", "The White Flower Tree and the Pink Flower Tree", "The Cross-billed Finch's Beautiful Meal", and "The Lunar Crescent Bridge");

In 2016, Jilin Fine Arts Publishing House published Tong Yan's short and medium-length fairy tale book, "The Little Jujubes Tree and the Grandfather";

In 2017, the Inkman Book and Culture Company planned and published Tong Yan's full-length fairy tale Qin Ming and Little White Feather.

In 2019 Jilin Fine Arts Publishing House published Tong Yan's collection of fairy tales, Willow Wind Flute, Outcasts on Jewel Mountain. In the same year, China Textile Publishing House published Tong Yan's collection My Name is Light, which includes several of Tong Yan's classic works, in addition to his writing experience talks, My Writing Stories series.

In 2017 a movie based on Tong Yan's fairy tale of the same name, The Green Bird, was shot and finalized in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou.

Tongyin's creations have not only brought a large number of excellent paper works to the publishing world, but also provided beautiful and rich materials for the movie and television industry. His series of works are adapted by several comic companies, film and television dealers for global promotion.

Introduction

The Bird is a full-length fairy tale written by Tong Yan in 2012, when he was only 22 years old.

The Bird is an animal adventure story. By telling the story of the Bird and the Little White Feather, who help each other in their dealings with various animals and human beings and fight against difficulties and dangers for the benefit of mankind, the novel promotes the beautiful traditional spirit of the Chinese nation, encourages people to be brave and hardworking, and emphasizes the importance of a sense of justice in real life, as well as conveying the idea of protecting nature and caring for small animals.

The main character, Qin Ming, enters the world of wild animals and the world of human beings successively, witnesses a thousand strange landscapes, and makes friends with very different styles, and in the process, the main character accomplishes the growth of life.

In the book, Child's Words endows the birds with the true, good, beautiful and false emotions of the human world, shows the thousands of species in the natural world, and plays a role in popularizing science while telling children stories about growth and inspiration. Talking about the source of inspiration for the novel, Tong said it came from his usual reading and his love for flowers, birds and plants. "Because I personally like flowers, plants, trees, and small animals very much, and one of my favorites is birds, the protagonist of 'Chin Bird' is based on real birds. I read a lot of encyclopedic books about birds at the library, and looking at the beautiful pictures, I was able to make up a wonderful story."

"Actors have to be in character to act, and they have to be in character to write." For Tong Yan, if the whole book takes 100 hours to write, the conceptualization takes at least 300 hours. The roof of the school's No. 8 dormitory building is his secret base. Because conceptualization and writing requires a quiet environment, at 9 or 10 o'clock in the evening, he pulled the plug, connected to the laptop, writing on the roof, often writing is 2 or 3 hours.

When he was working on his ideas, he would pace up and down on the roof. Tong said that every character in the book is like his own child, and he is often in the movie: "Sometimes like a fool, when I think of a sad plot suddenly burst into tears, and when I think of a funny plot, I will laugh." These flowers, grass, birds in his mind will constitute a moving story.

Looking at the "lyre bird" will understand, inside the dozen bell birds seem to have become a distinctive character of the child, some mischievous and love to make trouble, some clever and witty, some smooth-talking, some righteousness, some low-key humility, and some of them, although ferocious, but there is also a place of softness in the heart of the ......

Success It's no coincidence that in addition to reading books and writing wholeheartedly, Tong Yan confessed that life is the source of all creation. In order to accumulate more creative material and write excellent children's literature, Tong Yan has become the king of children. He patiently communicates with the children around him to tell stories, play games and teach martial arts, hoping to become friends with them. He used his summer and winter vacations to go to remote areas to teach, and keep correspondence with the children, hoping to enter the inner world of the children.

The Tongyin in creation is full of passion, while the Tongyin in life has a wide range of hobbies and a gentle character.

Writing only for interest

From the publication of his first article in 2000 to the present, Tong Yan has published more than 1,000 pieces of children's stories, novels, essays and other works in major journals,**** totaling 1.5 million words. When a reporter asked him if he would take writing as a profession to earn a living, Tong Yan shook his head: "I just take writing as my interest. I prefer to be free to listen to my inner voice and write without worries, to write something tangible that children can read and love."

The child said, "Writing for me, just a kind of spiritual expression of the need, is a kind of emotional catharsis, I do not know what I will write in the future, I just with my hobbies, with a love of literature and art to write."

Now, he has developed a habit of reading his articles to small children a few times after they are written to make sure they like to read and understand them. When he is not writing for children, he plays with them, teaches them martial arts and helps them revise their essays. "Being with children is also my interest, their innocence touches me y, and it's a pleasure to write some words for them when I'm not working or studying."

Social reports

Language Weekly 2005, Inside and Outside the Classroom 2006, Language World 2006, Youth Digest 2007, Shandong Youth 2007, Hebei Youth Daily 2007, Zhejiang Television 2008.8, Jiangxi Radio 2009.9, Hebei Satellite TV 2009.12, Yanzhao Evening News 2007 and 2012, People Weekly 2008, Years and Years 2010, Southern Weekend 2010, Literary Garden 2011, Composition for Middle School Students Famous Experts Recommendation 2011, Yanzhao Metropolis Daily 2012, Not Yours 2014.11.16, Colorful Language 2015.11, Language Weekly 2016.3, The Humor Master" celebrity interview 2017.5, "Close to Famous Artists" in Primary School Students Magazine 2017.11, Children's Literature 2018.12, Teenage Times 2018.11, Qianjiang Evening News 2022.5, People's Daily 2023.11, Junior Literature and Art 2024 June 2024, Celebrity Interviews September 2025

Character Evaluation

Tongyin's grades have been surprisingly excellent since childhood, almost always first in his grade for six years in elementary school, and later in a key provincial high school, where he won prizes in all kinds of English competitions, math competitions, and chemistry competitions during his school years, and his most outstanding performance was in literature.

The earliest excavation of the discovery of children's words is the former "Wuji Newspaper" editor-in-chief Fan Xu, who once commented on the children's words: children's words is the smartest and most talented of the children I've seen over the years, from the first piece of manuscripts he sent to me when he was in grade four to a piece of manuscripts after his secondary school exams and went to his hometown to pursue his studies, I can see that he is a very gifted and talented in literature, and it is a rare seedling of the literary field, and it is the first time that I've ever seen a child's name and name. I can see that he is an extremely gifted person in literature, full of talent, is a rare seedling in the field of literature, and he will surely shake the contemporary literary world in the future.

Tan Xudong, winner of the Lu Xun Literature Prize and a doctor of children's literature, said: "Tong Yan is a remarkable writer with extraordinary creativity, bringing a fresh wind to literature. Nowadays, the number of children's literature creators is increasing, and many authors are joining the team, but there are not many talented and diligent authors like Tong Yan.

Readers' comments: Tong Yan's work is like a piece of delicious pastry, the more people eat, the more they feel inadequate, a good-looking fairy tale, so that people always want to read in one breath.

Netizen comments: his fairy tale is very good, I will come back every year to re-read it, really good yo!

Student comments: Tong Yan is a legendary figure, his endurance, perseverance is convincing, can sit on a stool for several hours motionless writing, reading, completely forgetting everything outside. Every time he handed in his homework, he was the one who did the best; every time he memorized a text, he was the one who recited it the loudest; every time he wrote an essay, he was always the one the teacher read to the class; every day after school, he was the one who walked the latest; every time he took an exam, he was the one who got the highest total score.

Primary school teacher Yuan Mingyue's evaluation: I can not imagine a ten-year-old child is how to write that a book of diary, every day, every day to write, a few years down not a day of interruption, and all the handwriting is written so neatly beautiful, called people surprised.

College teacher He Shuying's evaluation: Tong Yan is a down-to-earth child, that is to say, more purposeful, he knows what he should do, he knows what he wants to do, in the literary creation of this piece of more than ordinary people to pay is also more.

Famous director and winner of the best director of the San Diego International Children's Film Festival, Cai Hua: The cause of children's speech is very pure, and it is a real children's industry. He writes books, creates children's literature, writes children's scripts and makes children's movies, all of which are the best children's works in China.

Teacher Cao Jing of Guizhou Primary School: He is a person with great love.

Famous host Tu Lei: from his books, he is a person with great love inside ...... his books I have read, the text is really good.

Famous entrepreneur and founder of Huayi Media, Du Zijian: As I approach my 50th year of life and go back to look at my past, I find that one of the most missing qualities in ourselves is a child's heart, which is one of the most beautiful and pure things, and we live too much of a secular life. Children's words, you keep, you leave this precious quality in you. No matter what you do in the future, where you go, don't throw away this good thing, it is pure, leave it.

Chinese mainland male host Tu Lei: What is the most difficult literary genre to write in the world? It is the fairy tale! He needs a child's heart, adult brain, vicissitudes of experience and optimism. So do not think that children's education is very simple is, coaxing children, that is not easy? Re! More difficult than adult education. Children's words, your clerical work is really good, but also need a certain experience to cast, I wish you better and better!

Representative works

Children's essay "Kasumi" (11 years old)

The Kasumi of this evening is so beautiful!

The setting sun crashed halfway up the mountainside, and the richly colored evening sunlight reddened the western sky, throwing wisps of red light, mesmerizing.

This light sprinkled in the green willow tops, filled with gusts of fairy gas, reflecting the willow leaves show a reddish color. The slightest wind slipped through, the leaves rustle, and the light flickered with the fluttering willow, spreading out a starry sky. The willow in the sunlight is wonderful, peaceful.

The haze poured over the tall buildings along the roadside, sending a radiant, sparkling, bright, like a lighthouse under the wave surface. The white walls turned red, the gray walls turned red, and the orange walls turned red. How beautiful! The buildings in the sunset are tranquil and harmonious.

The haze poured over every corner, over everyone, and everything changed. Everything was intoxicated.

The sun slowly sank, the red haze withdrew her soft light, the willows also slept, the buildings were quiet, and the pedestrians on the road became few and far between. The hazy river of the sky is getting deeper and deeper, and the clamor of the day is silent.