On The Aesthetic Substance In Zhou Zuoren’s Children’s Literature Propositions

As a cultural celebrity in modern China,Zhou Zuoren is not only making contributions to exploring the theme and style of prose creation,but also showing a tendency towards children’s physical and mental growth on his children’s literature opinions.At the same time, he advocated that the children literary works should be suitable for children’s nature. In the early 20 th centurywhen he travelled to Japan to study abroad, Zhou accessed to the works of Yanagita Kunio, and then began to pay close attention to children’s literature, therefore, Zhou started thinking the problems that the children may face to in the process of their growth. Zhou Zuoren used the primitive men’ mode of thinking which the concept of folklore and a description of the developmental psychology for children in different growth stage to find the value and significance of the battle in children’s world. Zhou disagree with the adults interfere the fight among children.After returning, Zhou participated in the nursery movement from Beijing university and began to collect folk songs. When he was more than fifty, he wrote a collection of poems called Children Chore Poem which give way to the contemporary children who is losing innocent because of the broken information barriers.