Research On Practice And Concept Of Children’s Literature About Mao Dun

During the May 4th Movement,Mao Dun embarked on the road of children’s literature under the impetus of "human discovery" and "children’s discovery".Mao Dun was the pioneer of children’s literature.He and Sun Yuxiu compiled western children’s literature works,which gave birth to children’s literature in the true sense.At the same time,Mao Dun broke the previous practice of introducing fairy tales in classical Chinese and started the vernacular era of children’s literature.Since the May 4th Movement,children’s literature has generally praised children and it indulged in children’s world.He has adjusted a rational attitude towards children’s literature from the beginning,and he paid attention to the educational function of children’s literature,its purpose is to guide children to the road of life.Mao Dun’s concept and practice of children’s literature inherited his literary idea of "for life",it was also an important part of Mao Dun’s practice of left-wing literature.His practice of children’s literature is based on children’s standard,emphasizes the enlightenment connotation of his works,guides the healthy development of Chinese children’s literature,and promotes the development trend of Chinese children’s literature towards realism.The first chapter discusses the background of Mao Dun’s practice of children’s literature,and expounds the origin of Mao Dun’s practice of children’s literature from two aspects of personal work and era background.The commercial press attaches great importance to children’s books,which directly urges Mao dun to embark on the road of children’s literature,but also restricts Mao dun’s text selection direction.However,during the May 4th Movement,the two major trends of thought of "human discovery" and "child discovery" updated Mao Dun’s understanding of children,which made Mao Dun to compile children’s literary works in a more planned way,and made his practice of children’s literature to move from spontaneous to conscious.The second chapter discusses Mao Dun’s literary theory of children’s literature,from which Mao Dun’s concept of children and children’s literature are summarized.Mao Dun realized that children are unique life forms in biological attributes and independent individuals in social attributes,so children exist as "children of life".Based on this concept ofchildren,Mao Dun believes that children’s literature is one of children’s problems.Children’s biological attribute requires children’s literature to be story-telling and interesting.Children’s social attribute requires children’s literature to be scientific so as to become the literature needed to educate children.The third chapter discusses Mao Dun’s compilation and compilation of children’s literature,and discusses the enlightening connotation of these works from three aspects of scientific books,fairy tales and myths: satisfying children’s desire for wisdom with scientific books,encouraging children’s essential beauty with fairy tales,and inspiring children’s imagination with myths.These texts not only help children understand the material world,but also attach importance to the construction of children’s spiritual world,which is the concrete manifestation of Mao Dun’s imagination of children.The fourth chapter discusses Mao Dun’s creation of children’s literature from two aspects:the theme of his works and Mao Dun’s writing attitude.On the one hand,his creation of children’s literature belongs to "revolutionary paradigm" and "salvation theme" works,aiming at constructing children’s images with class consciousness and national feelings through texts.On the one hand,his creation of children’s literature focuses on the life predicament and mental state of the children at the bottom,aiming to let children see the real world and society see the real life of children through the text.During this period,Mao Dun’s text began to change from attaching importance to individuals to appealing to groups.The fifth chapter discriminates the value of Mao Dun’s children’s literature practice.Mao Dun’s practice of children’s literature has moved from talking about children to talking about rational individuals and ideal countries.When he introduced new styles for children’s literature,demonstrated his creation and expanded the themes of children’s literature,he emphasized that the text should shape the ideal character of children.This kind of person with ideal character is the "new person" in Mao Dun’s heart.In the process of practice,Mao Dun’s children’s literary works were veiled with utility by shaping the new people’s urgent mood.He paid too much attention to the ideological and educational value of children’s literature,which reduced the children’s and interesting elements in some texts.Mao Dun no longer wrote only for children.Generally speaking,his children’s literature practice imagines new individuals byimagining children,and realizes his belief in constructing ideal individuals and ideal countries from the perspective of constructing ideal children.