Under the impact of modern civilization,folk culture has gradually lost its original living environment,and it is urgent to change the inheritance mode and adapt to the development of modernization.Picture books gradually show their advantages as the carrier of folk culture inheritance with their narrative way of graphic ensemble.Picture books with folk festivals and folk stories on the market have become an important way for children to understand folk culture.CAI Gao is one of the representatives of China’s original picture books.Her picture book Boa(formerly Known as The Wild Garden Fox Spirit)won the "Golden Apple" Award at the 14 th Bratislava International Children’s Book Exhibition(BIB)in 1993,and she also became the first Chinese to win the award.CAI Gao is very good in the adaptation and redrawing of traditional stories.The themes of picture books include folk literature such as folk stories,fables and nursery rhymes,as well as adaptations of classic works such as Strange Tales from A Chinese Studio.His works have strong folk characteristics,showing the living inheritance characteristics of the integration of folk culture and picture books.Professor Zhao Shiyu pointed out that "inheritance" is the core of folklore,while inheritance is the inheritance of memory.From the perspective of memory,this paper takes the folk culture presented in CAI Gao’s picture book as the research object,by combing the creation background and text structure of CAI Gao’s picture book,analyzes the folk memory content and narrative reconstruction characteristics of picture books,and summarizes the value of CAI Gao’s picture book for the inheritance of folk culture.Adaptation and repetition is a common technique for picture books to deal with folk stories and other folk content.Folk stories and other folk culture contents are an integral part of folk memory.CAI Gao’s familiarity and flexible use of folk culture make folk culture rely on the carrier of picture books,radiate new charm in modern society,and continue to be passed on in readers’ reading and sharing.The first part is the introduction,introducing the research background,research status,research object,research methods and so on.The second part starts from the creation background of Cai Gao,and analyzes the reasons of his "folk" orientation and the creation history of picture books.CAI Gao’s life experience can be divided into three periods,namely,the period of folk culture nourishment,the period of folk culture internalization and the period of folk culture conscious expression.In the first two periods,Cai Gao was constantly influenced by folk culture.In the third period,Cai Gao gradually integrated folk culture into the creation of picture books and published a series of works.The third part analyzes the folk memory in Cai Gao’s picture book.In his nearly40 years of picture book creation,CAI Gao has created a series of picture books on folk culture themes,including folklore,folk stories and nursery rhymes,which contain the folk memories of local people.The fourth part discusses the reconstruction of folk memory by Cai Gao’s picture book creation.Folk stories and other folk cultures should adapt to children’s reading habits to repeat the content and display the pictures.CAI Gao’s reconstruction of folk memory is based on the transformation of children’s language and cognition to image the cultural inheritance.In particular,"Hua Mulan" and "Meng Jiangnu" should coordinate the relationship between cultural inheritance and children’s standard.The fifth part analyzes the value of CAI Gao’s picture book for the inheritance of folk culture based on the above content.CAI Gao’s retelling and repainting of folk culture is to meet the reading habits of —— children,the target readers of picture books,and to convey folk culture to the audience with picture books as the carrier.The value of CAI Gao picture book to folk culture includes identifying and carrying forward folk culture,inheriting folk culture,retelling and sublimating folk culture. |