Plate is press and publication of China children's picture book published by the Head Office of the new works, history tells the legend of a bowl of rice. Authors with terraced fields in Yuanyang, Yunnan province, in the background, traditional Chinese solar terms for recording clues, respectively, rain, insects, tomb sweeping day, summer, Xiao man, and great heat, autumn, autumnal Equinox, dew and frost a few month for record nodes, main stages of farmers planting rice, through the diary narrative and a way for kids to come out of the picture. Green reading: why this book?
Yu Hong is: the end of 2013, Dali family go on vacation, choose to live in the village on the edge of Lake erhai, dad to do coach tours pastoral scenes, I had to accompany my mother. Sitting in the carriage bounced trembling through the fields, see many farmers bent over in his own an acre of three-point field weeding, harvesting, some rice fields stand in clumps of baled straw, remembered his big city living all the year round, inexplicably moved. People thought they may not like the big city seen so much of the world, nor of so many people in big cities, "ambition", from their backs, but I can feel a chilly sense of well-being. I believe they do as a farmer painting a picture book. But what to draw, how to draw has been bothering me all of a sudden. On top carriage af I was delirious when suddenly small when faced with a bowl of white rice raised doubts and imagination, so I decided to draw a book How do rice come. Green reading: listening to explain your edit, your picture book creation has always been prepared for the avalanche-like, can you share with us about the creative process?
Yu Hong is: because I originally thought this book was made into a popular science of humanity books, want to change people's impression of science books are cold hard knowledge, at the same time I also wanted to show the country simple, emotional side. So for the growth in the city of rice-everything was so strange for me, and for popular science books, the "accuracy" is actually more important than artistic. So I decided to go to village fields field trips, I believe I saw it firsthand all the content will make this book more vivid and accurate. Grown due to the mingling of mountains of single season rice, so the rice growing cycle is very long, early footage collection is rather time-consuming. In order to be able better to collect material, local farmers in the family of five stayed for a long time, also bought a telephoto and macro lenses for a rainy day. Green reading: in your opinion, the feelings of the people and their land today are alienated? How to regain that feeling?
Yu Hong is: precisely because of living in a big city, so deeply felt when food is no longer a problem of food and clothing today, they begin to demand more for organic products. Decades ago, not now, that of agricultural products we eat "organic food"? When they began the pursuit of efficiency, which takes a long time to grow natural things are becoming precious and expensive, and people of rural life also added a forward, may all of this phenomenon is not exactly prove that we leave this heart and land for too long. And I think the best way to regain that feeling is to educate our next generation, and future generations of children, let them know food was hard won, hands food should cherish, cherish. Green reading: who knows Chinese food, grain the old-fashioned way, is the first Chinese poem of most of the children in the back. After your painting, do you have a new understanding of this poem?
Yu Hong is: after 1.5 years of collecting folk songs and material collected, my understanding of this poem has a lot deeper. Compared to the wheat, corn, soybeans, rice planting operations, field management, production and processing but is much more complex and is worried about. Once I had a question, since the rice is too hard why I should plant it eats it? Later study discovered that a seed planted in rice, can be harvested in autumn hundreds, compared to the other staple crops, rice output is quite considerable. This does not prove one thing: put as much sweat as much. And rice is likely to have a variety of disease, production is also closely related to the favorable climatic and geographical conditions of the year. Might say that rice high-yielding, really needs to adapt to multiple factors such as heaven, Earth, people, this process is not only hard work, there are many factors beyond their control, to get a grain of rice can be said to be really hard. Although rice light flavor, not exactly so as to bring out the food's delicious. Author Yu Hong is also the author of the book of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai (CITIC press), 12 traditional festival--the Lantern Festival in China (Guizhou people's publishing house), as Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai was selected for the Beijing Youth Daily "new artist of the year 2015 green reading."
Dinner: every child should have a rice
Author: Shi Jun
My childhood was spent in a small city in Shanxi province.
At that time, had not so many high-rise buildings, there are no high-speed mobile phone, there is no concrete preparation of grey forest. At that time, we do not have readily available net purchases of fruit, fresh in the world. We have a spacious courtyard, just clumps of grass and weeds around the cricket, but Grandma in barren ground cultivated small gardens and to rounded great pumpkin, and aunt vegetable plots the most sweet cucumber and tomatoes, in their own little shirt casual CEng CEng, munching a sweet taste! At that time, we have no exciting computer games, much less know that plants vs zombies, we have lots and lots of real seeds, braised pulled children pitched in "vegetable garden" planted on our Green harvest of dreams. This is our childhood, I can't forget the good old days.
Open the book plate, a better feeling of crossing, sprang from the bottom up, it's a sense of heart and nature and life. This feeling has been away from our kids one day, I travel with children and going to the market to do natural history, casually picks up a handful of spinach, asked the children what it is. Children's answer varied, some say rape, some say Chinese cabbage, was also said to be cilantro, just none of the children say the correct answer--I felt mixed emotions.
Children have to leave the land in the city for too long, our children don't even know what a vegetable, not to mention those jobs distributed among the fragrance of white rice. I often think that children's lives should not be this way, their life should not be phones, computers, cloud athletic wrap; every child should have the opportunity to feel the joy of growth, every child should have access to the natural world window, each child should have a their own rice and wheat. The meal is a key to the door, let the children out of the city's barriers, to inhale the scent of nature, to feel the pulse of the natural, to go back to being a part of nature. The plate is a rhythmic poem, we feel it in the rice growing cycle is important. I can remember starting annual Qing Ming can hear grandmother repeatedly say, "qingming melon". At this time the pumpkin and green bean can be a full harvest. Or a year's time was soon gone. In the book, Hani people the same way, the rain season began rice paddy, planted rice on the insects themselves, in the summer before and after seeding inserted into rice fields. Xiaoman tiller, great heat at flowering, autumn season has been full of heavy corn! A year's hard work in the autumnal Equinox is the time in Exchange for a reward--Cheng huanggu grains become fragrant rice. Solar term is experience in dealing with the land of our ancestors, that's a standard timetable of activities, just like our class schedules as accurate. Solar terms is not just a simple noun, but a vivid beacon. When to sow and when to work, when to harvest, were hidden among the 24 words. Seeded of the season, missed, missed the best time of the year. From corner of the table, we can find the missing coins, but we cannot get back to those flowing from the fingers of time. Throttle not only makes us feel in a dull day time power forward, and it will make our lives more rhythm.
The dinner is a Grand Symphony of life, in which we can feel the greatness of the life process. Here "the arduous task of grain" and not just because rice farmers are soaked in sweat and embodies the legend of rice grain of life itself. From a small seed, Lotus rice seedlings, and the wind dancing leaves of rice plants, to the heavy lift head of rice seed-heads. All this from a seed, it brings us magical life show!
Our children have left the land for too long, they have not seen soft on the seed germination of root hairs, didn't feel hard granules on rice leaves, much less felt rice flower, rice flower, said that hopes for a good harvest and good wishes. Our children have left the land for too long, they don't breathe fragrance of the land, not touching seedling of softer, more tender spinach in the field was not the way. AWE and respect for life, is not an unreal feeling, but reading and understanding comes from the book of life.
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