{"id":1062,"date":"2008-07-29T12:43:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T04:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2025-09-14T09:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:54:35","slug":"ajia_pic_talk_2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/2008\/07\/29\/ajia_pic_talk_2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Argen\u00adtine Primera Divisi\u00f3n: What is the use of pic\u00adture books? (Record\u00ading)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s9.sinaimg.cn\/orignal\/5881300c4532265dfa948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n: What is the use of picture books? (Recording)\" src=\"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5881300c4532265dfa948.jpg\" alt=\"\u963f\u7532\uff1a\u56fe\u753b\u4e66\u6709\u4ec0\u4e48\u7528\uff1f\uff08\u5f55\u97f3\u6574\u7406\uff09\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Decem\u00adber 19, 2007<a href=\"http:\/\/bbs.idoican.com.cn\/viewthread.php?tid=38164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201c2007 Top 10 Chil\u00addren\u2019s Books\u201d Press Con\u00adfer\u00adence<\/a>(Speech on<\/p>\n<p>*Note: The fol\u00adlow\u00ading is a com\u00adpi\u00adla\u00adtion made by an edi\u00adtor friend based on the record\u00ading (<a href=\"http:\/\/baobao.sohu.com\/20071219\/n254188311.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to the orig\u00adi\u00adnal text<\/a>), maybe I didn\u2019t explain some things clear\u00adly at that time, and the mean\u00ading of the sort\u00aded out is a bit unclear. I have mod\u00adi\u00adfied it here with blue font.<\/p>\n<p>Let me talk about the \u201cmed\u00adi\u00adc\u00adi\u00adnal\u201d val\u00adue of pic\u00adture books. Pic\u00adture books are very use\u00adful, but it is dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to clear\u00adly define their spe\u00adcif\u00adic uses.<\/p>\n<p><b>The pur\u00adpose of lan\u00adguage<\/b><\/p>\n<p>First, let\u2019s talk about lan\u00adguage. Pic\u00adture books are often crit\u00adi\u00adcized for hav\u00ading too few words. Buy\u00aders often think that with so few words, they\u2019re use\u00adless. How\u00adev\u00ader, it\u2019s impor\u00adtant to under\u00adstand that in a good pic\u00adture book, the images play a vital role, and the text does\u00adn\u2019t take a back seat. Of course, the pic\u00adture books I\u2019m talk\u00ading about here also include word\u00adless books, but that\u2019s an excep\u00adtion. Most pic\u00adture books com\u00adbine text and images. The text is sub\u00adject to cer\u00adtain con\u00adstraints, but it strives to ful\u00adfill its role. This strict dis\u00adci\u00adpline is very sim\u00adi\u00adlar to the writ\u00ading of poet\u00adry. There\u00adfore, the text of a good pic\u00adture book tru\u00adly is like poetry\u2014poetry and paint\u00ading.<br>\nLet me give you a few exam\u00adples. If I had to give you some exam\u00adples, I would\u00adn\u2019t give you any\u00adthing else but the books that made the list this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188312.gif\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188312.gif<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is \u201cCourage,\u201d a book I was for\u00adtu\u00adnate to trans\u00adlate. There are many kinds of courage, some ordi\u00adnary, some awe-inspir\u00ading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188313.gif\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188313.gif<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In short, no mat\u00adter what kind, courage is courage. This is a play\u00adful one: rid\u00ading a roller coast\u00ader, your face turns green from the shock, then you have the courage to do it again, and then you\u2019re scared green again. Courage is know\u00ading there\u2019s a moun\u00adtain and con\u00adquer\u00ading it. Courage is explor\u00ading space and the depths of the ocean. Courage is the grass break\u00ading through the snow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188314.gif\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188314.gif<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pic\u00adture books are some\u00adtimes heart\u00adwarm\u00ading chil\u00addren\u2019s poems, which I par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188315.gif\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188315.gif<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Dad eats as much as a horse, swims as fast as a fish, is as strong as a goril\u00adla, and as hap\u00adpy as a hip\u00adpopota\u00admus.<br>\nThis is \u201cThe Taste of the Moon.\u201d What does the moon taste like? Is it sweet or salty? I real\u00adly want to taste it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188316.gif\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188316.gif<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ani\u00admals always think this when they look at the moon at night. How\u00adev\u00ader, no mat\u00adter how they stretch their necks, arms and legs, they can\u00adnot reach the moon. It\u2019s very inter\u00adest\u00ading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188317.gif\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188317.gif<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some pic\u00adture books are like roman\u00adtic nar\u00adra\u00adtive prose poems, like \u201cFlower Granny,\u201d in which a girl lives in a small house by the sea, sur\u00adround\u00aded by blue, pur\u00adple, and pink flow\u00aders. Who says pic\u00adture books have few words? Every word here is worth a thou\u00adsand gold. Good writ\u00ading is tru\u00adly won\u00adder\u00adful.<br>\nIn addi\u00adtion to learn\u00ading Chi\u00adnese, they also need to learn Eng\u00adlish. I specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly picked a book that my daugh\u00adter has recent\u00adly loved, \u201cDr. Seuss\u2019s Bilin\u00adgual Clas\u00adsics.\u201d That book series also hap\u00adpened to be on the list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188318.gif\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188318.gif<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recent\u00adly caught a cold and looked a lit\u00adtle sad, so she used the words in the book to tease me: Dad is sad.<br>\nVery, very sad. \/ He had a bad day. \/ What a day Dad<br>\nhad!<\/p>\n<p>Chil\u00addren, espe\u00adcial\u00adly between the ages of two and five, often have the abil\u00adi\u00adty to absorb lan\u00adguage. As chil\u00addren grow old\u00ader, they retain this abil\u00adi\u00adty, though they may not ful\u00adly absorb it, but they do have a strong sense of lan\u00adguage. The ques\u00adtion is: what kind of lan\u00adguage should we feed our chil\u00addren?<\/p>\n<p><b>For artis\u00adtic pur\u00adpos\u00ades<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Each pic\u00adture book is incred\u00adi\u00adbly beau\u00adti\u00adful, so I won\u2019t list them all. The pic\u00adture books on this year\u2019s list are also quite unique. From Novem\u00adber of last year to this year, I count\u00aded over 300 excel\u00adlent pic\u00adture books intro\u00adduced. Many of these excel\u00adlent books aren\u2019t even on the list. Among the books on the list, I took a clos\u00ader look and saw that they all rep\u00adre\u00adsent dif\u00adfer\u00adent styles. For exam\u00adple, the most impres\u00adsive ones, like \u201cLit\u00adtle Black Fish,\u201d men\u00adtioned by Teacher Chen, are abstract; \u201cMy Dad\u201d is sur\u00adre\u00adal; there\u2019s also the very real\u00adis\u00adtic style of \u201cFlower Granny\u201d; and \u201cThe Taste of the Moon,\u201d with its mur\u00adal-like style and strong three-dimen\u00adsion\u00adal effect, all have styles. But it\u2019s not just about look\u00ading beau\u00adti\u00adful, or being pret\u00adty.<br>\nFor exam\u00adple, this book (Lit\u00adtle Blue and Lit\u00adtle Yel\u00adlow) doesn\u2019t seem to be very beau\u00adti\u00adful. Some peo\u00adple think that if some\u00adthing is beau\u00adti\u00adful, it should be rich. Of course, if it is rich, it can also be beau\u00adti\u00adful, but some\u00adtimes it can also be beau\u00adti\u00adful if it is not very rich.<br>\nI\u2019d like to specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly men\u00adtion the book \u201cLit\u00adtle Blue and Lit\u00adtle Yel\u00adlow.\u201d Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor Chen just men\u00adtioned \u201cThe Lit\u00adtle Black Fish.\u201d Their artist, Lion\u00adni, is anoth\u00ader one of my favorites. He was a tal\u00adent\u00aded artist as a child and mar\u00adried at 19. Some say mar\u00adry\u00ading too young is a mis\u00adtake, but mar\u00adry\u00ading at 19 was a bless\u00ading. At 20, he fled to the Unit\u00aded States for polit\u00adi\u00adcal rea\u00adsons. Mus\u00adsoli\u00adni came to pow\u00ader when he was 20, and the father of his wife was a co-founder of the Ital\u00adian Com\u00admu\u00adnist Par\u00adty. He had already been a promi\u00adnent fig\u00adure in Italy, a rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtive of Futur\u00adism. He pur\u00adsued graph\u00adic design and art in the Unit\u00aded States, and lat\u00ader served as pres\u00adi\u00addent of the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Insti\u00adtute of Graph\u00adic Design\u00aders for 10 years, hold\u00ading a high\u00adly respect\u00aded posi\u00adtion in the art world. Because he mar\u00adried young, he like\u00adly had sons ear\u00adly, his sons mar\u00adried young, and he also had grand\u00adchil\u00addren ear\u00adly. At 49, he fre\u00adquent\u00adly took short trips, and on the train he brought his two grandchildren\u2014becoming a grand\u00adfa\u00adther at 49, and with two chil\u00addren, it was quite a com\u00admo\u00adtion. What should he do? He picked up a mag\u00ada\u00adzine at ran\u00addom. Graph\u00adic design\u00aders always have to car\u00adry a mag\u00ada\u00adzine with them, Life mag\u00ada\u00adzine. He tore the pic\u00adtures inside into round blocks of yel\u00adlow, blue, green and oth\u00ader col\u00adors, spread them out in a black brief\u00adcase, and began to tell a sto\u00adry: This is Lit\u00adtle Blue, this is Lit\u00adtle Yel\u00adlow \u2014 this is his debut work.<\/p>\n<p>He lat\u00ader cre\u00adat\u00aded many excel\u00adlent pic\u00adture books, many of which have been exhib\u00adit\u00aded around the world, and many of his works have become bench\u00admarks in graph\u00adic design. But he lat\u00ader said some\u00adthing quite unbe\u00adliev\u00adable: \u201cOf all the art I\u2019ve cre\u00adat\u00aded, I con\u00adsid\u00ader the first page of Lit\u00adtle Blue and Lit\u00adtle Yel\u00adlow, the first page of the book, to be my most per\u00adfect work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Want to see what this page looks like?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188319.gif\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188319.gif<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is what Lionel Mes\u00adsi con\u00adsid\u00adered to be the most per\u00adfect of all his artis\u00adtic cre\u00adations.<\/p>\n<p>What is art? This actu\u00adal\u00adly leads us to think: Why? Of course, there are many rea\u00adsons. You need to under\u00adstand the per\u00adson, under\u00adstand his style, and use cer\u00adtain tech\u00adniques, such as adding at least two lines. It\u2019s very inter\u00adest\u00ading to see, even though it\u2019s a sim\u00adple page, it\u2019s still very sophis\u00adti\u00adcat\u00aded. From the col\u00ador to the struc\u00adture and for\u00admat: why must it be square? Why is it so? There are many rea\u00adsons. What theme did he want to express? Through\u00adout his life, Leo Lion\u00adni sought to express a theme in his works:<b>Who am I? Know your\u00adself<\/b>\u2014\u2014This is Xiao Huang, and this is Xiao Lan. They are stand\u00ading in the mid\u00addle of the pic\u00adture, a lit\u00adtle high\u00ader. Per\u00adhaps they used the most appro\u00adpri\u00adate method and the most appro\u00adpri\u00adate form to express the ideas they want\u00aded to express most accu\u00adrate\u00adly. This may be art.<\/p>\n<p>What is art, real\u00adly? Can chil\u00addren under\u00adstand it? Adults might won\u00adder, \u201cIf even I can\u2019t see it, how can it be con\u00adsid\u00adered a good paint\u00ading?\u201d Many peo\u00adple wor\u00adry about this, includ\u00ading many oth\u00ader works. It does\u00adn\u2019t mat\u00adter. Chil\u00addren read dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly than we do. They enjoy it, they enjoy it from the heart. They read it if they need to, and they enjoy it if they want to. That\u2019s good enough. There\u00adfore, I believe pic\u00adture books can have a pro\u00adfound impact on this kind of artis\u00adtic edu\u00adca\u00adtion. I deeply admire some of the tru\u00adly remark\u00adable artists abroad who are will\u00ading to cre\u00adate works for chil\u00addren. Of course, this has to do with our mar\u00adket and the per\u00adspec\u00adtives of adults.<\/p>\n<p>See\u00ading the work done by Xiong Lei and Xiong Liang, I also admire them very much. In addi\u00adtion to art, cul\u00adtur\u00adal her\u00aditage is actu\u00adal\u00adly very impor\u00adtant.<\/p>\n<p><b>For chil\u00addren\u2019s diverse devel\u00adop\u00adment<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188320.jpg\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188320.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beyond our lan\u00adguage, there\u2019s also ongo\u00ading dis\u00adcus\u00adsion about its diverse uses, iden\u00adti\u00adfy\u00ading and rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00ading its poten\u00adtial func\u00adtions. Let me give you a few exam\u00adples, like the sto\u00adry of \u201cCroc\u00ado\u00addile Falls in Love with Giraffe.\u201d The croc\u00ado\u00addile and the giraffe are so dif\u00adfer\u00adent, yet they both want to inter\u00adact. The croc\u00ado\u00addile falls in love with the giraffe and wants to show it his sweet\u00adest smile. The giraffe can\u2019t see because it\u2019s too tall, and its head is always halfway up in the clouds. The croc\u00ado\u00addile tries a lot of tricks, like putting a rope around the giraffe and say\u00ading, \u201cLook at my sweet\u00adest smile!\u201d What hap\u00adpens? The giraffe gets star\u00adtled and shakes its neck, send\u00ading the croc\u00ado\u00addile to the hos\u00adpi\u00adtal. This, too, is a form of inter\u00adac\u00adtion; it\u2019s tru\u00adly about inter\u00adac\u00adtion, how to inter\u00adact with peo\u00adple.<br>\nThere is also \u201cBig Feet Dances Bal\u00adlet\u201d, which can be said to be about music. It is so beau\u00adti\u00adful, come and feel it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188321.gif\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188321.gif<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obser\u00adva\u00adtion\u00adal intel\u00adli\u00adgence. \u201cA Falling Leaf\u201d is also a new clas\u00adsic. It\u2019s very beau\u00adti\u00adful and allows you to observe the world togeth\u00ader through this book. It\u2019s a pho\u00adto\u00adgraph\u00adic pic\u00adture book that uses pho\u00adtos to express the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188322.gif\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188322.gif<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal and log\u00adi\u00adcal intel\u00adli\u00adgence. The snake \u201cCrick\u00adet\u00adta\u201d was able to lis\u00adten to lec\u00adtures and, after com\u00adplet\u00ading them, became self-taught. The num\u00adbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 were all trans\u00adformed from the snake Crick\u00adet\u00adta, and he also pos\u00adsessed math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal abil\u00adi\u00adties, though of course, they were some\u00adwhat forced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188323.gif\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188323.gif<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intro\u00adspec\u00adtive intel\u00adli\u00adgence. In fact, every good pic\u00adture book has intro\u00adspec\u00adtive fea\u00adtures, includ\u00ading \u201cLit\u00adtle Blue and Lit\u00adtle Yel\u00adlow.\u201d \u201cChick\u00aden Carmela\u201d\u2014all the chicks lay eggs at their appoint\u00aded time, but it\u2019s this lit\u00adtle chick, Carmela, who kicks rocks and lays, always lays. There are always more inter\u00adest\u00ading things in life than lay\u00ading eggs\u2014isn\u2019t this intro\u00adspec\u00adtion?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188324.gif\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188324.gif<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are many more to list than this. I once made a list, which was quite enter\u00adtain\u00ading. But I think this is just for fun, and don\u2019t take it too seri\u00adous\u00adly. It def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly has this func\u00adtion, but we don\u2019t nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly have to think about it that way.<\/p>\n<p><b>For a healthy per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty and a hap\u00adpy life<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Some researchers empha\u00adsize a more holis\u00adtic approach, argu\u00ading that the greater sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcance of shar\u00ading pic\u00adture books with chil\u00addren lies in help\u00ading them devel\u00adop a healthy per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty and lay a sol\u00adid spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal foun\u00adda\u00adtion for a life\u00adtime of hap\u00adpi\u00adness. In oth\u00ader words, hav\u00ading courage isn\u2019t about learn\u00ading a spe\u00adcif\u00adic area, but about fac\u00ading life with humor and being pos\u00adi\u00adtive and coura\u00adgeous. For exam\u00adple, books like \u201cMy Dad\u201d and \u201cLit\u00adtle Blue and Lit\u00adtle Yel\u00adlow\u201d allow chil\u00addren to savor and expe\u00adri\u00adence the bond of fam\u00adi\u00adly and friend\u00adship, as well as the roman\u00adtic love of \u201cCroc\u00ado\u00addile Loves Giraffe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Love is actu\u00adal\u00adly very impor\u00adtant, and where love comes from is also cru\u00adcial. This is espe\u00adcial\u00adly true when teach\u00ading chil\u00addren about love. When pub\u00adlish\u00aders say it\u2019s dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to talk about love with five- or six-year-olds, let me put it this way: from kinder\u00adgarten, ele\u00admen\u00adtary school, junior high school, high school, col\u00adlege, to grad\u00adu\u00adate school, has any\u00adone ever taught us a spe\u00adcif\u00adic course on love? No! We all learned it blind\u00adly. Why can\u2019t we lay this foun\u00adda\u00adtion for chil\u00addren from the age of five or six? We should do this.<\/p>\n<p>For exam\u00adple, there\u2019s \u201cFlower Granny,\u201d which tells a sto\u00adry about set\u00adting high aspi\u00adra\u00adtions in an ordi\u00adnary or extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnary life, which I find tru\u00adly remark\u00adable. Also, \u201cA Falling Leaf,\u201d which explores the mean\u00ading of life, is also remark\u00adable.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s also one way of say\u00ading it.<\/p>\n<p><b>For a hap\u00adpy fam\u00adi\u00adly<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s anoth\u00ader point, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly rel\u00ade\u00advant to the par\u00adent-child read\u00ading we\u2019ve been advo\u00adcat\u00ading for in \u201cPar\u00adents Must Read,\u201d that pic\u00adture books are actu\u00adal\u00adly very help\u00adful for hap\u00adpy fam\u00adi\u00adlies. Nao Mat\u00adsui always reminds us to think of pic\u00adture books as books that adults read to chil\u00addren.<\/p>\n<p>My daugh\u00adter is 8 years old. She can read nov\u00adels, but if I have the chance every night, I will still read books like this to her. She will not read such books by her\u00adself first. Some\u00adtimes she will look at the pic\u00adtures and then say, \u201cDad, please read to me.\u201d This is a kind of plea\u00adsure. It is dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to explain the joy of this kind of plea\u00adsure \u2014 I can only bor\u00adrow the words from the fairy tale and say that they lived hap\u00adpi\u00adly ever after.<\/p>\n<p>Let me show you some pic\u00adtures on the \u201cBlue Kan\u00adga\u00adroo\u201d web\u00adsite. It is beau\u00adti\u00adful for a child to read \u201cGuess How Much I Love You\u201d by her\u00adself. It is even more beau\u00adti\u00adful when her moth\u00ader reads it to her. It is even more beau\u00adti\u00adful when her par\u00adents read it togeth\u00ader. It is very warm and a hap\u00adpy fam\u00adi\u00adly begins from now on. This is also an \u201cadver\u00adtise\u00adment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188325.jpg\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188325.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Use\u00adless Use<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The use\u00adful\u00adness of \u201cuse\u00adless\u00adness.\u201d Hav\u00ading said all this, I\u2019ve always held onto a belief: if we view pic\u00adture books sole\u00adly in terms of their use\u00adful\u00adness, we\u2019re often under\u00ades\u00adti\u00admat\u00ading them. The bet\u00adter the book, the less spe\u00adcif\u00adic its pur\u00adpose. And the more you approach shar\u00ading it with chil\u00addren with a sense of use\u00adless\u00adness, the more use\u00adful it may be. The great\u00adest strength of pic\u00adture books is their abil\u00adi\u00adty to help chil\u00addren devel\u00adop a love of read\u00ading. This love, beyond sim\u00adply under\u00adstand\u00ading read\u00ading, involves learn\u00ading to love itself. It\u2019s a uni\u00adver\u00adsal love: love for one\u00adself, love for oth\u00aders, love for life, and love for the world. I can demon\u00adstrate why those who love pic\u00adture books tend to love the world.<br>\nLook at how the seeds of this pic\u00adture book are sown, how the seeds of hap\u00adpi\u00adness are sown, every\u00adone take a look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188327.jpg\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188327.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the sto\u00adry, the flower lady, Miss Lu, dis\u00adcov\u00adered such a beau\u00adti\u00adful flower. She col\u00adlect\u00aded the seeds, bought and gath\u00adered them, and scat\u00adtered them along the road. By the spring and autumn of the fol\u00adlow\u00ading year, beau\u00adti\u00adful flow\u00aders bloomed every\u00adwhere, and the chil\u00addren also learned to pick flow\u00aders and sow seeds.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few years, from rough\u00adly 2003 until now, many such peo\u00adple have emerged in main\u00adland Chi\u00adna. What do they do? They go to kinder\u00adgartens, libraries, and schools to tell sto\u00adries and read pic\u00adture books to chil\u00addren.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188328.jpg\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188328.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So these peo\u00adple are some\u00adtimes called Grand\u00adma Hua, Uncle Hua, Dad\u00addy Hua, or Aun\u00adtie Hua. This is Dad\u00addy Hua shar\u00ading the book with the chil\u00addren. You can see it\u2019s quite inter\u00adest\u00ading: Dad\u00addy Hua is sit\u00adting on the floor with the chil\u00addren, pre\u00advent\u00ading them from bump\u00ading into the pro\u00adjec\u00adtor.<\/p>\n<p>This is at the Cap\u00adi\u00adtal Library. This is our sec\u00adond year of train\u00ading for seed sto\u00adry\u00adtellers. Vol\u00adun\u00adteers come to the library, learn through con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions and cours\u00ades, and mas\u00adter basic knowl\u00adedge and skills in read\u00ading to chil\u00addren. They then go to libraries, kinder\u00adgartens, and schools to tell sto\u00adries with chil\u00addren. It\u2019s a joy. This is the Chil\u00addren\u2019s Library at the Cap\u00adi\u00adtal Library. They seem to be experts here, too, telling sto\u00adries. If you look close\u00adly, you can see \u201cCric\u00adta\u201d on the table.<br>\nLet\u2019s take a look at what warmth is and what a har\u00admo\u00adnious soci\u00adety is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188329.jpg\">http:\/\/photocdn.sohu.com\/20071219\/Img254188329.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a cake. It\u2019s very hap\u00adpy. This is \u201cMy Book\u201d and \u201cThe Very Hun\u00adgry Snake\u201d. It\u2019s very inter\u00adest\u00ading. Make books into cakes. Books can be so fra\u00adgrant and deli\u00adcious.<\/p>\n<p>So, for a child, books con\u00adtribute to a hap\u00adpy life. For adults, we may not have the time to be that hap\u00adpy, but I believe they still con\u00adtribute to hap\u00adpi\u00adness, or at least enrich our lives. For a group, for a soci\u00adety, I think they def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly con\u00adtribute to a har\u00admo\u00adnious soci\u00adety.<\/p>\n<p>Because of pic\u00adture books, they, you, and we live hap\u00adpi\u00adly togeth\u00ader from now on.<\/p>\n<p>This is my bless\u00ading, thank you every\u00adone.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\uff082007\u5e7412\u670819\u65e5\u5728\u201c2007\u5e74\u5ea6\u7ae5\u4e66\u6392\u884c\u699cTop10\u201d\u53d1\u5e03\u4f1a\u4e0a\u7684\u53d1\u8a00\uff09 *\u6ce8\uff1a\u4ee5\u4e0b\u662f\u4e00\u4f4d\u7f16\u8f91\u670b\u53cb\u6839\u636e\u5f55 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,170,23,12,1],"tags":[5,74,10,26,73],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-170","category-timemachine","category-ajia-review","category-thoughts","tag-5","tag-74","tag-10","tag-26","tag-73"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5881300c4532265dfa948.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}