Thanks to Huang Jian\u00adping for this great arti\u00adcle! It seems like any inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion of Lionel Messi\u00adna, the fab\u00adu\u00adlist in the pic\u00adture book, is just right.<\/p>\n
Every\u00adone can have their own inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion. Although I\u2019m for\u00adtu\u00adnate to have trans\u00adlat\u00aded \u201cAfu the Field Mouse,\u201d I feel I can nev\u00ader com\u00adpare to Afu as a poet. How\u00adev\u00ader, I still firm\u00adly believe that one does\u00adn\u2019t have to be a poet like Afu; any mediocre per\u00adson like me has the right to be lost in thought, col\u00adlect\u00ading sun\u00adlight, col\u00adors, and words.Orig\u00adi\u00adnal address:<\/strong>Lionel Mes\u00adsi and his field mouse Alfred<\/a>author:<\/strong>Red Mud Study Group<\/a>1959<\/a>In 1959, at the peak of his career, Lionel Leo Lionel planned to retire at 50 to pur\u00adsue a more cre\u00adative life and move from New York to Italy. It was at this time that a chance encounter led him to his life\u2019s work. Now a grand\u00adfa\u00adther, Lionel was tak\u00ading his two young grand\u00adchil\u00addren home by train. To pass the time on the long jour\u00adney, he casu\u00adal\u00adly tore off some col\u00ador\u00adful scraps of paper from a mag\u00ada\u00adzine and cre\u00adat\u00aded a sto\u00adry for the children\u2014Little Blue and Lit\u00adtle Yel\u00adlow. This marked the pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtion of his first chil\u00addren\u2019s book. Huang Jian\u00adping<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u8c22\u8c22\u9ec4\u5efa\u840d\u7ae5\u978b\u7684\u597d\u6587\u7ae0\uff01\u5bf9\u4e8e\u56fe\u753b\u4e66\u4e2d\u7684\u5bd3\u8a00\u5bb6\u674e\u5965\u5c3c\uff0c\u4f3c\u4e4e\u600e\u4e48\u89e3\u8bfb\u4e5f\u4e0d\u8fc7\u5206^_^ \u6bcf\u4e2a\u4eba\u90fd\u53ef\u4ee5\u6709\u5b8c\u5168\u5c5e\u4e8e\u81ea\u5df1\u7684\u89e3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[23],"tags":[240],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timemachine","tag-240"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","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=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7184,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/7184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nOver the next 35 years, Lionel Leo wrote\/illustrated more than 40 chil\u00addren\u2019s books, four of which won the Calde\u00adcott Medal.
\nInch\/One Inch Worm (1961 Calde\u00adcott)
\nHon\u00ador book), Swim\u00admy (1964)
\nCalde\u00adcott Hon\u00ador book),
\nFred\u00ader\u00adick (1968)
\nCalde\u00adcott Hon\u00ador Book), Alexan\u00adder and Wind-up Mouse
\n(1970 Calde\u00adcott Hon\u00ador
\n(book).
\nLionel Leo is a mas\u00adter sto\u00adry\u00adteller. His books tell chil\u00addren about many seri\u00adous top\u00adics such as shar\u00ading, coop\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion, main\u00adtain\u00ading indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty, peace, human rights, etc., but there is no moral preach\u00ading in his books, because he always uses cute ani\u00admal images to impress chil\u00addren all over the world, mak\u00ading them feel that his books are first of all fun and inter\u00adest\u00ading. As for the pro\u00adfound truths con\u00adtained in the books, I believe that chil\u00addren will slow\u00adly expe\u00adri\u00adence them through\u00adout their lives.
\nLionel Leo Lion\u00adni\u2019s books cov\u00ader a wide range of sub\u00adjects. Hav\u00ading wit\u00adnessed and per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly expe\u00adri\u00adenced the rise of fas\u00adcism in Europe, and as a mem\u00adber of an inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal anti-fas\u00adcist orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion (main\u00adly com\u00adposed of intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adals and artists), his strong advo\u00adca\u00adcy for peace and human rights is often reflect\u00aded in his sto\u00adries. For exam\u00adple, *The Alpha\u00adbet Tree* was writ\u00adten dur\u00ading the Viet\u00adnam War; *Tillie and the Wall* was pub\u00adlished eight months before the fall of the Berlin Wall; and *Nico\u00adlas, Where Have You Been?*
\nIt talks about over\u00adcom\u00ading prej\u00adu\u00addice. It\u2019s fair to say that every one of Lion\u00adi\u2019s books deserves dis\u00adcus\u00adsion, but due to time and space con\u00adstraints, I\u2019d like to focus on the first Lioni book I read, and my favorite, about the lit\u00adtle field mouse, Alfon\u00adso. Before dis\u00adcussing Alfon\u00adso, I can\u2019t help but praise Aji\u00ada\u2019s trans\u00adla\u00adtion. Alfon\u00adso is tru\u00adly spot-on, cap\u00adtur\u00ading the play\u00adful\u00adness of the field mouse while also high\u00adlight\u00ading the Bud\u00addha-like state Alfon\u00adso has attained. The orig\u00adi\u00adnal name is Fred\u00ader\u00adick. Could you share how you came up with the trans\u00adla\u00adtion?
\nIn a pre\u00advi\u00adous email, I men\u00adtioned the impact Fred\u00ader\u00adick the field mouse had on me, and I\u2019ll repeat it here to avoid leav\u00ading read\u00aders con\u00adfused. I remem\u00adber when I first heard the sto\u00adry\u2019s beginning\u2014everyone was busy work\u00ading, but Fred\u00ader\u00adick was laz\u00ading in the sun\u2014it imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly remind\u00aded me of a child\u00adhood les\u00adson, \u201cThe Cold-Weath\u00ader Bird.\u201d Like Fred\u00ader\u00adick, the cold-weath\u00ader bird in the sto\u00adry leisure\u00adly enjoyed the sum\u00admer sun while every\u00adone else worked, only to die of cold and hunger because it had\u00adn\u2019t stored enough food for win\u00adter. At the time, I thought that for\u00adeign writ\u00aders, like our Chi\u00adnese teach\u00aders, should edu\u00adcate chil\u00addren to study hard from a young age to avoid freez\u00ading or starv\u00ading to death (that\u2019s how my teacher sum\u00adma\u00adrized the cen\u00adtral idea for us). How\u00adev\u00ader, the sto\u00adry\u2019s end\u00ading was com\u00adplete\u00adly unex\u00adpect\u00aded, fill\u00ading me with envy and resent\u00adment: enjoy\u00ading sun\u00adshine and beau\u00adti\u00adful scenery in Chi\u00adna could lead to star\u00adva\u00adtion, but in Amer\u00adi\u00adca, it could make you an artist! From then on, the new con\u00adcept of stor\u00ading sun\u00adshine and col\u00ador was deeply etched into my mind, pro\u00adfound\u00adly influ\u00adenc\u00ading my life ever since.
\nBy com\u00adpar\u00ading Fred\u00ader\u00adick the Siber\u00adian bird to Fred\u00ader\u00adick, I\u2019m not say\u00ading that all Chi\u00adnese peo\u00adple have a Siber\u00adian bird-like mind\u00adset, or that all Amer\u00adi\u00adcans or West\u00adern\u00aders have an Fred\u00ader\u00adick mind\u00adset. Nor am I say\u00ading that most peo\u00adple in the sub\u00adsis\u00adtence stage are like the Siber\u00adian bird, or that most peo\u00adple in the afflu\u00adent stage are like Fred\u00ader\u00adick. In fact, every coun\u00adtry and every social class has both types of peo\u00adple. Dur\u00ading a gath\u00ader\u00ading at the Nation\u00adal Day hol\u00adi\u00adday, I talked to my Ger\u00adman friend about Fred\u00ader\u00adick, and she said it was also her favorite. I then told her the sto\u00adry of the Siber\u00adian bird, and she imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly declared her\u00adself a Siber\u00adian bird-like per\u00adson. She said that the food stored in her refrig\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtor is always enough for her whole fam\u00adi\u00adly for a week; she can\u00adnot tol\u00ader\u00adate hav\u00ading enough food for only one or two days. She always makes ample prepa\u00adra\u00adtions in advance. There\u00adfore, dif\u00adfer\u00adent coun\u00adtries and dif\u00adfer\u00adent social class\u00ades have both the Siber\u00adian bird and Fred\u00ader\u00adick, rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00ading two dif\u00adfer\u00adent ways of life\u2014what Fromm called \u201cpos\u00adses\u00adsive\u201d and \u201csur\u00advival-ori\u00adent\u00aded\u201d lifestyles. Those who live by pos\u00adses\u00adsion want to pos\u00adsess everything\u2014to have every\u00adthing they can think of in advance, to have every\u00adthing under their con\u00adtrol, the so-called \u201cPre\u00adpare the\u2026\u201d
\nfuture (what Tiger Mom always says); those who val\u00adue sur\u00advival take things as they come. They pay more atten\u00adtion to the present and try to enjoy the present as much as pos\u00adsi\u00adble, instead of turn\u00ading every moment into a prepa\u00adra\u00adtion for the future and los\u00ading its own mean\u00ading.
\nI must admit that I\u2019ve always been raised and thought like the cuck\u00adoo: As a child, I dili\u00adgent\u00adly exer\u00adcised self-denial, for\u00adgo\u00ading sun\u00adlight and vibrant col\u00adors to avoid freez\u00ading and starv\u00ading in win\u00adter. After grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading from col\u00adlege and enter\u00ading the work\u00adforce, I worked even hard\u00ader to secure a bright future. As a moth\u00ader, I pre\u00adpared my chil\u00addren for their own futures to avoid a cuck\u00adoo-like fate. It was\u00adn\u2019t until I turned 40 that I sud\u00adden\u00adly real\u00adized that both the dread\u00aded win\u00adter and the bright future lie in a tomor\u00adrow I can nev\u00ader reach. This cuck\u00adoo-like sense of urgency led me to neglect the present, turn\u00ading every moment into a prepa\u00adra\u00adtion for the future, com\u00adplete\u00adly ignor\u00ading the very exis\u00adtence of the present because I only focused on future goals. With\u00adout today, how can there be tomor\u00adrow? If we live our entire lives for tomor\u00adrow, then we\u2019ve nev\u00ader tru\u00adly lived. We might as well learn from the lit\u00adtle field mouse, Afu, and live as much as pos\u00adsi\u00adble in the present moment. If stor\u00ading grain and nuts seems fun, then join the effort and save them. If such labor is bor\u00ading and you\u2019d rather sit qui\u00adet\u00adly and admire the sun\u00adshine and col\u00adors, then ful\u00adly enjoy the moment, with\u00adout dwelling on whether you\u2019ll starve in the win\u00adter. Afu impart\u00aded to me a non-cling\u00ading mind\u00adset: ful\u00adly savor the sun\u00adshine when you can, and embrace the cold win\u00adter when it arrives, com\u00adpos\u00ading poet\u00adry for every\u00adone. This is not the usu\u00adal cling\u00ading or entan\u00adgled mind\u00adset: enjoy\u00ading the sun\u00adshine while wor\u00adry\u00ading about star\u00adva\u00adtion in the win\u00adter, then regret\u00adting not work\u00ading hard\u00ader to store more food and instead focus\u00ading sole\u00adly on enjoy\u00ading the sun\u00adshine. In this sense, Afu was a high\u00adly accom\u00adplished Zen prac\u00adti\u00adtion\u00ader. No won\u00adder many regard this book as a yog\u00adic prac\u00adtice. In fact, it\u2019s not just for yogis, but also for Bud\u00addhists and all prac\u00adti\u00adtion\u00aders of all tra\u00addi\u00adtions who desire to live in the present moment.
\nTo all those who love Alfred the Field Mouse, while you\u2019re busy \u201cstor\u00ading win\u00adter food,\u201d don\u2019t for\u00adget to take a break and enjoy the sun\u00adshine and beau\u00adti\u00adful scenery before you. Don\u2019t always make stor\u00ading sun\u00adshine and col\u00ador a beau\u00adti\u00adful goal, wait\u00ading until this job is fin\u00adished, until your annu\u00adal salary reach\u00ades a cer\u00adtain lev\u00adel, until the chil\u00addren grow up\u2026 No one knows what will hap\u00adpen when that time comes. We always think that the good life has not yet begun, but in fact it is already fad\u00ading. The only thing we can grasp is the present moment.<\/p>\n