The Origin of Deer Dance, a Japanese national picture book highly praised by Miyazaki Hayao, has been selling well for 30 years, and I met Spirited Away for the first time in Miyazaki Hayao. Many people like the exquisite scenes inside, and any part is a masterpiece.
I'm telling you now, in fact, these scenes are based on those described by Kenji Miyazawa in Night on the Galaxy Railway. Miyazaki Hayao himself also highly praised Kenji Miyazawa, and Studio Ghibli once produced a cellist Gao Xiu to commemorate Kenji.
Kenji Miyazawa, who are you?
In China, his name may not be well known, but in Japan, his name can be said to be a household name. His work Brave the Storm was included in the textbook, and The Kenji Miyazawa Picture Book Series was also selected in Selected Books of Japan Library Association and Selected Fairy Tales of Textbooks. As a national picture book, it has been selling well in Japan for 30 years.
In 2000, a survey was conducted in Japan, and readers freely voted for "your favorite Japanese writer of this Millennium". Kenji Miyazawa ranks fourth, far ahead of Osamu Dazai, Junichiro Tanizaki, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Abe's official residence, Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami.
20 16 coincides with the 20th anniversary of Kenji Miyazawa's birthday. The Japanese specially set up an executive committee to commemorate Kenji Miyazawa's birthday120th anniversary, and a large number of cultural activities to commemorate Kenji appeared all over the country, headed by Han Juan, Kenji Miyazawa's hometown.
Kenji Miyazawa lived only 37 years old. The people in his works are as simple and complicated as his works, and his themes are also diverse. Because he spent most of his life dealing with nature, he created a rich imagination, and his works also contained profound thoughts on nature, life and death, human nature and other issues.
The Origin of Deer Dance is one of Kenji Miyazawa's many masterpieces. This time, a famous Japanese illustrator was invited to bring readers a visual and spiritual feast with a style close to the original and bright colors.
When the picture book is opened, it is a scene of sunset. The red sunset is infected with white Miscanthus, swaying in the breeze.
Seeing this reminds me of Wang Bo's "Sunset and Lonely Qi Fei, Autumn Water and One Color", which is probably such a beautiful scenery.
In such a beautiful scene, the story officially unfolded and told us a legendary story about "deer dance".
The young Jiashi sat on the grass eating a seven-leaf ball and looked at the surrounding scenery while eating. Tall alder and clusters of Miscanthus swaying in the wind, he didn't feel hungry for the time being, although he had been desperately on his way.
He decided to leave the last seven-leaf jiaozi to the deer.
When he
I put the food down, and soon found that the towel on my neck had dropped, so I went back to look for it.
He hid in the grass of Miscanthus and found six deer approaching the food.
But these deer didn't eat the seven-leaf ball, but they were interested in the towel left by Jiashi and kept circling around.
Harvest should hear the dialogue between deer and deer.
Six deer tried to touch the humanoid towel one by one, and each time they ran away in fear. However, as more and more deer joined the temptation, the deer became bold. The last deer started running directly with a towel in its mouth, and the other deer circled around it.
Soon the towel became dirty, and the deer became tired, and began to eat jiaozi with seven leaves.
After eating the seven-leaf jiaozi, the sun just hung in the middle of the alder, emitting afterglow. The deer lined up and began to sing and praise nature. They sang, danced and circled together.
Jia Shi, who was hiding in the grass and eavesdropping on the deer, finally ran out to join the deer, and the deer were scared to escape from the awn grass.
Against the backdrop of the red sunset, they kept jumping in the white Miscanthus, just like elves. Harvest also picked up the dirty towel and left.
This is the story about "Deer Dance".
Some people say that the fairy tales it writes are not only suitable for children to read, but also suitable for adults to read. Children can stimulate their imagination in reading, while adult readers can think about life.
The color of the whole picture book is particularly bright, and each page can bring different visual impacts, which can be used as children's aesthetic enlightenment reading materials. My children especially like to watch it, and the pictures in the picture book are also very vivid, especially the frightened deer, which makes you feel immersive.
For me, I think more about the information of this book.
Some people say that it conveys the harmony between man and nature, but I think it conveys a kind of natural rejection of man, reminding human beings to keep awe of nature at all times for three reasons:
1, the towel left by Jiashi was placed in the shape of a "person", which is undoubtedly symbolic. These six deer keep getting close to the towel, which is actually a temptation in disguise, because their own kind is hurt. There was once a fox who "bloomed in his mouth" because he ate human food.
2. Jiashi left the food for the deer. It seems that this is a friendly hand extended by human beings to nature, but these goodwill make the deer fight, spend time exploring and worry.
Except the scene in the sunset on the first page of this book, I was greatly shocked. There is also a picture of deer lining up to watch the sun. They stood up and sang about nature like worshipping the sun.
Animals can't live without nature, so they are full of awe of nature, while humans can't live without nature, but they enter it at will.
Jiashi's seven-leaf jiaozi is made from the fruit of aesculus chinensis, and he and his grandfather also live by reclaiming land and growing grain.
And Jia fantasizes that he has integrated into nature, but these are only selfish ideas of human beings, and nature has not accepted them at all. Finally, the deer ran away, and this is the answer.
There is a saying that shortening the distance between people is not always better. Man, like nature, can only survive for a long time by keeping a corresponding distance and maintaining awe.
The Origin of Deer Dance, with its striking style and Kenji Miyazawa's exquisite and meaningful words, can always give children and adults a double reading experience.
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How to bookmark the colorful deer in China's apotheosis story? Draw colorful deer heads and sharp horns first, then draw eyes, fork horns and irregular antlers, then draw nose, neck hair and slender limbs, and then add some grass and trees.