Why do you need to set off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year?
Who are the two door gods posted at the door, one left and one right?
"Lanxiao" was once the name of a little girl?
In the past, Chinese people followed the solar terms and looked at the calendar to live their lives. Every custom has its meaning.
It is also necessary for Chinese children to understand traditional festivals.
This set of "Chinese Traditional Festival Stories" compiles 16 ancient folk stories into a book in the order of Chinese traditional festivals and solar terms
After reading it, children will find that Chinese stories are so beautiful!
A set of 8 books, each of which has two stories:
Spring Festival: "The New Year's Beast A Nu", "The General's Station Gate"
Lantern Festival: "The Lantern Girl", "The Sky Lantern Shines Peace"
Qingming Festival: "Mazu Lin Mo Niang", "Cold Food and Qingming Festival"
Dragon Boat Festival: "Zhong Kui Catches Ghosts", "Legend of White Snake"
Chinese Valentine's Day: "The Magpie Bridge of Qiao Girl", "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl"
Zhongyuan : "Mulian saves his mother", "The Lonely Hand in a Small Town"
Mid-Autumn Festival: "The Secret in Mooncakes", "Wu Gang Cuts the Osmanthus Tree"
Winter Solstice: "The Fire-headed Monk A Er", "Glutinous Rice Mountain Fruit"
Have you never heard of some stories?
Adults and children can also increase their knowledge and feel the beauty of tradition. The story in the book of children's literature writer Lin Liang
is rewritten based on folk legends of Taiwanese children's literature.
Lin Liang was born in 1924. His ancestral home is Tong'an County, Fujian Province. He is accustomed to publishing essays under the pen name " Zimin ". He writes for young readers with the real name "Lin Liang". He is the "Grandpa Lin Liang" mentioned by young readers. In 2005, he retired as the chairman and publisher of Mandarin Daily and continued to engage in writing after retirement. He has taken children's literature as his lifelong aspiration and has written for children for more than 50 years. He has formed a connection with young readers through the column "Looking at pictures and speaking" and has also resonated with readers with the book "Little Sun". He has won the Zhongshan Literary and Art Creation Award and other awards. He is the first chairman of the Taiwan Children's Literature Society. He created and translated up to 200 children's literature and was called the "master" by the Taiwanese children's literature community.
Buddler Qi Graduated from the History Department of Fu Ren University. After quitting his job as a reporter from Taiwan's Minsheng Daily at the end of May 1991, he has been writing at home and has worked hard in the field of children's literature and has written a lot. At present, more than 300 volumes of creation, translation and rewrite works have been published in Taiwan, and more than 100 volumes of works have been published in mainland China, Hong Kong, , Malaysia, and other places. He has won many awards, such as the Best Children's Books in Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany, the Taiwan Chinese Children's Literature Award, the Golden Tripod Award, etc.
Hong Yinan was born in 1944 at the edge of the Confucius Temple in Dalongdong, Taipei City. He has won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Comics, the Golden Tripod Award, the Chinese Children's Golden Book Award, etc. His works include dozens of books such as " Journey to the West ", "The Flying Fish Season of the Yamei", "Shuibizi", "Daughter's Spring", and "Journey to the West", and have achieved remarkable results. He has never stopped writing for 40 years. He passed away in 2011 and spent his whole life enjoying comics and illustrations.
Cao Junyan was born in Dadaocheng, Taipei in 1941. He has served as art editor of the Chinese Children's Books Editorial Group, editor-in-chief of Xinyi Foundation, free creator, etc. For fifty years of working in children's literature and art, not only has a creator with diverse creations and experienced senior editors, but also an educational promoter. He is known as the king of ideas in Taiwan's children's literature and an all-round expert in Taiwan's children's book industry who has written, edited, spoken and taught. More than 200 picture books and illustration books have been published so far.
Please click this for each story to have its own style! 13 illustrators match the story with vivid pictures and slowly read it, just like watching a movie.
The amount of text on each page is very suitable for children to read. Children who still don’t recognize words can only look at illustrations.
◎The content is rich, including both the stories that everyone knows and the stories with local characteristics of Taiwan. The stories selected by
◎ All contain moral education of friendship, integrity, gratitude..., but they have no preaching meaning and can allow children to understand it themselves.
◎The text is beautiful, simple, but has a sense of picture and imagination. It is a good text worth reading for children repeatedly.
The stories in "Chinese Traditional Festival Story" have different styles:
Please click this " Years Beast A Nuo (nuó)" to enter the picture description
In the legend, "Nian" is a monster that loves to eat people; in the picture book, the New Year beast is drawn very cute, and he also exchanged names with people and became friends.
Illustration: Ye Huijun, she painted this story lively, colorful, and soft and warm.
"General Station Gate"
Why does the Dragon King look for the emperor every night? The reason was that the Dragon King and the fortune teller made a bet?
illustration: Huang Shuhua, this series of illustrations are all crayon drawings, and children can also draw accordingly.
"Zhong Kui Catches Ghosts"
Zhong Kui fights the "shameless" king, guess what is the most effective against shameless?
illustration: Hong Yinan, who has won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Comics, the Golden Tripod Award, the Chinese Children's Golden Book Award, etc. His paintings are vivid and every expression is vivid.
"Mazu Lin Mo Niang"
There are many Mazu temples along the southeast coast, and people also call her "Holy Mother in the Heaven". It is said that Mazu was very special when she was born, and she didn't cry until the full moon. She was proficient in magic and medical skills at the age of 13...
Illustration: Ye Huijun.
"Miss Qiao's Magpie Bridge"
On the Chinese Valentine's Day this year, Magpie did not come. However, the magpie embroidered by Magpie flew up and helped the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl build the bridge. The Weaver Girl gave Qiao Girl a treasure...
illustration: Wu Jiahong.
16 stories, simple words and exquisite painting style,
allows us to feel the various emotions in the work while reading the story:
Expectation, warmth, sadness, gratitude...
There are also a lot of practical things in the book. At the beginning of each book, there is an introduction to festivals and folk customs. It is written by Li Fengqing, professor of of Taiwan University of Political Science and Technology,
The end of each book is accompanied by explanations and introductions of 24 solar terms.
After reading this set of books, you can understand the connection between festivals, customs, food and climate. These are all the wisdom passed down by our ancestors.
Of course, you don’t need to think too much, just simply enjoy reading is also great.
"Chinese Traditional Festival Stories", a set of 8 books, each with two stories, a total of 16 stories.
is accompanied by the book, and there are two door gods New Year pictures . It’s almost the New Year. Such a door god is pasted on the door, and it looks like it.
