Ideal dimension and humanistic light —— A summary of children's novels with military themes in recent years ■ Chen Xiang Since the 21st century, Chinese contemporary children's literature has gradually entered a period of prosperity and development. The momentum of prosperity is reflected in the creation, publication, dissemination and other links. In particular, since the Symposium on literary and artistic work in October 2014, children's literature has achieved new potentials and breakthroughs in the creative noumenon of ideas, artistic techniques, themes and contents, and ushered in its own "golden age". In the early years of the 21st century, there are two writing trends in children's novels. One is traditional campus novels, and the other is fantasy, magic and adventure. Children's novels have entered the bottleneck of becoming more and more narrow in terms of writing objects and themes. The sense of history and freedom of children's novels need to be deepened and expanded. Under this background, children's novels with the history of revolutionary war and contemporary military life as the objects of expression are gradually rising. The masculine heroic narration and the spiritual charm of lofty ideals show the theme charm and aesthetic attraction different from other types of children's novels; The kind of "writing that transcends daily life and presents a broader world and life to children" has won the wide favor of children's readers, including parents, for many years. one In the overall territory of contemporary children's literature, a relatively small number of works reflecting the revolutionary war and military life are specially created for children. How the military theme and children's literature are isomorphic has become an urgent practical problem for writers. In recent years, many military writers have made new explorations and attempts in the field of children's novels. For example, Qiu Shanshan's novel Da Wa on the snow mountain (tomorrow press, 2019) tells that in the inaccessible military barracks on the snow covered plateau, the newly arrived puppy "Da Wa" and the young border guard Huang Yueyue have successively encountered severe tests such as thunderstorms, avalanches, extreme cold, snow capped mountains, and witnessed the life miracle and spiritual monument created by the border guards with tenacity, tenacity, faith and courage. The innovative exploration of this work is reflected in the application of restrictive Perspective (the narrative perspective of the dog "Da Wa") and the organic integration of the narrative mode of Bildungsroman. The passionate novel jinzhumami little Zaxi (hope press, 2021) describes the feelings of a Tibetan youth about joining the army, expresses the mission of a group of border guards, and sings a heroic Ode to the soul of the snow covered army. For another example, luyingmo's novel blue ocean steel (people's education press, 2020) describes the process of soldiers zhongjinze and military dog steel constantly overcoming difficulties and growing into independent warriors. They are not only completing the experience of life, but also achieving a deep understanding of themselves. Thus, the barracks theme and Bildungsroman are isomorphic. Wang Ke's kite is a flying fish (tomorrow press, 2021) and Gao manhang's father star (Xinlei press, 2021) go further and directly cut into childhood writing through a composite narrative structure. The former connects the vast ocean with the southern water town surrounded by rivers through the correspondence between fengjiayou, a soldier guarding the island, and the little boy AI Qi and the young Xia Shu who helped AI Qi read letters. On the one hand, it is a soldier who protects the motherland's sea with his life and blood on the harsh and lonely coral reef, and on the other hand, it is a simple and innocent child who grew up in a peaceful environment. The writer wraps the heroic stories on the Bihai islands and reefs in the personal growth narrative of children, and the daily life and military life go hand in hand. The latter adopts a dual narrative perspective (one is the restrictive perspective of children's soybeans, and the other is the omniscient perspective), which makes the internal structure of the works richer and fuller. The introduction of the theme of military camp life has realized the innovation and breakthrough of children's novels in life content, artistic techniques and value pursuit. In particular, the military life of blue sea islands and reefs, desert smoke and snowy plateau is a transcendence and supplement to the inherent daily life of children, which greatly enriches their experience and imagination of life and life. It should be noted that children readers have their own unique requirements for reading, accepting and appreciating literary works. The aesthetic essence of children's literature is inseparable from children's thinking characteristics and children's way of perceiving the world - rich story, appropriate grasp of narrative rhythm, distinct character images and so on. Simple, simple and powerful narrative techniques are popular with children. The language style of children's reading group is descriptive, concrete and sensory, so the narrative works written to them should be mainly descriptive language. Writers should strike a balance between the vividness, readability, literariness and artistry of their works. At the same time, the writing of children's novels requires writers to produce works with the texture of childhood life. Children's perspective often means the alienation of adults' rationality and experience. It is to perceive the external world from children's psychology and emotion. Only by being as close to the core of children's life as possible, infiltrating adults' care for childhood life, and fully observing children's inner freedom, pleasure and release, can writers find the most authentic life form of children. "Ai Qi wants to visit Nansha dad very much... In AI Qi's opinion, the places he hasn't been to outside the vertical River Street are far away. The distance and the distance should be not far away. It's like the stars live in the sky. It's easy to reach the next star when you reach one star." For example, the psychological description of the child protagonist in kite is a flying fish is a literary expression full of childlike innocence and interest. Zhang Ziying's novel airplane building (21st Century Press, 2021) tells the story of a girl named Xiao Zhu and her mother who followed her pilot father to the frontier flight regiment. The parents' pilots taught the children the mission and responsibility. The families in the aircraft building also supported the sky of love for the blue sky pride with trust and support. The work adheres to the children's standard, reproduces the unique life details of the air force compound, and is full of childlike fun and life texture. two The perspective of adults is always hidden in children's literature. The logic of dialogue and communication between adults and children constitutes the fulcrum of children's literature creation. How adult writers influence and expand children's spiritual world through their own experience and emotional experience is the core of children's literature writing. In recent years, the creation of war themed children's novels has gradually formed an upsurge, especially the "joining" of excellent military writers has led to the continuous emergence of excellent works. The number and quality of war themed children's novels have been improved from "fighting devils all over the mountain", "autumn of youth in summer in 1937", "going out of the savage mountain", "juvenile POW camp", to "fire seal", "youth's glory", "always follow", "general's alley", "wild bees flying", to "crossing the river youth", "the last score", "singing Crane" and "the sound of piano flying across the wilderness" published in the past two years, It also greatly enriches the connotation of realistic children's novels. The author once put forward in an article that the writing of current themes is not necessarily equal to the writing category of realism. Realistic writing points more to the spiritual connotation of realism. The spirit of realism requires writers to transform the difficulties, hardships and hardships of history and reality into struggles, ideals and beliefs, and use literary works full of spiritual dialectics and aesthetic tension to restore and sublimate real life, so as to make literary creation have lofty spiritual value; Timely capture and express the basic trend of the era of great changes, discover the basic context of historical development, and describe the great impact of historical changes on social life, as well as the changes in the fate of the people. The theme of revolutionary history is a typical literary writing full of realistic spirit. In recent years, war themed children's novels focus on returning to the historical scene and the true personality of children. At the same time, this group of children's novels try to break through the conventional mode of war novels, based on the children standard, and make the two elements of "war" and "children" more consistent. Instead of facing the scene of the war, they try to restore the historical scene as much as possible in the form of literature and try to approach the more real and universal living conditions of children in the war. When children react to the war in a direct way without the rational "tempering" of adults, it is possible to break away from the traditional discourse of war history and the adult context, and complete the re examination and writing of war, battlefield and history. The children's perspective is based on the "childlike" narrative ethics, which not only desalinates the cruelty and blood of the battlefield, but also avoids the shielding of childhood memories and emotions under the threat of collective memory, enriching our memories of war history and suffering. This is the childhood writing of the historical dimension and the construction of history from the perspective of childhood. In the extreme suffering and pain, the spirit of childhood burst out the power that can not be underestimated. The most pure and firm beliefs, the softest and most beautiful hopes are an indispensable part of childhood writing. These works show a broader picture of social life and daily life in the revolutionary historical environment. From the perspective of children's individual narration, they reproduce the living state and emotional spirit of children in the special era background. For example, lidonghua's the glory of youth (hope press, 2014) describes the daily life of several children in rural Shandong during the Anti Japanese war. We have seen the harm of war to childhood and the growth of Chinese folk Justice Force under the devastation of war; Huangbeijia's "wild bees flying" (Jiangsu Phoenix children's publishing house, 2018) tells the story of the "five schools moving westward" such as Yanjing University and Jinling University in the context of China's Anti Japanese war. The girl huangchengzi left Nanjing with her family and went on a hard journey. Her childhood under the fog of war was full of embarrassment and bitterness. The experience of supporting each other in leaving war made this period of time dazzling and gorgeous... From these works, We can all feel the broad and gentle feelings of home and country and the humanitarian spirit. Some works give children the identity of soldiers and let them face the war. However, it should be noted in these works that although they are young children with heroic temperament, they are always vulnerable groups in the war. They have a weak and confused side, but finally grow up in the war and gunfire, blood and tears. For example, Mao Yuner's out of the savage mountain (Changjiang children's publishing house, 2015) takes the child soldier xiaoxiami as the protagonist, and shows the vulnerability and unyielding of people in desperate situations with a kind of tragedy and tragedy of "living to death"; Xuetao's "fighting the devil all over the mountain" (Qingdao press, 2017) focuses on the childhood spirit and human light in the flames of war from the perspective, experience and growth of young soldiers in the Anti Japanese League Youth Camp; The final score by zhangpincheng (Changjiang children's publishing house, 2020) takes children as witnesses and speakers to tell about the establishment of the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic and the gradual development of football in Jiubao town. The fate of people from different backgrounds and industries is linked by small football. In addition to football, a game about "doctrine" has gradually divided the winner and loser. Xu Guixiang's "the sound of a zither flying across the wilderness" (tomorrow press, 2022), is the author