The Rabbit's Moon

Author: Wang Xiaoqing
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Konstantin Baudstovsky once praised the prose writer Prishvin as a "master who could write a long poem for every falling leaf." I feel that Wang Xiaoqing also possesses the talent to write fairy tales for every small tree, every blade of grass, and every little flower. With her fairy tales, she constructs a world of truth, goodness, and beauty, a world filled with conscience and a sense of justice. She pours her sincere and boundless love into all the small, beautiful, and kind-hearted lives in the world, guarding, encouraging, and celebrating them with her warmth and love. At the same time, she sees the resilience and dignity of life, as well as the poetic and lovely aspects of life, in them. Her fairy tales are not only filled with lyrical charm and rich poetic imagery but also reflect her respect and understanding of children's pure, kind, curious, friendly, and innocent nature. Every protagonist in her fairy tales comes from her careful observation and imagination of nature, as well as her genuine experience and delicate perception of the human emotional world. The little grass person longing for home, the lucky little duckling, the spring water heading to the sea, the small beetle, the old ferry boat and the tree, Grandma Mustard, happiness and sorrow, the invisible wind, the snowman, the old man of time—even a black-headed matchstick, a piece of paper, or an unremarkable sour jujube could all become the main characters of her fairy tales. The fairy tale storyteller endows them with life, personality, likes and dislikes, and experiences. They are all little spirits that fly out from the fairy tale storyteller's heart and fantasy realm. Like the deep homesickness conveyed in The Little Grass Maiden, especially the longing and nostalgia for the lost natural homeland; or like the imagination and praise of the old man of time's diligent, tolerant, and selfless spirit in The Gift of the Old Man of Time, all of these works reflect the fairy tale storyteller's profound reflections on the value of life, the meaning of life, and the fate of humanity. These works, in the treasure trove of contemporary Chinese fairy tales, shine with a warm and noble light.