Qin Wenjun's Collection of Fragrant Flowers - Narcissus Volume

Author: Jie Li
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Publish Date: 2005-05-23
Features: Qin Wenjun is one of the most important, representative, and transitional renowned writers in modern Chinese children's literature since the new era. Her artistic exploration has opened up new artistic spaces for the creation of contemporary Chinese children's literature and brought a brand-new aesthetic pleasure to contemporary Chinese young readers. Her novels possess a unique artistic structure, rich and vivid details, and a light, humorous tone and style. They are close to the times, close to readers, and close to the real lives and psychological realities of young people. She portrays the hearts of boys and girls filled with sunshine and fragrant flowers, while also depicting the awkwardness, complexity, and the joys and pains of transformation they face during their growth. Qin Wenjun has successfully created numerous artistic images of boys and girls, such as "Jiali the Boy" and "Jimei the Girl," which will forever shine in the hall of artistic images in children's literature. This collection is rich in content and has a unique style, featuring a flower-themed cover, floral chapter headings, and floral stationery. Each volume also includes letters written by the author herself to boys and girls. Additionally, it includes prefaces filled with floral fragrances written by ten renowned Chinese children's literature writers and critics for this collection. This series of works, much like the characters created by Qin Wenjun, exudes a youthful charm akin to flowers, making it highly collectible. This volume includes eleven short and medium-length stories such as "Brother-in-Law Arrives" and "Orphan Club." "Brother-in-Law Arrives" describes a strange phenomenon: the narrator constantly feels as though her brother-in-law is secretly watching her, because his mother is also always praising her everywhere. "Orphan Club" portrays a group of girls who, having left their parents, go to Shanghai to study and how they integrate into a new collective and resist various temptations from society. Their emotional journey from suspicion and jealousy to mutual trust and help is depicted. The short and medium-length works in this volume are extraordinary, unique, clever, wonderful, elegant, and light yet profound, like the fragrance of water lilies.