Lin Xiao: Poetry, make life better

Poetry, make life better

Author 丨 Lin Xiao

If you use a word to describe the beauty of childhood, I am afraid that there is no more appropriate and more appropriate than these four words, that is -poetic childhood. As the saying goes: Children's heart is poetry. Children are naive, carefree, and have rich imagination. In this sense, the child is a natural poet. Poetry is a childhood firefly, illuminating the innocent dream of children.

Recently, I read such a news in the media: In Guangdong, there is a "poetic contract" that has continued for 13 years. So far, countless children have been accompanied by countless children and spending happy childhood. In 2010, the first "Guangdong Elementary School Student Poetry Festival" sailed; in 2019, the Guangdong Elementary School Poetry Festival was upgraded to become the elementary school poetry season of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area; in 2021, the number of contributions in the poetry season exceeded 100,000, and the number of participants exceeded 60,000. The total number of views on a network platform is nearly 10 million. For more than 10 years, more than 3,000 schools have been attracted, and millions of children have released their poems here. This year, the curtain of the elementary school poetry season opened again. Within half a month, the organizer of the event has received nearly 10,000 submissions to ignite the childlikeness of Nanyue's land. Childhood with poetry is undoubtedly happy. Compared to some children who are addicted to mobile phones, computer games or fun, children who like to read and write poetry are richer in the inner world. This poetic companionship will also affect the growth of children in the future.

It can be said that activities like elementary school poetry season are of great benefit to the growth of children, and they will plant poetic seeds in the child's young heart field, so that they know that in addition to the test and scores, there is a habitat for the soul. Essence Here, the birds are traveling in the sky, the fish stroll in the water, the cloud is the quilt of the dream, the fireflies are looking for the direction of the home ...

Come and read such a poem: "The lights put a hole in the night/hot" "What do you ask me to do before birth/I answer/I pick my mother in the sky" "The tree I painted/too beautiful/Next to draw The bird/painting cloud/painting pond and flowers/flowers are not worth it. " These verses are from the hands of the children. Whenever I read such words, my heart can not help but be gently hit. While admiring the children's beautiful imagination, I also feel that the world of adults is so rushing and reality.

Someone once teased that they were busy working all day long. "There was no time to go to the toilet." Although it was exaggerated, it also revealed the current state of many people. If "busy" becomes daily, day after day, year after year, it cannot be changed for a long time. Where can there be poetic at all? Relatively speaking, children who read and write poems have true happiness, but how long can this happiness last? With the child growing up slowly, he was promoted to junior high school and high school from elementary school, and he worked hard for his homework and scores all day. Looking back, his poetic was drifting away.

Compared with the popularity of "Elementary School Poetry Season", the daily life of middle school students is replaced by more homework and training. Although quality education and burden reduction have been raised for many years, the effect is not obvious. The reform and improvement of the education system are still on the road. From a large -scale perspective, poetry is a kind of empathy with beauty, and more is a sense of view and a state. Although it is not necessarily obtained by reading and writing poetry, reading is the most direct arrival. One of the ways of poetic state.

In the face of life, we may not change anything, but we can start with ourselves and family. As an adult, after being busy, you may wish to put down his mobile phone and hold a book, and Ren Shuxiang is filled, which is the closest time to the poetic life. As an education department and school, in addition to homework and examinations, you may wish to leave some spare time to let the students get close to reading. There is poetic in their hearts and life is more exciting.

[About the author] Lin Xiao, young writer, poet, media, Yongzhou, Hunan, now lives in Qingyuan, Guangdong. See the "People's Daily", "Poetry", "Literary News", "Chinese Young Writers", "Star Poetry", "Young Writers", "Poetry Tide", "Prose Poetry" and other newspapers. Chinese Young Poet Award. He has authored the poems "Beyond the Red Dust", "Friends Don't Cry", the novel "Bitter Summer", and the comments "Comment", etc., won the Bingxin Children's Literature Award and the second Yanyi Poetry Award.

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