The game spirit and humanities of Mood Fairy Tale

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  Mr. Xiaoming Wang, who is the veteran in the Fairy Tale Book world, has made great achievements and brought children the wonderful individual work of Mood Fairy Tale in 21st century, refreshing young readers. Apparently, Mood Fairy Tale is a new concept which different from traditional sense. Mr. Xiaoming Wang explains: “I have always thought, there should be some high and farther story in contemporary Chinese fairy tales. Only be touched by something, somebody, somewhere in life, feel from heart then it’s true fairy tale.” Now the “Wang xiaoming fairy tale picture book” is his retrospective among his ten years work. The biggest feature of Mood Fairy Tale is that the book is permeated with the game spirit. Highlights in the followings:
  Children based. Xiaoming Wang’s Mood Fairy Tale knows the children’s psychology. For example: When the cat teacher ordered the baiyun kitty walked on the road at night, not allow him to make any sounds. But in his mind is: “ Hope the whole city wake up to look at the teacher’s power and prestige.” It reflects the children’s worship of the teacher and the envy of the teaching profession. (A Cat Wants to Be A Teacher). Maipi wants to buy the fish bones cake, which no store sells to celebrate mom’s birthday, because he saw mom only eat fish bones before, reflecting children’s na?ve (Fish Bone Cake). Bunny wants to strive for the peace of the world with delicious cakes. His logic is, mom will put good stuff into his mouth as long as he was unhappy. (Smiling Cake). Under the author’s pen, not only animals are personified as human beings, but the cookies and toys are all personified, sun, moon, stars and clouds are all characters in the story, door-god, kitchen-god are all in the story. Some of the XiaomingWang’s works are the continuation of the childhood games. He wrote in A’Wu: “ Some thatch flower, pine fat and fantastic “food” tasted in childhood, as well as mimosa, wondering what would happen to my body after eating them, didn’t dare to try it. Now write them into my fairy tales, let A’wu try them all.” A’wu in the story devours and never gave to others so that he was getting fatter and fatter. A’Wu would like to have some vegetables but took mimosa by accident, so that became quiet and shy. So the mimosa means sensitive plant by literal.
  Comedy effect. As in “Fat Radish Got Sick”, the fat radish pretends to be sick for comforts, makes friends visit him with gifts. Fat radish was delighted inside, but keep eyes closed tightly, showing he is in pain, let friends all feel sorry for him and cry. Fat radish found his friends’ tears are tasty. Then he confessed: “ Apple’s tears are sweet, orange’s tears are a little bit sour, melon’s tears are more sweet than honey.” Foreshadowing what will happen next. While he “let all the taste buds drowning in the tears” with mixed feelings, something happened, because “the whole mouth is bitter and spicy, fire and burn”, tears running. When he opened his eyes, seeing it’s bitter gourd and pepper’s crying. This style of telling story is like “throw the package” in cross-talk. Again, as in the Tabby Bread, the little tiger who acts as the scarecrow for 3 minutes was lazy, lost the “tabby”, so that lost tiger power and prestige, regretted a lot. Everybody was helping him to find it, finally found the tabby on the steamed bread. The little tiger was so excited to eat up the bread, the tabby was showing on his body come with sweating. To keep his tail sweating, he put it under the sun and acts as the scarecrow again, hang on the tail highly, very lovely.   Relationship Conversion. As in Vacation, Shi Dage had a long vacation, came to an uninhabited island to relax completely. Kindness let him to float a drift bottle, telling everybody about the benefits of outdoor life. With the geometric growth of the population of the island, living needs and appropriate services are developed. Shi Dage has been elected as the mayor of the island, but suddenly found it’s contrary to his original intension to the island. Again, as in The Bird Bought A Airplane, Mr. bird wants to buy the airplane, for the reason of: “Will not be afraid of sun or rain, and let it’s tired wings rest if bought an airplane.” The Birds have their own plans and life changed since then: they moved their home from the tree to the land for keeping the plane; because the plane became their car, so that their wings and feet all degenerated; they were on “Fortune” magazine and became famous, interviewed by press and fashion salon; to avoid crash in the air, “must keep distance far as the fight couple do, then become the divorced couple: one heads to west the other heads to east, so that live a separate life”, they will always worry about other’s safety. Then they realized that: buying the planes goes contrary to their original wishes. Hippo Drinks Coffee is the story about little animals help the hippo who drinks too much coffee to fall asleep, hippo help other little animals listen to class, do homework. This kind of helping each other established in the ridiculous logic, very ironic.
  Mr. Xiaoming Wang is a painter and writer with humanity and philosophy. In many fairy tales, reflecting the author’s social conscience and cultural consciousness, his concern about the real situation and the vision of an ideal humanistic. Toad’s Shangri-La is responding to the frogs who lost their homes due to ecological damage opened their mouths to pick on the water from the air conditioner of the second floor. The Room With No Lights is about “not only urban, even suburb cannot see fireflies”. Luo’er turned off the lights of the room in order to invite the fireflies to home. Fireflies in the forest all came over listen to his story, Luo’er with fireflies around him, lightening. The work made reflection of modern civilization.
  Kindness is also a main theme of the Mood Fairy Tale. Tang Suit Shop tells a story about the rabbit mom was notified that the old business store has to be removed. She didn’t ask about the new place since the price was too high, so that she has to move to a place far away. On the way of moving, she ran into a second-hand auction which is the lower price more competing. Rabbit mom purchased a very low price beautiful store just at the edge of the street. It turned out to be that rabbit mom’s self-esteem, she didn’t want to accept others’ help so people arranged this auction for her so that she could accept. In Snow Station, Children were familiar with the Santa appearing among the crowds of the train ticket station. He wants to get a ticket, to make a mother’s wish of seeing her children come true. But he could stand for too long in the line, he wants to find a quiet station. However he came to a discarded station with no tickets to be sold. And miracle came, a train stopped, because “the Santa in red suit looks like the traffic lights”. The captain jumped off the train, saw the Santa, promised to help him. This story is very warm and moving.
  “Happiness” is another main theme of Mood Fairy Tale. The typical work is Happy Tire. A huge tire running from the mountain was being taken as a toy by the animals, they use is as rubber boat, floating in the water. They take it as a flywheel, bounced into the sky. When it running down the valley, it’s like the roller coaster. Animals had a lot of fun with it, exciting and happy. The big tire became the happy source for them. Repairman found there was a tire missing, he didn’t take it back put it on the car, he removed all the tires and said to let them all become the happy tires. This story tells people, to look for happy and to release happy is the most important thing in the life.
  Xiaoming Wang’s Mood Fairy Tale valued children’s angle, children’s basis. The essence of the story is not only showing grow up’s wise when they’re living the life, understand life. Combined together, forming a light and rich children’s boutique with unique artistic charm.
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