Would you be surprised if such content appeared in your child’s Chinese textbooks?
This is written by a top writer of children’s literature in my country. His name is very familiar to parents with elementary school students, because most teachers will ask your child to go to the bookstore to buy his language tutoring book to enrich the child’s Knowledge and language level, but who would have thought that the famous professor and writer of Peking University would go so far as to create a book with such content for our next generation.
And his problems are far more than that…
Who is he?
Cao Wenxuan, born in January 1954 in Zhouhuo Village, Zhongxing Street, Xuefu Town, Yandu District, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, Chinese writer, professor of Peking University, member of the National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association, vice chairman of the Beijing Writers Association, member of the Children’s Literature Committee, Chinese writer Association Luxun School of Literature visiting professor.
His highest honor is the “International Hans Christian Andersen” award, known as the Children’s Nobel Prize. Achieved zero breakthrough for Chinese in this award! After Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012, our Chinese literary power has once again shown vigor and boundless hope in front of the world!
In addition, he has won numerous awards. On March 31, 2017, he won the 2016-2017 Influence World Chinese Award. In December 2017, he won the first Wu Chengen Novel Award for his special style novel “Dragonfly Eye”. In 2019, Cao Wenxuan’s novel “The Grass House” was selected into the “70 Novels Collection in the 70 Years of New China”.
At the same time, he is also the editor-in-chief of the Ministry of Education’s new language textbooks.
When Cao Wenxuan was the editor-in-chief of the national primary and secondary schools, he included his articles in Chinese textbooks, and he was both a referee and an athlete.
At the same time, let Western culture penetrate into primary school students, and let various interests penetrate into cultural genes.
Cao Wenxuan also gained fame and fortune after his works were selected into Chinese textbooks, and compiled his books into the recommended reading list of the Ministry of Education, so that his annual royalty income directly rose to the ranks of top writers with tens of millions of yuan.
At present, relevant departments have begun to check the works with illegal content.
Ministry of Education announcement:
Recently, the illustrations of the PPE version of primary school mathematics textbooks have received widespread attention from the society, and the Ministry of Education has attached great importance to it. After research, it was decided that:
1. Instruct the People’s Education Press to rectify immediately, reorganize professional forces to draw textbook illustrations, and ensure that the new textbooks will be used in the fall semester of 2022. The Ministry of Education will organize a team of experts to conduct strict review and check.
2. The Ministry of Education immediately deployed to conduct a comprehensive investigation of textbooks for primary and secondary schools across the country, focusing on the content and illustrations of textbooks, and immediately rectified any problems found to ensure that the textbooks adhere to the correct political direction and value orientation, promote the excellent Chinese culture, and conform to the public’s aesthetic habits.
The problem of illustrations and tutorial books is just the tip of the iceberg. Now that many classic articles have been removed from the textbooks, what else is left for children?
Education is a century-old plan and the foundation of a country, and it cannot be neglected at any time.
The question is, how many question textbooks are still missing? How many people are still harming our next generation in the name of children’s reading?