Empty Nest, a novel about left-behind teenagers in rural areas, has aroused strong repercussions.

　　　　Xinhua survey: left-behind teenagers call for social care

　　　　-"Empty Nest", a novel about left-behind teenagers in rural areas, has aroused strong repercussions.

　　　　Xinhuanet Chongqing, March 8 (Reporter Zhang Qin) The novel "Empty Nest" reflecting the theme of left-behind teenagers in rural areas, the first print of 10,000 copies was booked out at the Beijing Book Fair; In the signing activities held in Yunyang County, Chongqing Three Gorges Reservoir Area, more than 800 copies were signed in half a day. Prior to this, this novel, which was first published on the Internet, had a monthly hit rate of 1.42 million.

　　　　Novels about left-behind teenagers in rural areas have become popular on the Internet.

　　　　"I’m a bird that hasn’t grown up yet, guarding an empty nest alone. Mom, don’t you want me? Why don’t you fly back to our nest? Mom, come back to our warm nest quickly, and I don’t want you to suffer from the wind and rain any more … "The Empty Nest, with 250,000 words, takes a group of left-behind teenagers in the Three Gorges reservoir area as the protagonist, taking the changes of their respective families and destinies as the scene, comprehensively reflects the real living conditions of the left-behind teenagers in rural areas, and reveals the problems of loneliness, rebellion, depression, autism and even violence caused by the left-behind teenagers in the absence of family ties.

　　　　Liu Jun, the author of Empty Nest, is a Chinese teacher in Jiangkou Middle School, Yunyang County, Chongqing Three Gorges Reservoir Area. At the age of 40, he has been teaching in rural primary and secondary schools for 21 years. He said that this novel has been conceived for nearly ten years, and since April 2007, it has been uploaded to the Internet while writing. "I just want to express my feelings for so many years. I didn’t expect to be concerned and valued by so many people."

　　　　In May, 2007, Empty Nest was uploaded only for one month, and the hit rate in Sohu reached 1.42 million, and it was reprinted in dozens of mainstream reading websites in China, such as Tencent.com, Ninth Chinese.com, Novel Reading.com and Qihoo.com.. Many netizens took the initiative to contact Liu Jun. A college student in Guangzhou and a former left-behind teenager said that his nose was sore and he wanted to cry after reading it. A teacher in Shiyan, Hubei Province gave Liu Jun the research materials about left-behind children that he had investigated for many years for free for his creation …

　　　　Lan Xilin, chairman of Chongqing Literary Critics Association and a first-class writer, commented that Empty Nest is a rare good novel, which is shocking and has realistic penetrating power and shocking power. This is the real power.

　　　　Author: "I am talking about people and things around me."

　　　　Author Liu Jun’s pen name is ox cart, which he himself explains as "an old ox pulls a broken cart, half-opens it coldly, and a broken pen paints the world". "I am writing this novel in the way of Wyndell Dichinson, because the people and things in it happened to my relatives and students. I am sad." Liu Jun, who was born in the countryside, said emotionally.

　　　　The prototype of Hao Kai, the No.1 hero in Empty Nest and a left-behind teenager, is a former student in Liu Jun. His parents who worked in Guangzhou were both killed in an explosion caused by a gas tank. Liu Jun said that he could not forget the helpless eyes of the child. The prototype of Hao Kai’s cousin Xiaofei is actually Liu Jun’s nephew, while the prototype of Xiaofei’s mother and Hao Kai’s "big aunt" is Liu Jun’s sister. Because his parents went out to work and were away from home all the year round, Liu Jun’s nephew stayed with the "gangsters" in the society all day, and later he was infected with drugs and almost died. Now he still lives on headache powder. Liu Jun’s sister collapsed several times for this reason, only with the encouragement of Liu Jun’s mother, the prototype of Grandma Hao Kai in the book.

　　　　Liu Jun told reporters that among his students, there are some left-behind children who have to drop out of school every year. "These are the real people around me, and they are the real things that happened to them. The fate of a small family is also the fate of a big society. I don’t want to write this novel. I just hope to attract everyone’s attention and attention. I hope that other left-behind children and their families will not repeat the same tragedy. "

　　　　Children left behind in rural areas need the care of the whole society.

　　　　The National Research Report on the Situation of Left-behind Children in Rural Areas recently released by the All-China Women’s Federation shows that there are about 58 million left-behind children in rural areas in China, including more than 40 million left-behind children under the age of 14. The head of the All-China Women’s Federation pointed out that with the acceleration of urbanization and industrialization in China and the rising number of young and middle-aged people going out in rural areas, the number of left-behind children in rural areas continues to increase, and the deep contradictions affecting the survival and development of left-behind children in rural areas have not been resolved.

　　　　Liu Jun said, "Empty Nest" has attracted a lot of people’s attention to left-behind children, but it is not enough. He said from the bottom of his heart that parents of left-behind children who work in cities should not be too busy making money to neglect their children, but should contact and communicate with their children as much as possible and encourage them to grow up healthily. Teachers should strengthen the research on the psychology of left-behind children, understand their voices and needs as much as possible according to their situation, and help them overcome difficulties. Relevant government departments should investigate the actual situation of left-behind children, introduce some systems and measures to care for them, and solve the specific obstacles faced by left-behind children in their life and study from the widest level.

　　　　Feng Jianhua, editor-in-chief of the Children’s Publishing Center of Chongqing Publishing Group, said that the large number of children left behind in rural areas and the complicated situation have become a major social problem. The whole society should take active actions to care for the left-behind children, so that the whole society can develop harmoniously.

Editor: Jufu