Zheng Yuanjie

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Zheng Yuanjie
Native name
郑渊洁
Born (1955-06-15) 15 June 1955 (age 68)
Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China
OccupationWriter
LanguageChinese
NationalityChinese
Period1979–present
SpouseGuo Weiwei (郭维维)
ChildrenZheng Yaqi (郑亚旗)
Zheng Yafei (郑亚飞)
Zheng Yuanjie
Traditional Chinese鄭淵潔
Simplified Chinese郑渊洁

Zheng Yuanjie (Chinese: 郑渊洁; born 15 June 1955) is a Chinese children's books author, and founder and sole writer of a children's literature magazine known as the King of Fairy Tales (童话大王).[1][2] The first issue was published in 1984. His characters (including PiPilu, LuXixi, Shuke, Beita and Luoke) are registered trademarks.

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Zheng Yuanjie is critical of conventional Chinese methods of education, claiming that "college education tends to make simple things complicated and hard to understand".[3]

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  1. ^ Wu Shuangjiang (吴双江) (2022). 郑渊洁“封笔”,为了那672个孩子 [Zheng Yuanjie "sealed the pen" for those 672 children]. Culture and History Vision (in Chinese). 624. Yuhua District, Changsha, Hunan: Integrated Media Center of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference: 52–53. ISSN 1672-8653.
  2. ^ Xu Xiaodi (许晓迪) (2022). “郑渊洁宇宙”五代孩子的梦 [Dreams of Five Generations of Children in the "Zheng Yuanjie Universe"]. Global People (in Chinese). 460. Chaoyang District, Beijing: People's Daily: 75–79. ISSN 1673-6176.
  3. ^ "Zheng Yuanjie's 19 years in fairy tales". China Daily. 10 May 2004. Retrieved 7 July 2005.