Excellent review of "Smart Ikkyu"

Although The Smart Ikkyu Monk is a children's cartoon, the story always contains a hint of heaviness. Ikkyu's life experience and the fate of not being able to see his mother, especially the sad song at the end, made me experience it when I was young. The sunny doll with four seasons of wind and rain feels the first sorrow of being born.

What cartoon will introduce Buddhism, indifferent feelings and greedy tricks, introduce poverty and the conquests that lead to poverty, introduce bribery, introduce generals, businessmen, monks and farmers, introduce politics and hierarchy, and introduce folk customs Habits, introduce mathematics, optics, literature, and even introduce the Mouse Society, which is "MLM"?

So educational, but not preachy at all, and very interesting?! The answer is this animation: smart Brother Yixiu.

Recently I have seen many post-00s. Although their parents spend money and money, they pile all kinds of reading machines and iPad literacy games with Pleasant Goat on them in front of the post-00s. The post-00s generation I have met all claim to be able to recite poems and sing alphabet songs, as if these are the starting line standards for the new generation of children.

But if you want to take a look at the tablets in their little hands, you will immediately hear their childish screams: Don’t move! Don’t move! This is mine! So vicious, but also so smart. When the children grow up, there will be a round of fighting for resources between them. Makes me shudder.

I sincerely recommend their parents to let their children memorize ancient poems while also watching this old cartoon, especially the Mandarin-dubbed version, which is so good. Wouldn't it be good to master some principles of life and interaction with others at a young age, establish a basic moral concept of universal love, and add a little wit?

Although Ikkyu has been a young man, Although he is a prince, he is willing to live in poverty in the monastery. He carries water, washes vegetables, cooks, and mends clothes by himself. These alone show the complicated side of fate and society in real life. It can also be regarded as a virtual life for children. Frustration education.

Ikkyu accepts his fate firmly and understands the true meaning of life in his daily life. Even if he sweeps the floor and washes the radishes, he must do it conscientiously. Ikkyu and the monks in the temple live a poor life but can be at ease, while the owner of the chess and stick shop is worried about gains and losses. He looks funny and bedridden because of the loss of money. Money smells like money, but the moneyless people can only eat grass, money and things every day. The meaning of the game, the game between money, material and soul and morality, is a thought that children can understand for a lifetime.

In addition, there is a compassionate world view and moral outlook everywhere in cartoons:

There is an episode about a farmer whose watermelon was smashed, and the farmer simply doubted the poverty in the village. When Ikkyu found out about the children, he immediately interceded for them, thinking that it was unfair to arrest poor children without evidence. He told Shin'emon that the parents of these children died because of the war, and they had no one to take care of them. As it is today, don't you samurai and generals have no responsibilities?

Ikkyu brought up the connection between poor children, war, generals, and farmers, pointing out that the lack of social responsibility is the root cause of social crime, and Everyone must look at the thinking of others objectively. Isn't it more beneficial for children to experience such events from an early age, and then imitate and observe the people and things around them, and experience life like this from an early age, than to repeatedly say "suspiciousness is frost on the ground"?

On the other hand, Ikkyu's clever "wit" is the biggest feature of this animation, which contains many creative ways of thinking, such as using coincidences of language, loopholes in thinking, and the nature of people and things to exercise wit: For example, a mouse pretending to be sick will become the leader, A fake snake can see through his pretense of illness, because people will jump when they see a snake. Another example is that the general wants to tie up the tiger in the painting. Ikkyu is fully armed and then asks the tiger to come out. The tiger in the painting will not come out, let alone tied up. This implies that the general is deliberately making things difficult. Ikkyu then reverses the situation and asks the tiger to come out. This is embarrassing for the general. The awareness of observing and utilizing various phenomena in the world, even the simple habit of using one's brain when encountering problems, has obvious benefits for children in developing creative thinking.

Every time I watch Ikkyu, I think how great it would be for every child to grow up watching it, and how natural and beautiful it is to learn from watching animation. Parents who have experienced our society should know very well that exam-oriented education is a cramming style of learning that falls apart after leaving school. It is not enough to simply use memory to supplement children's knowledge. At the same time, attention should also be paid to training the child's spirit and comprehensive sensory abilities.

Ikkyu used his wisdom to get money and rice balls to distribute to the poor, but he was distressed that although the problem was solved temporarily, the poor will still be hungry tomorrow. He has not changed anything. The world is not that easy. Change!! The dream of allowing more poor people to have enough to eat every day is not a problem that can be solved by one person in one generation. It is a problem that requires the efforts and wisdom of many people and many generations. These people may It is the child who watches Ikkyu animation.