Influence of Adults'Childishness on Children's Literature:On Deep Factors of Digging and Digging Going Rival
In the middle of 2023,a video of a kindergarten teacher teaching the children's song Digging and Digging went viral on the Internet,and it was not children but adults who were involved in the trend,which might be called the group of"kidults".It was temporarily connected by the Internet.The bond that connected these people was mainly fun,entertainment,and physical pleasure.This group seemed invisible but powerful,unruly and easy to be guided.In the past,people could be divided into three cultural levels:illiter-ate people,"children"(people who were educated but not highly educated),and adults.With the populari-zation of education,the illiteracy rate has greatly reduced.Illiterate people have become"kidults",which is a manifestation of social progress.After the"kidults"have become a large group,they reflect their aesthetic taste on the Internet,form a trend,even control the development direction of the trend,sometimes make cul-ture develop in a vulgar direction,and lead to the fall of social cultural highland,which profoundly affects the development trend of children's literature."Growing up"is to change from a person with no or less education to a literate person.Children cannot"grow up"if the cultural environment is not healthy.Therefore,for the growth of children and the development of children's literature,Digging and Digging going viral on the Internet is not worthy of praise,but on the contrary,we need to be vigilant.