花木兰
《国粹戏剧图画书：花木兰》
海飞 缪惟/编
张卓明 段颖婷/绘
Chinese Opera Picture Book: Hua Mulan
Haifei Miuwei/Edited
Zhang Zhuoming and Duan Yingting/Illustrated
亲爱的小读者：
这是一套怎样的书呢？这是一团浓彩耀目的火花，它将点燃你求知的渴望，照亮并开阔你的视野。这簇绚丽的火花，是中国古老美丽的文化，是关于东方精湛的艺术。循此渊源，从京剧《三岔口》到明人小说《杨家将演义》，从元曲《窦娥冤》到元代雄浑的丹青艺术，在历史的长河中，我们的祖先创造了无数的文化与艺术的杰作。这些杰作代表了中华民族的文明，它们绵延传承，世世代代，生生不息，今天我们把它们称之为“国粹”，而中国传统戏剧又是这些“国粹”之中的代表。
在繁如星辰的中国传统戏剧作品中，我们专门精选了其中最有代表性、最具感染力、最为人熟知的剧目，用优美、生动的图画书形式呈现给你们。
梅兰芳先生说过，戏剧是一项审美的艺术。审美能力的培养是要经过长期的熏习和浸染的，绝非一朝一夕可以速得。优秀的审美能力是高尚情操的重要组成部分，而培养审美能力，塑造高尚情操，其中一条坦途，就是在小的时候多多学习中国传统文化，多多接触国粹艺术。
因为了解了，所以热爱它；因为热爱了，所以把它留在了心里，故此可以享用一生、得益一生。
编者
Dear Little Reader: What kind of book is this? It is a rich and dazzling spark that will ignite your thirst for knowledge, illuminate and broaden your horizons. This cluster of brilliant sparks is the ancient and beautiful culture of China, and is about the exquisite art of the East. Following this origin, our ancestors have created countless cultural and artistic masterpieces in the long course of history, from the Peking Opera "Sancha" to the Ming Dynasty novel "The Romance of the Yang Family", from the Yuan song "Dou E Yuan" to the vigorous art of the Yuan Dynasty. These masterpieces represent the civilization of the Chinese nation, which has been passed down from generation to generation. Today, we call them the "quintessence of China", and Chinese traditional drama is the representative of these "quintessence of China".
Among the numerous traditional Chinese drama works, we specially select the most representative, the most influential and the most well-known plays, and present them to you in the form of beautiful and vivid picture books. Mr. Mei Lanfang once said that drama is an aesthetic art. The cultivation of aesthetic ability is to go through a long period of fumigation and dyeing, and can not be quickly acquired overnight. Excellent aesthetic ability is an important part of noble sentiment, and one of the smooth ways to cultivate aesthetic ability and shape noble sentiment is to learn more traditional Chinese culture and contact more quintessence of Chinese art at a young age.
Because I know, I love it; Because I love it, I keep it in my heart, so I can enjoy life and benefit from life.
Editor
花木兰是个勤劳孝顺、聪慧豪气的姑娘，她从小织得一手好布，还跟随父亲学习兵法，练就一身了不起的功夫。
Mulan is a hard-working filial piety, intelligent heroic girl, she woven a good hand cloth, but also follow her father to learn the art of war, practice a great kung fu.
那时的边关并不太平，常常受到外敌侵扰。一日，番邦首领突力子率领重兵再次越过边境，袭扰中原，他们一路上烧杀抢掠，无恶不作。国家面临劫难、百姓惨遭涂炭，危急关头，朝廷向全国发布了征兵军帖。
At that time, the border was not peaceful and was often disturbed by foreign enemies. One day, the leader of the country, Tulizi, led a heavy army to cross the border again and harass the Central Plains, burning, killing and looting along the way. The country was facing disaster, the people were brutally destroyed, and at a critical juncture, the court issued a draft to the whole country.