Looking at foreign language textbooks at home and abroad, it is hard to imagine that there will be a textbook with fictional characters as popular as Li Lei and Han Meimei, which is the collective memory of a generation.
In recent years, songs, dramas, cartoons, micro-movies and adapted stories around Li Lei, Han Meimei and related figures have been widely spread on the Internet.
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First, the background of "half-blood" Li Lei in Han Meimei:
Co-editing of Chinese and foreign English textbooks is very common now. But in the late 1980s, English textbooks co-edited by Chinese and foreign countries were still new. Liu Daoyi, then deputy editor-in-chief of People's Education Society, proposed that Chinese and foreign countries should cooperate in compiling English textbooks for middle schools, which caused many voices of doubt: Why do foreigners compile English textbooks in China? At that time, many people didn't know whether Chinese and foreign textbooks could find a new way.
Because there was no foreign exchange reserve to pay for the cooperation funds at that time, the start of JEFC project was not smooth. After arduous negotiations, it was finally funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UNESCO was the executing agency. Longman Publishing Co., Ltd. was selected to cooperate with People's Education Publishing House through international bidding.
"Chinese-foreign co-editing mode" has significantly improved the overall quality of JEFC, and the language of the textbook is authentic, true and vivid; Due to the introduction of foreign advanced language teaching concepts, this set of teaching materials has also greatly changed the previous thinking of compiling English teaching materials.
In the past, most English textbooks were written with grammar as the key link, while JEFC arranged the teaching content in the way of "combining structure with function". It first introduced "Communicative Approach" into China's middle school English textbooks, emphasizing that English learning is for communication. Since then, the situation of deaf-mute English has changed for a long time, which is a great progress in the history of compiling English textbooks for primary and secondary schools in China.
The story in the textbook was invented by Mr. Grant, the British editor-in-chief. Both China and Britain have studied the family model. Finally, three foreign families are designed, namely the Green family, the King family and the Reed family. They come from different countries.
They work, live and study in China. Their children (Jim, Kate, Lily, Lucy, Ann, Tom and Tom) go to school with China children (Li Lei, Han Meimei, Lin Tao and Wei Hua). There are China adult characters such as Miss Gao, Uncle Wang, Mr. Hu, and a lively and lovely parrot, Polly, who can speak English and fly everywhere.
The dialogue, listening and text content of the textbook are all designed around these characters. The names Li Lei and Han Meimei were selected by the Chinese writing team, and finally decided by the British editor-in-chief Grant.
These two names are chosen because they are easy to pronounce. It is called Meimei because he thinks that China people like to give girls a name, which is fashionable, pleasant to listen to and easy to remember at that time.
Second, the two characters in the textbook.
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Flat-headed domestic straight man. Can play, especially love to eat. While making friends with people who are eager to learn like Lin Tao, I also make friends with scum like Jim.
Han Meimei
China girl with short hair is gentle, gentle, intelligent and kind, which combines the virtues of women in China. In the book, she is a little sister who helps her classmates solve problems.
During the period of 10, the number of middle school students who used this edition of English textbooks reached 1 100 million, more than the total population of Germany. /kloc-the common memory of 0/100 million people eventually formed a legendary campus love full of various possibilities, killing all campus CPS.
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Third, two characters develop into a phenomenon and a "stalk"
After 1 in 2005, based on Tianya Bagua and Douban, the related contents of collective memories of Li Lei and Han Meimei appeared on the Internet, which was the first upsurge of Li Lei and Han Meimei.
2. In 2008, Southern Weekend raised the phenomenon of collective memory of Li Lei and Han Meimei to the sociological level, holding that this phenomenon belongs to collective memory, which heated up the topic. As a result, the phenomenon of Li Lei and Han Meimei moved from the Internet to the media.
3. In 2009, a comic book with the same name created by Yoshitaro Chuji and published by Wanjuan Publishing Company appeared, and a drama with the same name appeared in Beijing. Li Lei and Han Meimei began to become a cultural phenomenon.
4. At the same time, the singer Xu Yuteng sang a song "Li Lei and Han Meimei", with a slightly sad melody and lyrics, which instantly evoked countless memories of the post-80s generation and even poked everyone's tears.
On May 20th, 2006, the film Li Lei and Han Meimei started shooting.