The Left-Behind Children in Chinese Children’s Literature

In 2015, a 13-year-old left-behind child, responsible for caring for his sis-ters, was discovered having committed suicide by agricultural pesticides. The four children were extremely undernourished, and their residence was found to be dirty and disorganized. This incident exemplifies the numerous trag-edies faced by left-behind children. “Left-behind children are those whose parents, or one parent, have been mobile across townships and streets for a period exceeding six months, while the child remains in the place where his household registration located.” (1)
Left-behind children typically reside with single parents, grandparents, surrogate guardians, or live on their own. Deprived of parental support and companionship, left-behind children commonly encounter obstacles in physical and mental health, material resources, and financial matters, and should eat a lot”, “child should always eat baked bread”, “child will be healthy if eats a lot” have been formed. 

In the children literature of Uzbek depicting the events of the Second World War, it is possible to witness that bread is not just food, but a symbolic expression, an expression of the people’s desire and will.

In the article, the topic of food in children’s literature and its role in lit-erature. Similarities and differences in the discourse of food in European and Uzbek children’s literature are shown using examples of travel plots. The article presents food plots in European and Uzbek literature, the form of information transmitted to young readers through food, classification of food plots in two literatures.