Dai Tielang

Forest, Little Birds and Me

The children cage the birds without realizing they hold the balance in the forest. Without birds pests come to the children's homes.

The Nine-Colored Deer

In ancient times, a Persian merchant gets lost in a windstorm. Suddenly a spiritual deer of nine colors appears to guide the man. Later on, the deer rescues a man drowning in a river. In exchange, the man promises not to reveal the deer's whereabouts. The man reaches an imperial palace. The king insists on hunting down the spiritual deer down to make clothes out of the deer skin. The man gives in to his greed and leads an army of warriors to the spot. He falls into the river again, hoping the deer will show up to rescue him. This time, all the warriors' arrows turn into dust and the man is drowned

Is It an Elephant or Not?

Xiao Ming gazes around in the zoo when the teacher explains characteristics of animals to the class. The teacher assigns homework of drawing an elephant, but Xiao Ming draws an elephant with a monkey face.

Heroic Little Sisters of the Grassland

This film was made by Shanghai Animation Film Studio and is based on contemporary events in February, 1964. It’s a retelling of how Mongolian sisters Long Mei and Yurong, ages 11 and 8 respectively, successfully walked nearly 70 kilometers after having been surprised by a blizzard while grazing their father’s sheep. Both girls survived with severe frostbite.

The Little Guests Invited by the Sun

Another happy Children's Day is coming. The kindly father-in-law Sun sits in the palace of heaven and laments that the children get up earlier than him. Although tens of thousands of years have passed, Grandpa Sun decided to invite children from the earth to his palace for the holiday. Of course, an invitation must be issued before that, so Eunuch Sun entrusts the lovely and mischievous messenger of light to the earth to convey the good news.

Crossing the Monkey Mountain

In the hot summer, a group of little monkeys jumped up and down tirelessly on several trees on the mountain, having a great time. Wearing a straw hat on his head and shoulders, and with two wine gourds hanging on his chest, the old man struggled up from the bottom of the mountain. When he saw a large shade of trees, he stopped to rest and fell asleep after a while. The little monkeys sized up the old man, and became interested in the straw hat and wine gourd he threw on the ground.