Among all the cartoons that I have watched, the most appealing ones are those created by Miyazaki Hayao (Gong Qijun in Chinese). In his works, kindhearted children, beautiful scenery and magical life are always the shinning points that can catch people’s eyes.

Yesterday, I was feeling down in the dumps because of the Teacher Certificate exam. In the noon, I watched a cartoon named Totoro (Long Mao in Chinese) by Miyazaki Hayao. The picturesque scenery the vivid characters and the pacific music in the movie really threw me into a beautiful world which is full of love and joy without sorrow and tears.

In the beginning a family moved to countryside. The mother is ill in the hospital, so the elder daughter becomes the hostess of the family. She cooks for her father and her younger sister and all of them live a happy life. One day, the little girl slides on the body of sleeping totoro when she is playing near the entrance to the cave. She is so happy and excited when she realizes it is a totoro who is so nice and kind. When she goes back home, she tells her sister that she had seen a totoro.

The other day, the totoro gives her a beautiful wrapped gift- a pack of acorn. The girls sow them in the front of their house expecting to see them sprout and grow to luxuriant forests. At night the totoro appears together with two little ones and they dance and jump happily around the land where the acorn sows. The girls run out of room and together with the totoro to pray for acorn. The next morning, the acorn comes into burgeon. The girls laugh happily from the bottom of their heart. Later on it is raining. The girls are waiting for their father at the bus stop when totoro appears, then they give him an umbrella. Then, the totoro plays with it happily.

Then one day, a call from the hospital says that their mother is heavily sick and they worry about their mother miss her very much. The totoro asks his cute cat-bus to take them to the hospital. The little girl put the corn outside the window sill which she has hold for a long time and just wants to give it to her mother.

This is a beautiful and harmonious picture in which human beings and the animal live together in peace and help each other, in which the family and neighbors live in harmony, in which they live with the nature peacefully.

The cartoons of Miyazaki Hayao are unique for the exquisite technology, moving story and the warm atmosphere, which can cure for the sadness inside people’s heart. They really deserve watching.