In this book, the bluebird is a symbol of happiness. Through their own experiences along the way, they symbolically reproduce all the sufferings that human beings have experienced so far in search of happiness. The work puts forward an eternal question for mankind: what is happiness, but the conclusion drawn by the work is unexpected: in fact, happiness is not so hard to find, it is all around us.
The main contents of The Jade Bird:
Teal, the woodcutter's son, and Mearti, his daughter, dreamed of fairies on Christmas Eve. She looks like Mrs. Bellango, the neighbor. She wants her two children to go out and look for a robin for her sick granddaughter. Brother and sister used the magic diamond given by the fairy to summon the souls of bread, sugar, fire, water, cats and dogs.
Under the guidance of light, they went to the land of memory, the night palace, the forest, the cemetery, the paradise of happiness, the future kingdom and other places, but the bluebird was found and lost. Finally, they caught the bluebird in the future kingdom, said goodbye to their friends and went home.