In the late 1920s, a six-year-old girl named Lin lived in a small alley in the south of Beijing. Xiuzhen, a "crazy" woman who often stands in the alley looking for her daughter, is Eiko's friend. Xiuzhen once fell in love with a college student, Si Kang. Later, Si Kang went back to his hometown and never came back.

Xiuzhen's daughter, Xiao Guizi, was sent to the foot of the city wall by her family and disappeared. Eiko was very sympathetic to her, so she promised to help Xiuzhen find Xiaoguizi. Eiko inadvertently found that the girl's life is very similar to that of the little devil, found the scar on the back of her neck, and quickly took her to Xiuzhen. After Xiuzhen recognized her daughter who had been separated for six years, she immediately took her to her father.

But in the end, both mother and daughter died under the train while catching it. Eiko had a high fever and was in a coma for ten days, almost losing her life. Later, Eiko's family moved to Lan Xin Hutong. Eiko met a young man with thick lips in a nearby desert garden. In order to pay for his brother's education, he had to steal. Eiko thinks she is kind, but she can't tell whether she is a good person or a bad person.

Soon, Eiko found a small bronze Buddha on the grass, which was found by plainclothes police. They took the young man away with patrol police. This made Eiko sad because he lost a friend. Later, Aunt Lan came to Eiko's house. Eiko found that his father's attitude towards Aunt Lan was wrong. Eiko thought of a way to introduce Aunt Lan to Uncle Dexian. Later, they fell in love, and finally they left together in a carriage.

When Eiko was nine years old, her nanny Ma Song's husband came to the Lins' home. Eiko was very sad when she learned that Ma Song's son drowned two years ago and her daughter was given to a childless three-wheeled couple by her husband. She couldn't understand why Ma Song left her children to wait on others.

Later, Ma Song was picked up by her husband with a little donkey. Finally, Eiko's father died of lung disease. Eiko realized her responsibility because of her father's departure and felt that she had grown up.

2, the author

Old Things in the South of the City is the representative work of Lin, a female writer in Taiwan Province Province.

Extended information 1, the theme of old things in the south of the city

"Old Things in the South of the City" describes the life of an ordinary family in a quadrangle in the south of Beijing in the late 1920s. Through the childish eyes of the little girl Eiko, we can see all kinds of people and things in Beijing at that time. The characters in the article all left Eiko at last, expressing their feelings of farewell to childhood.

Showed the joys and sorrows of the adult world to the world. There is an indescribable innocence, but it tells the complicated feelings in the world. Through the seemingly narrow description, it reflects the whole historical face of Beijing at that time and has strong social significance. Lead people to relive the life shrouded in gloom.

Xiaoying appeared in the article as the protagonist. When she found that there was a great contrast between the good wishes of adults and reality, her innocent and kind young mind became more and more fragile. The endless tragic cycle in the article is even more striking and thought-provoking, which is the key to the richness of the novel. ?

From the current point of view, most of the events described in Old Things in the South of the City are tragedies caused by the times, each with its own pain. The feudal ethics drove Xiuzhen crazy, and thieves, Aunt Lan, also had their own history of blood and tears. But from the whole text, its main purpose is not to blame the old system, but to reflect the human brilliance of these unfortunate people at the bottom with the childlike innocence of a pure girl.

The article tries to downplay the standard of good and evil, treat the ugliness of reality with a happy childlike innocence, and maintain a free and happy sky in the heavy reality. It can be said that Xiaoying opened a perspective that was ignored by the adult world. This perspective is to treat people with a simple, simple and kind heart. These perspectives were originally owned by us, but they were slowly forgotten and lost under the hijacking of secular stereotypes.

Xiaoying in the novel seems to be the most familiar stranger in our reality. This strangeness and familiarity dilute the hatred for thieves, evoke the age of innocence, and make people sigh a lot. The whole work always runs through the interpretation of the connotation of growth, but the persistence in the beautiful life of childhood can not match the changes in reality.

2. Introduction to the author

Lin (19 18-200 1), formerly known as Lin, was born in Osaka, Japan, from Toufen Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan, and her ancestral home was Jiaoling, Guangdong Province.

Lin returned to Taiwan Province Province with his parents on 192 1. 1923 moved to Beijing with his parents and settled in the south of the city. 1948 returned to Taiwan Province Province to start literary creation. He used to be a reporter and editor of World Journal and presided over the supplement of United Daily News 10. He wrote many novels and short stories in his life.

1994 Lin was awarded the "Honorary Award for Senior Chinese Writers" by the World Chinese Writers Association and the Asian Chinese Writers Literature and Art Foundation, and 1998 was awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award" by the World Chinese Writers Congress. His autobiographical novel Old Stories in the South of the City 1999 won the second May 4th Prize "Literary Contribution Award" and the German version won the Swiss "Blue Cobra Award".

3. Creative background

"Old Things in the South of the City" was written by Lin in the background of his life from the age of 7 to 13. During the Japanese imperialist occupation of Taiwan Province, the Lins refused to live under the iron heel of the Japanese invaders and moved to Beijing where Xiaoying grew up. Seeing the camel team coming in winter and hearing the slow and sweet bell, childhood returned to the author's mind.

Summer passed, autumn passed, winter came again, camel team came again, but childhood never came back. Because the author misses the scenery and people when he lived in the south of Beijing as a child, he wrote it down, so that the actual childhood passed and the childhood of the soul will last forever. This is the original intention of Lin in writing this novel.

4, the influence of later generations

The book Old Events in the South of the City is not only a portrayal of the author's childhood life, but also the life of ordinary people in Beijing in those years, and it is also her most influential work. He was selected as "Top 100 China Novels in the 20th Century" by Asia Weekly.

1999 was included in the list of "100 excellent books of China literature in the last century" jointly sponsored by People's Literature Publishing House and Beijing Book Building. In 2000, it was included in the "Required Reading Series for Middle School Students in the New Curriculum Standard" planned and published by People's Literature Publishing House.

Many of these works have also been selected into middle school textbooks. Old Stories in the South of the City is one of the century-old classic series of children's literature in China. This series is not only a comprehensive publishing project of original children's literature in China, but also a cultural accumulation and inheritance project with important practical significance and historical value, and it is also a promotion project to reshape modern children's literature in China.

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