"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.

Evaluation of works

Painter Pass: The reason why the old things in the south of the city can impress many readers lies in its realistic performance, sincerity and temperature.

Director Wu: The deep lovesickness and faint sadness in the novel Old Things in the South of the City deeply touched people's hearts. The whole novel is full of simple and warm thoughts and feelings. When the film was released, this emotion also touched countless audiences. ?

Film actor: Lin's works are actually more suitable for making movies. Because the storyline of her works is very simple and there is no modification, the screenwriter pays great attention to strengthening the rhythm and plot when modifying the script.

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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.