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.
Introduction of works
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 feels grown up because of her father's departure.
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Old Things in the South of the City is the representative work of Lin, a female writer in Taiwan Province Province. This work tells the story of Eiko's childhood through her childish eyes, reflecting the author's nostalgia for childhood and the south of Beijing.
"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.