"Little Orange Lantern" is a prose written by Bing Xin, and it is one of his later masterpieces. The article vividly depicts the image of a kind and strong peasant girl who longs for light in the difficult life adversity. The author starts from a small place and selects some ordinary things, such as a little girl making a phone call, looking after her mother, talking to me, and making a small orange lamp to send me, from the outside to the inside, from the shallow to the deep, and advancing layer by layer.
The image of a poor rural girl who is precocious, strong, brave, optimistic, kind and full of inner beauty is vividly portrayed. The lyrical words written by the author after narration are the crowning touch of the whole article, which deepens the theme and reveals the symbolic significance of the small orange lamp-a symbol of hope and fire hidden in the hearts of the people, a symbol of light.
2. From Baicaoyuan to San Tan Yin Yue
From Herb Garden to San Tan Yin Yue is an essay written by 1926 recalling Lu Xun's interesting childhood life, which is included in Flowers in the Morning and Evening Picking Up. The full text describes two scenic spots with different colors and artistic conception: Baicao Garden and San Tan Yin Yue.
The author wrote "Hundred Herbs Garden", focusing on "music", describing an interesting children's paradise with simple and vivid words, interspersed with the legend of "beautiful snake" and the story of catching birds in the snow in winter, which is a combination of dynamic and static, meticulous and appropriate, and interesting.
3. My teacher
Excerpted from Wei Wei's prose collection, the author recalls a few things that happened around the gentle and loving teacher Cai in his childhood with a child's eyes and psychology, expresses his deep love, reverence and gratitude to the teacher, and highlights the pure and beautiful heart of teacher Cai.
4. Little match girl
The Little Match Girl is a fairy tale written by Danish fairy tale writer Andersen and published in 1846. This paper mainly tells the story of a little match girl who froze to death in the street on New Year's Eve when the rich family was beaming and drinking.
The little girl died with a smile on her lips, which was in sharp contrast with her real life of hunger and cold through the beautiful fantasy of lighting matches. Through this fairy tale, Andersen expressed his deep sympathy for the poor and his dissatisfaction with the society at that time, and mercilessly exposed the darkness and evil of capitalist society.
Step 5 "Back off"
It is a retrospective essay written by modern writer Zhu Ziqing (1898- 1948) in 1925. This article tells the story that the author left Nanjing for Peking University. His father sent him to pukou railway station to take care of him and buy him oranges.
What impressed me the most was the back of my father climbing up and down the platform when he bought him oranges. With simple words, the author expresses his father's love for his children deeply, delicately and sincerely, and shows his care and love from ordinary events.