"Old Things in the South of the City" tells a story about Yingzi's childhood through Yingzi's childhood memories, reflecting the author's nostalgia for his childhood and his longing for the south of Beijing. Below I will share with you some knowledge points about old things in Chengnan. I hope it can help you. Welcome to read!
Knowledge points about old things in Chengnan
1. "Chengnan" "Old Things" was written by Taiwanese female writer Lin Haiyin. Her original name was Lin Hanying, and her nickname was Yingzi. "Old Things in the South of the City" is a collection of autobiographical short stories. The novel is divided into five parts, namely: "Hui'an Pavilion" "Let's Go to Watch the Sea" "Aunt Lan" "The Donkey Rolls" "I am no longer a child even after my father's flowers fall". "Dongyang Childhood Camel Team" is the preface of this book.
2. Li Ge is the "Farewell" song by Li Shutong (a famous music and art educator, calligrapher, and drama activist) sung at the graduation ceremony.
3. When Yingzi was playing in the alley, he would always see the "crazy woman" Xiuzhen standing in front of the guild hall. Gradually, they got to know each other. Xiuzhen liked Yingzi very much, and Yingzi also liked her very much. . According to Xiuzhen, her daughter "Xiao Guizi" was also thrown under the Qihuamen City, and her life and death are still uncertain.
4. The experience and fate of the "thief" happened when the kind-hearted Yingzi was looking for friendship. It was a tragedy that appeared in the sequence of Yingzi's life. Therefore, Yingzi picked up a small bronze Buddha on the grass and was discovered by police detectives, who brought the patrol officers to arrest the young man. This incident made Yingzi very sad.
5. Song Ma, the wet nurse of the Yingzi family, left her children and family behind and came to work as a servant in the Lin family. She worked hard to make money to support the men and children in the countryside. Song Ma was diligent and honest. I like Xiao Yingzi and her brother very much. One day, Yingzi came back from school and saw Song's mother sitting blankly under the eaves. It turned out that her son Xiao Shuanzi was drowned, and her daughter was sold to someone unknown by her husband...
6. Yingzi wore an oleander planted by her father when she attended the graduation ceremony. At the graduation ceremony, he received his diploma on behalf of all his classmates.
7. Because her uncle was killed by the Japanese, Yingzi's father was so anxious that he vomited blood. Yingzi's father was seriously ill in bed and could not attend Yingzi's graduation ceremony.
8. In the story "Hui'an Pavilion", my father taught me to draw red. There is a poem we have learned: After going two or three miles, there are four or five houses in Yancun, six or seven pavilions, eight -Ninety flowers.
9. Xiuzhen once secretly fell in love with Si Kang, a college student. Later, the college student was arrested by the police. The daughter Xiuzhen gave birth to, Xiaoguizi, was thrown under the city root by her family, and her life and death are unknown. After Xiuzhen recognized her daughter after six years of separation, she immediately took her to find her father. As a result, the mother and daughter died tragically "under the wheels of a train."
10. "Little Actor" Niu'er was afraid of being beaten by her adoptive father and scolded by her adoptive mother. Despite her fragile body, she was determined to find her biological father and mother on her own, and she took action. She stole two pieces of clothing in advance and hid them in the utility room of Yingzi's house, and prepared to take the baggage to Qikumen (the place where someone picked it up when she was a child).
11. Twice a year, Song Ma’s husband leads a donkey to Yingzi’s house to visit Song Ma. Later, Song's mother learned that her daughter was given to the man who pulled the carriage. When Song Ma and Yingzi went to find the little girl to rest together, they saw someone buying something called Donkey Rolling. It was cooked yellow rice noodles, stuffed with brown sugar, and rolled in mung bean flour. It was very fragrant. Unable to find her daughter, she finally decided to follow her husband home.
12. "Aunt Lan" mainly tells the story of Aunt Lan who was sold to others at the age of three, brought to Beijing from Suzhou at the age of fourteen, and married to a sixty-eight-year-old man at the age of twenty. experience. She was bullied in this family, and later fled there and came to Yingzi's home, which disrupted the peaceful life of Yingzi's family. During the period when the New Youth were making revolution, many revolutionary young people were killed. A man named Dexian often went to Yingzi's house to hide, and fell in love with Aunt Lan during his contact with her. The situation in Beijing was tense, so Aunt Lan and he left Beijing for Tianjin and Shanghai.
13. In the 1920s, the little girl Lin Yingzi followed her parents across the ocean from Taiwan to Beijing and lived in a small courtyard in the Hui'an Guild Hall near the south of Beijing.
Her father is a university professor, and she has a little brother and a wet nurse at home. Her childhood was spent in this carefree atmosphere.
Character
★Yingzi: Yingzi was born in a relatively wealthy family. She is a kind, smart, bold and compassionate girl. She sympathized with Niu'er and Xiuzhen's experiences, and became friends with thieves who were forced to live. When she saw the improper relationship between her father and Aunt Lan, she could come up with the perfect way to rescue her mother; when Song's mother encountered misfortune, , she cared about Song Ma and tried her best to help Song Ma; in the end, her father's death made Xiao Yingzi grow up and become more sensible.
★Xiuzhen: A "madman" in the eyes of others, she is the first friend Yingzi makes. She fell in love with college student Si Kang and became pregnant, but after Si Kang left, she disappeared. The daughter she gave birth to, Niuer, was also abandoned by her family, and she eventually went "crazy" under multiple blows. Later, with the help of Yingzi, she recognized Niuer and her daughter and planned to find Si Kang, but they both died tragically under the train.
★Yingzi’s father: Yingzi’s father is a warm, kind, knowledgeable, and thirsty for knowledge. He cherished the progressive young virtues and was able to make friends with him and provide him with protection. He is gentle and gentle, loving but not doting on his children. Under his influence, Yingzi learned to write very early and spoke on behalf of the graduates as he wished. Later, in order to allow Yingzi to attend the graduation ceremony with peace of mind, he concealed his illness.
★Thief: A young man with thick lips who Eiko met in the deserted garden after moving to her new home. He is simple, honest, and loves his younger brother, but he is forced by life to embark on the road of stealing. He met and became friends with Eiko who went to the deserted garden to pick up balls. Later, Yingzi accidentally picked up a small bronze Buddha on a deserted grassland, which led to him being targeted by police spies and eventually arrested.
★Aunt Lan: Aunt Lan is the concubine of the old man of the Shi family. She is kind, pungent, enthusiastic and stubborn. Because she was dissatisfied with her life as a convict, she left the Shi family and went to Yingzi's family. At Yingzi's house, she was not only able to get along with Yingzi's mother, Song's mother and others, but she also won Yingzi's love. Later, under Yingzi's arrangement and matchmaking, she finally got together with Dexian, a good friend of Yingzi's father, and they both left.
★Song Ma: The nanny of Yingzi's family. She has worked in Yingzi's family for many years. She is hardworking and kind, and is loved by Yingzi's family. She misses her children every day, but eventually gets the news that her husband, who is addicted to gambling, sold her youngest daughter and her eldest son accidentally drowned. After searching for her daughter to no avail, she went home with her husband under the persuasion of Yingzi's mother.
"Old Things in the South of the City" Thoughts after Reading
"Old Things in the South of the City" is the first novel I read. This book is very exciting and I was fascinated by it as soon as I read it.
The novel adopts the first-person narrative method, and all the events and situations recorded and described were witnessed, heard, felt or thought by the protagonist Xiao Yingzi. In this way, what Xiao Yingzi experienced People and stories make readers feel novel and authentic. The novel's language, characters and story content all reflect its "Beijing flavor" characteristics. It shows readers strong Beijing regional characteristics, such as Beijing dialect, Beijing people, Beijing customs, etc.
I like "Hui'an Pavilion" the most. This section is the most exciting and beautiful. Yingzi helped Xiuzhen reunite with Niuer, but unfortunately died in Under the train wheels. Xiuzhen and Niuer are so pitiful!
I also like the interlude in "Daddy's flowers have fallen, and I am no longer a child", which reflects the loving side of dad. , although my father is strict, he does it for the good of "me" and does not want "me" to develop bad habits.
In "Aunt Lan", in order for Uncle Dexian and Aunt Lan to have mutual affection, However, the cunning "I" tried his best to erase the "four-eyed dog" and instead said that Uncle Quade was knowledgeable. During lunch, the two looked at each other, which showed that "I"'s plan was successful. The role of Xiao Yingzi here is like a matchmaker. She uses her cleverness and cunning to save her family.
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"Old Things in the South of the City" is really too It’s so good. It still gives me endless aftertaste.
The main content of "Old Stories in the South of the City"
It describes the life of an ordinary family in a courtyard in the south of Beijing in the late 1920s. The childish eyes of the little girl Yingzi saw all kinds of people and things in Beijing at that time. The characters in the article finally left little Yingzi, expressing the sadness and nostalgia of saying goodbye to childhood.