I can feel that the characteristics of Lao She's "Crescent Moon" are: emphasis on emotional expression.
Different from Mr. Lao She's "Luotuo Xiangzi", this novella "Crescent Moon" reveals in a deeper level the misery of the poor people at the lower class, especially women, in a special era and under special circumstances. The full text is in chapter 1. The one-person narrative uses "I am looking at the crescent moon" to illustrate the pain I have experienced.
The "Crescent Moon" is a symbol of the protagonist's life and destiny. After her father died, she saw the "Crescent Moon" with a "cold air"; when she and her mother went to the grave together, the "Crescent Moon" was placed on "Cold light"; when there was nothing to pawn and my mother was going to pawn her only silver jewelry, "Crescent Moon" was crooked... During this period, the protagonist lost his father and his family was poor, so at this time "Crescent Moon" was Cold.
In the article, from the beginning, I did not understand my mother’s career and the misery of the world, to the resistance after understanding it, to the final surrender, which fully reflects the torture and inner pain of women in that era. pain. This article has 43 sections. The more you read, the more you can feel the pain, sadness and sorrow in Mr. Lao She's heart when he wrote this article.
Introduction to the author:
Lao She (February 3, 1899 - August 24, 1966), formerly known as Shu Qingchun, also given the courtesy name Sheyu, was born in Beijing and graduated from Beijing Normal University. , a modern Chinese novelist, writer, language master, and the first writer in New China to win the title of "People's Artist". Lao She enrolled in the publicly funded Beijing Normal School in 1913. After graduating in 1918 to 1924, he worked as a teacher in various schools in Beijing and Tianjin.
He went to the UK in the autumn of 1924 and worked as a Chinese lecturer in the Department of Chinese Studies, Oriental College, University of London; in the summer of 1929, he taught at the Overseas Chinese Middle School in Singapore for half a year; after returning to China in the spring of 1930 to 1937, he successively taught at Qilu University in Jinan and Shandong University in Qingdao; in early 1938, the All-China Literary and Art Circles Anti-Enemy Association was established in Wuhan, and Lao She was elected as the executive director and director of the General Affairs Department; in March 1946, Lao She accepted the invitation of the U.S. State Department to give lectures in the United States.