south of the old
Lin's masterpiece is the novel Old Things in the South of the City, which describes the social features of old Beijing. It was once put on the movie screen and loved by the audience, describing the life of an ordinary person in a quadrangle in Beijing in the late 1920s. Old stories in the south of the city include five short stories, namely Hui An Ting, Watching the Sea, Aunt Lan, Rolling on a Donkey, and Dad's Flowers Bloom. The film describes all kinds of people and things in Beijing at that time through the eyes of the little girl Eiko. Through the seemingly narrow description, it reflects the whole historical face of Beijing at that time and has strong social significance. Lin said in the "Postscript" of Old Events in the South of the City: "Over the past few years, I have successively completed these chapters of this book. Their story may not be true, but when I wrote it, people kept popping up in front of my eyes, such as Aunt Lan, who grinned, Uncle Dexian, who rode back to his hometown and ignored our children, crazy woman in Chunshu Hutong, friends by the well, thieves hiding in the haystack. " From this simple list of characters, we can easily see that although the author is an intellectual of scholarly family, the characters in her novels are not limited to this narrow scope. She cares about the vast society and is good at describing all kinds of social people. Most of the characters in her novels are citizens, while the central characters are all kinds of women. She devotes herself to depicting the virtues of China women's diligence, wisdom, gentleness and kindness, and is better at expressing the shackles of their hearts and the tragedy of their fate. To exaggerate, every novel of hers is inseparable from the tragedy of women. Someone commented: "Most of her writing is aimed at women's issues. However, she can often think about the special experience of women in Taiwan Province Province from the crux of women's problems in the world, and the depth has reached beyond the boundaries of women. If Lin is regarded as the soul of the older generation of female writers, it can be said that due to the limitation of the trend of the times, their rebellion is less, and their complaints and protests are also mild and powerless. " The content of Lin's novels is probably "the past south of the city" in childhood memory, and the novels contain traces of autobiography. However, its situation is not narrow. Like all successful writers, her novels are small and big, and we can get a glimpse of the times from the old events in the south of the city. Therefore, her works have certain cognitive value and social significance, and also have certain influence on the literary world in Taiwan Province Province. This book is full of deep poetry in light sadness.
Her "Daddy's Flowers Fall" was published in the second volume of the seventh grade of China People's Education Press.
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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 first friend. Xiuzhen once had a crush on a college student. Later, college students were taken away by the police, and Xiuzhen's daughter, Xiao Guizi, was left at the foot of the city by her family. Life and death are unknown. Eiko is very sympathetic to her. Eiko learned that the little girl's life is very similar to that of the little devil, found the mark on the back of her neck, and quickly took her to Xiuzhen. Xiuzhen knew her daughter who had been separated for six years, and immediately took her to find her father. As a result, the mother and daughter died tragically under the train wheels. Houjia moved to Xinlian 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, the police took the young man away, and Eiko was very sad. When Eiko was nine years old, Feng Daming, the husband of her wet nurse Ma Song, came to the Lins. Eiko was very sad to learn that Ma Song's son fell into the river and drowned two years ago, and her daughter was sold to someone else by her husband. She couldn't understand why Ma Song left her children to wait on others. Later, Eiko's father died of lung disease. Ma Song was also picked up by her husband with a little donkey. Eiko took his family on a long-distance carriage and said goodbye to his childhood with all kinds of doubts.
The structure of this film is quite novel. The director ruled out the narrative structure consisting of beginning, development, climax and ending, took "light sadness and deep lovesickness" as the keynote, and connected three stories with no causal relationship in a beaded structure, forming a "prose film" with psychological feelings as the main content and pictures and sound modeling as the forms of expression, creating a kind of tranquility, indifference and simplicity like China ink painting. Old Things in the South of the City is a typical literati film style.
Evaluation of works
"The Past in the South of the City" is a novel with five units. Together, it is a novel. Lin looked at the vicissitudes of the adult world from the eyes of children.
Lin said in the preface to the old events in the south of the city: "Did readers notice that at the end of every story, the protagonists left me?" Until the last article "Dad's Flowers Fall", my dear father left, and my childhood was over. Yes, Xiuzhen, a crazy woman, a thief hiding in the grass, a crooked aunt Lan, rode home on a donkey, and the last loving father left Eiko one by one. My father's flowers have fallen, and I am no longer a child. "
It contains Lin's deep feelings of parting and lovesickness, which makes us vaguely see a pair of tears flashing behind the curtain of words, which is stirring and shocking.