Original text:
At that time, I thought that everything that could make a sound was alive. Birds sing beautifully in the morning, dogs bark at night, cicadas bark on the green trees in summer, and various insects sing different songs in the grass in autumn. The clock in the bell tower is not alive, but sometimes it rings loudly. It was an old man knocking at the door, and the voice of the lyre sounded from time to time in the street. That is a blind man playing.
This article comes from the first volume of the sixth grade text, Feng Zhi's "Surface Life".
Extended data writing background:
Feng Zhi, the author of the text, is a famous modern poet, translator and professor. His major works include Song of Yesterday and The Sonnets. Lu Xun once rated him as "the most outstanding lyric poet in China".
Part I (1-9): When I was a child, I thought that everything that could make a sound was alive, so I was extremely curious about my father's watch.
Part II (10- 16): My father opened the watch for me to read and answered my questions.
Part III (17-2 1): "I" believed what my father said about the little scorpion.