In Little Orange Lantern, the author points out: "The little girl is the central figure in the story. Her father is an underground party member, who left home because the party organization was destroyed. Her mother was beaten by the tracking spy and vomited blood. In this incident, this little girl is calm, brave and optimistic. " . In this paper, the scenery is described many times: gloomy sky, "misty and confused mountain scenery" and "dark and humid mountain road", which renders a gloomy, confused and dark atmosphere and gives a strong foil to the small orange lamp. The small orange lamp is made of opaque orange peel, and only "a short wax head" is lit. Its "hazy orange-red light can't really shine far." Strictly speaking, it is really not a "lamp", but in this darkness, the faint red light emitted by this orange lamp is so dazzling! In this suffocating darkness, it brings vitality and vitality to people, and points out the symbolic significance of the little orange lamp.
Little Orange Lantern: Bing Xin's self-report-Little Orange Lantern is a short article I wrote for China Youth Daily on January 19th, 1957. It was the Spring Festival coming. So I mentioned the Spring Festival at the beginning and end of this essay, and also talked about the common "lights" during the Spring Festival. The central fact of the article is what "my friend" said later: "Last year, several students in Yamashita Medical College were taken away as * * * producers, and later Wang Chunlin disappeared. It is said that he often delivered letters for those students." The story is set in Geleshan, a suburb of Chongqing. I lived there for more than four years during the Anti-Japanese War. There is a medical college under Gele Mountain. I know several teachers and students in this college. Not far from the mountain, there is a flat land called Lotus Pond. There is a township office next to the pond. There is a public telephone upstairs, and there are some stalls selling fruits, peanuts and miscellaneous sugar outside the door. Cars coming and going often stop there. There are only three people in the story, me and the little girl and "my friend". I arranged the residence of "my friend" upstairs in the township office, because I went to visit this friend, and she was not here, so I had the opportunity to talk to the girl in bed and know her father's name and her residence. The little girl is the center of the story. Her father is an underground party member, who left home because the party organization was destroyed. Her mother was beaten by the tracking spy and vomited blood. In this incident, the little girl is calm, brave and optimistic. In this scene, I described her actions, such as going up the mountain to make a phone call, calling a doctor, making a small orange lamp, and writing her conversation with me: "My father will definitely come back soon, and then my mother will be fine." The word "must" expressed her strong belief, then she waved a big circle with her arm, and finally took my hand and said, "We are all well!" " In other words: soon, the whole country will be liberated. "My friend" is a fictional character, because I only took a short paragraph in the middle of the story, so I only went to see my friend "in the afternoon one day before the Spring Festival", and "that night, I left the mountain village". I can "ignore" the cause and effect of this story. Only the simplest words that are easy for children to accept are used to describe an accidental incident from the afternoon to the night, which is as dark and gloomy as the political environment and climate in Chongqing at that time. And all the gloom is just to set off that small "hazy orange light", how to break through the gloom and darkness, so that I feel "there is infinite light in front of me." This happened on the eve of the Spring Festival in 1945, twelve years before I wrote this essay, so I just used "Twelve years later, the little girl's father must have come back early, and her mother must have recovered, right?" Because now we' all' are' good'! " To conclude, it shows that the little girl's optimism and confidence have been confirmed after twelve years. On the morning of March 12, 1979 (citing relevant data of Bing Xin).