Mom told me,
Along the winding path,
You will walk out of Tianshan Mountain.
The distant city of Beijing,
There is a magnificent Tiananmen Square.
The flag-raising ceremony in the square was spectacular.
I said to my mother,
How much I want to see it,
How I want to see it.
Dad told me,
Along the wide highway,
You will go out of Beijing.
In the distant Xinjiang,
There are beautiful Tianshan mountains,
Snow-capped mountains are covered with snow-white snow lotus.
I said to my father:
How much I want to see it,
How I want to see it.
Appreciation of What I Want to See tells in the first person that children in Xinjiang want to go to distant Beijing to see the flag-raising ceremony in Tiananmen Square, and children in Beijing want to go to distant Xinjiang to see the snow lotus in Tianshan Mountain, expressing their good wishes for understanding the outside world.
There are two natural paragraphs in the full text, which are told by two children respectively. 1 In the natural section, "I" in Xinjiang learned about Beijing from my mother and was eager to see Beijing. In the second paragraph, I learned about Xinjiang from my father and had a desire to visit Xinjiang. The text is accompanied by two illustrations, corresponding to two natural paragraphs in the text.
China has a vast territory, and the author has chosen two representative areas, "Beijing" and "Xinjiang", to inspire students' yearning and love for the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.