Last year's tree article Jane said

Last year's Tree is a novel, poem and literary work by Japanese writer Shimei Nanzhi. This article tells a story that birds and trees are good friends. It sings to the tree every day. When it wants to fly back to the south, the bird agrees to the tree's request-it will come back and sing to the tree. But the next spring, when the bird flew back to find its friend, the tree disappeared. The bird looked everywhere and finally found a lamp lit with a match made of trees. Friends are gone, friendships are still there, and promises are still there. Therefore, its heart is full of sadness and melancholy. Facing the kerosene lamp lit by a friend's life, it sang last year's song.

This fairy tale mainly unfolds the story through dialogue and promotes the development of the story. Full text1* *, there are four dialogues: the first dialogue is between birds and trees, and it is agreed that when they meet next spring, birds will sing to trees; The second time is a dialogue between birds and roots. The bird asked the root where the tree had gone, and the root told it that the woodcutter had cut down the tree with an axe and pulled it into the valley. The third time was a conversation between a bird and a man. The bird asked Mr. Men where the tree was, and the door told him that the tree was cut into thin strips to make matches and sold to the village. The fourth time was a conversation between a bird and a little girl. The bird asked the little girl, and the little girl told him that the matches had been used up, leaving only the lamp lit with matches. These four dialogues constitute a complete story, and the truth expounded in the article is gradually revealed in these four dialogues and later the performance of the bird.

This fairy tale is full of deep feelings, with a touch of sadness, praising the lofty and tragic friendship. The language of the whole fairy tale is unpretentious, and there are no flowery words in the full text. The sincere friendship between birds and trees is written by line drawing, which omits the psychological description of birds in the process of finding friends and aiming at lights, leaving a lot of imagination space for readers, and there is a deep and transparent beauty in plain language. After reading this article, birds' deep affection for trees jumped into their minds and lingered.

This paper belongs to anthropomorphic fairy tales, aiming at guiding readers to understand the truth revealed by fairy tales and helping readers to further feel the characteristics of fairy tales, especially the characteristics of anthropomorphic fairy tales in the characterization of the protagonist, the arrangement of story plots, language expression and so on. This is also the focus and difficulty of this teaching.