Xiaoying is smart and lively, and often laughs at her parents' Minnan Putonghua, adding endless laughter to her family. Kind Xiaoying made friends with crazy Xiuzhen and braved the wind and rain to send the girl to Xiuzhen. Eiko also has a narrow sense of Liangshan hero, stealing mother's jewelry to make travelling expenses for Xiuzhen's mother and daughter to help the girl escape from the hell. Eiko seems to be unable to distinguish between "bad guys" and "good guys". In fact, in her inner world, she always treats others with a kind heart, just like the Buddha treats all beings equally.
Second, the representative of rural women-Ma Song
Apart from her parents, Ma Song is probably the person Xiaoying has the most contact with. Ma Song's tragic fate is the epitome of the working people in the old society. Ma Song went out to work because she couldn't stand being beaten by her alcoholic husband, and for the sake of her children's lives. Unexpectedly, my daughter was sold by her husband and my son drowned. Ma Song still doesn't hate this society and her husband. She looked for her daughter hopefully, and finally returned to that ravine to continue her painful life. This is the life of the bottom people. It seems that all the misfortunes are borne by the working people, but I don't know why there are so many injustices in this society!
Third, different kinds of representatives-lunatics and thieves.
Xiuzhen, a madman, is crazy because her lover left and her child was abandoned. He became a thief because he wanted to send his brother to study abroad. In Eiko's eyes, Xiuzhen is neither a madman nor a thief. Xiuzhen took her daughter and girl to find a lover in love, and eventually they both died under the train wheels, which made people feel sad. The thief wanted his younger brother to get ahead, but he didn't expect that one day.
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Creative background:
"Old Things in the South of the City" was written by Lin in the background of his life from the age of 7 to 13. During the Japanese imperialist occupation of Taiwan Province, the Lins refused to live under the iron heel of the Japanese invaders and moved to Beijing where Xiaoying grew up. Seeing the camel team coming in winter and hearing the slow and sweet bell, childhood returned to the author's mind.
Summer passed, autumn passed, winter came again, camel team came again, but childhood never came back. Because the author misses the scenery and people when he lived in the south of Beijing as a child, he wrote it down, so that the actual childhood passed and the childhood of the soul will last forever. This is the original intention of Lin in writing this novel.
Content introduction:
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 friend. Xiuzhen once fell in love with a college student, Si Kang. Later, Si Kang went back to his hometown and never came back. Xiuzhen's daughter, Xiao Guizi, was sent to the foot of the city wall by her family and disappeared. Eiko was very sympathetic to her, so she promised to help Xiuzhen find Xiaoguizi.
Eiko inadvertently found that the girl's life is very similar to that of the little devil, found the scar on the back of her neck, and quickly took her to Xiuzhen. After Xiuzhen recognized her daughter who had been separated for six years, she immediately took her to her father. But in the end, both mother and daughter died under the train while catching it. Eiko had a high fever and was in a coma for ten days, almost losing her life. Later, Eiko's family moved to Lan Xin 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, Eiko found a small bronze Buddha on the grass, which was found by plainclothes police. They took the young man away with patrol police. This made Eiko sad because he lost a friend.
Later, Aunt Lan came to Eiko's house. Eiko found that his father's attitude towards Aunt Lan was wrong. Eiko thought of a way to introduce Aunt Lan to Uncle Dexian. Later, they fell in love, and finally they left together in a carriage. When Eiko was nine years old, her nanny Ma Song's husband came to the Lins' home. Eiko was very sad when she learned that Ma Song's son drowned two years ago and her daughter was given to a childless three-wheeled couple by her husband. She couldn't understand why Ma Song left her children to wait on others.
Later, Ma Song was picked up by her husband with a little donkey. Finally, Eiko's father died of lung disease. Eiko realized her responsibility because of her father's departure and felt that she had grown up.