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What is the fourth chapter of the old story south of the city?

Chapter 4 "Rolling on the Donkey".

Main contents:

It is about Ma Song, the wet nurse of the author Eiko's family. She came to be a wet nurse because of her difficult life and hard work, so she stayed at home. She has been sending peace letters and paying wages to her family, in order to let her husband buy the land back and let her son Xiao Shuan have a better life.

But her husband gambled with money. When he had no money, he asked Ma Song for money, so Eiko's parents hated him. Later, Ma Song learned that Xiao Shuan died a few years ago, and Ma Song was very sad.

Ma Song wants to find her other child named Xiao Ya Tu. Because they prefer boys to girls, the young woman has been sold to others since she was a child, and now she wants her daughter back without her son. So Ma Song took Eiko to find her daughter, but she found nothing and never heard from her again. Later, Ma Song was picked up by her husband with a little donkey.

Extended data

Old Things in the South of the City is the representative work of Lin, a female writer in Taiwan Province Province. This work tells the story of Eiko's childhood through her childish eyes, reflecting the author's nostalgia for childhood and the south of Beijing.

Creation 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.

The influence of later generations

The book "Old Stories in the South of the City" is not only a portrayal of the author's childhood life, but also a portrayal of the life of ordinary people in Beijing that year, and it is also her most influential work. He was selected as "Top 100 China Novels in the 20th Century" by Asia Weekly.

1999 was included in the list of "100 excellent books of China literature in the last century" jointly sponsored by People's Literature Publishing House and Beijing Book Building. In 2000, it was included in the "Required Reading Series for Middle School Students in the New Curriculum Standard" planned and published by People's Literature Publishing House. Many of these works have also been selected into middle school textbooks.

Old Stories in the South of the City is one of the century-old classic series of children's literature in China. This series is not only a comprehensive publishing project of original children's literature in China, but also a cultural accumulation and inheritance project with important practical significance and historical value, and it is also a promotion project to reshape modern children's literature in China.

1983 The film "Old Things in the South of the City" directed by Wu was released in China. He has also won the Golden Rooster Award for Chinese films, the Golden Eagle Award for Manila International Film Festival in the Philippines, the Equator Award for Quito International Film Festival in Ecuador, and the Belgrade International Children's Film Thought Award in Yugoslavia.

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