The old stories in the south of the city are full of nostalgic tone, showing their multi-level emotional color in a natural and seamless way. Everything in the book is so orderly. Slow flowing water, slow camel team, slowly passing crowd, slowly passing years ... The perfect combination of scenery, events, people, things and feelings is like an elegant and implicit poem.
This work consists of five chapters: Hui An Ting, the place where we went to see the sea, Aunt Lan, a snowball and her father's flowers fell. The full text was caused by one person-Eiko, who looked at the life in Beiping with childish eyes, recorded Eiko's growing experience from the age of seven to thirteen, watched the joys and sorrows of the adult world, and recorded the old life events around her when she was young with her subtle memories.
Eiko's world is simple and full of doubts. She never locks herself in her own world and always lets people in and out. So she forged a friendship with Xiuzhen, who was considered crazy by people, and went to Huian Hall every three days. She wrote a promise with the "thief" and even listened carefully to the story told by the "thief"; She loved her wet nurse and watched her leave. Eiko is very sad. Through Eiko's childish eyes, we see the joys and sorrows of the adult world. Although naive, it shows complex feelings about the world.
At the end of each article in this book, the protagonist always seems to leave Eiko, just like the crazy Xiuzhen in Huian Pavilion. We watched the thief, the wet nurse, and finally even her father left her, when she had just graduated from primary school! Watching uncut flowers fall at will also marks the end of this book.
Although "Old Things in the South of the City" makes people cry after reading it, every touching story is filled with warm affection and friendship. Although at the end of each story, the protagonists in it all leave the author, the author writes the appearance of each character incisively and vividly through positive description and negative comparison, and their personalities are completely exposed. Even if they close their eyes, their shadows still appear in front of them: friends by the well, crazy women in Chunshu Hutong, thieves hiding in the haystack, aunt Lan with a crooked mouth, uncle Dexian who ignores the children, riding back to their hometown. Composed of the author's writing world, in this world, with the warm wind of the world blowing all over every corner, blowing the reader's peaceful mind, this is a fragrant book, but also a useful book, which can make people appreciate a lot of life truths.
Watching Old Things in the South of the City, I feel a little warm, because I rarely see such exquisite things, because she doesn't deliberately express anything, but calmly depicts old Beijing in the eyes of a child scene by scene, just like living in self-introduction. It is so unhurried, gentle and peaceful, so quiet and peaceful, so long-lasting, so full of fireworks, but there is no pursuit of fame and fortune.