Looking at Xiao Hong's Childhood from Biography of Hulan River

Biography of Hulan River is a long documentary novel written by Xiao Hong in Wuhan from 65438 to 0937. It is also a period when young women writers are in a state of war and confusion; In a state of wandering life; Recalling the bits and pieces of her hometown, she wrote her last unforgettable novel.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan in the Northern Song Dynasty shows the folk customs of Tokyo, the capital of the Song Dynasty, by painting. Xiao Hong described China's "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" in a small town called Hulanhe in northern China in the 1920s and 1930s with exquisite writing.

Whether it's colorful small shops, river lanterns, rope skipping, Shentaizi drama in the town, or wind, frost, rain, snow and flaming clouds in the northern nature, Xiao Hong has the language of painting, which depicts a life-filled image for us.

Influenced by modern enlightenment thought, Xiao Hong also described the ignorance and absurdity of her hometown without whitewashing in Biography of Hulan River, putting her grief and indignation in ridicule and satire, and examining the land where she grew up with a critical eye. With real description, it broke the convention of beautifying homesickness works.

19 1 1 The Revolution of 1911 broke out, and the feudal dynasty of thousands of years came to an abrupt end in this year, and a new * * * republic was born. Every life is closely related to the society and times in which he lives.

Xiao Hong, a talented woman in the Republic of China, whose real name is Hua Rong and her real name is Zhang Xiuhuan. In the year when the Revolution of 1911 broke out, 19 1 1 was born in a big landlord family in Hulanhe County, Harbin. Xiao Hong's father, Zhang Tingju, graduated from Heilongjiang Excellent Normal School, worked as a teacher and county education officer, and advocated new education. He is a famous reformer in Hulan County.

My mother gave birth to four children, and Xiaohong was the eldest. Most of my mother's energy is spent on my younger brothers, and my father is not at home all the year round. Lack of parents' care makes her and her parents' feelings relatively weak.

Grandma will be ready to prick her little hand when she is naughty enough to prick it with her hand. Only her grandfather, who is nearly 70 years old, gives her warmth and care. She often follows her grandfather to pick flowers and grow grass in the back garden. After she became an adult, her grandfather and back garden came into her pen again and again, which was her spiritual paradise.

"Grandpa wore a big straw hat and I wore a small straw hat. I planted flowers when my grandfather planted flowers, and I pulled weeds when my grandfather pulled weeds. Grandpa planted all kinds of Chinese cabbage, I followed, one by one with my feet to smooth out the planted soil nest ... "

When Xiaohong was 8 years old, her mother left her because of illness. My father is not good at housework, so he resumed his marriage one hundred days after her mother died. The death of her mother, her father's indifference and her stepmother's dislike made this 8-year-old girl feel particularly delicate and sensitive to the unfortunate situation in the lives of people around her.

Fortunately, the first girls' school was established in Hulanhe 1920. Xiao Hong, 9, entered this school because of her superior family conditions and her father's enlightened reformist personality. The poor helpless young mind was finally comforted and breathed fresh air. She studies very hard.

Educated Xiao Hong gradually woke up, participated in the movement of new cultural thoughts, made public appearances, and organized parades to raise money. New behaviors and new thoughts challenge the definitions of female identity and female behavior in male-dominated society and male-dominated society. So when she 15 years old graduated from high school and wanted to go to Harbin for junior high school, her father resolutely opposed it and married her. Father is afraid that his daughter will learn "bad", and those boys and girls in Harbin will hold hands and even kiss, which is really indecent!