Background of the story of The Old Man and the Seagull

Background introduction to "The Old Man and the Seagull":

The name of the old man Seagull is Wu Qingheng, and he is an ordinary Kunming citizen. The reason why he is called Old Seagull is because every winter, Green Lake in Kunming welcomes a large number of migrating seagulls. At this time, there is always an old man who walks more than 20 miles from the suburbs of the city to Green Lake every day, bringing some bread he bought to care for these beautiful seagulls. ?

The old man has a pair of kind eyes on his wrinkled face. He carries a homemade white cloth bag on his shoulder, which is filled with food for the seagulls. He always smiled and stared at the seagulls flying up and down in front of him and gave them food. According to the old man, these seagulls are humane. When a seagull is hurt, it will call other seagulls away with a shrill cry.

Introduction to the author of "The Old Man and the Seagull":

Deng Qiyao, member of the academic committee of the "Southwestern Frontier Ethnic Research Center of Yunnan University", a key research base for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan University and Yunnan Ethnic Group Visiting professor of the college.

Executive Director and Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Folklore Society, Director of the Humanities and Historical Geography Professional Committee of the China Exploration Association, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Folklore Photography Association, Specially Invited Expert and Sino-US Cooperation Center of the U.S.-China Art Exchange Center of Columbia University The Chinese person in charge of the "National Culture Field Research Group".

Now while teaching at Sun Yat-sen University, he also serves as the instructor of Feitian Creative Work at Sun Yat-sen University. Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Sun Yat-sen University, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Folklore Society, and director of the Humanities and Historical Geography Professional Committee of the China Exploration Association; his research interests are folklore and visual anthropology.

Extended information:

The literary work "The Old Man and the Seagull" comes from a true story:

An old man Wu Qingheng walked more than 20 times a day in order to feed seagulls. He went to Green Lake in Kunming to deliver food to his beloved seagulls. The old man and the seagull became friends and became a part of the scenery of Green Lake. Later, the old man passed away, and kind-hearted people made a statue for the old man and placed it by the green lake so that the old man could always look at his seagulls. This statue is called "Old Man Seagull".

This work was selected into the textbook as a model essay. Lesson 21 of the first volume of the Chinese language book for grade 6 in the People's Education Press version (the text is read by Huo Ran and Lu Yang), Lesson 1 of the second volume of the Chinese language book for grade 5 in the Lujiao version, and Lesson 9 of the second volume of the Chinese language book for fifth grade in the Chinese S version.

The author of the original text is the anthropologist Mr. Deng Qiyao, and the text "The Old Man and the Seagull" is adapted from the article "The Lonely Gull Spirit" by Mr. Deng Qiyao.

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