A brief introduction to the past in the south of the city ..

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 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.

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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.

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