It mainly describes the experience that Aunt Lan was sold to others at the age of three, brought to Beijing from Suzhou at the age of fourteen, and married a 68-year-old man at the age of twenty.
She was bullied in this family, and later fled there and came to Eiko's house, disrupting the quiet life of Eiko's family. Eiko hated Aunt Lan from then on.
"New Youth" During the revolution, many revolutionary youths were killed. A man named Dexian often goes to Eiko's house to hide. Eiko thought of a way to introduce Aunt Lan to Uncle Dexian. Dexian fell in love with Aunt Lan in the process of contacting her.
The situation in Beijing was tight, so Aunt Lan and Dexian left Beijing for Tianjin and Shanghai. Since then, the Eiko family has resumed a quiet life.
Extended data:
Aunt Lan is an oppressed and humiliated family image in the old society, which reflects the low status of women in the old society and all kinds of injustice and harm imposed on them.
The creative background of the past events in the south of the city;
"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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