1. The Back Shadow
The Back Shadow is a reminiscent essay written by modern writer Zhu Ziqing in 1925. The essay describes the author's departure from Nanjing to Beijing University, where his father sent him to Pukou Railway Station, took care of him on the train, and bought oranges for him.
What impresses the author most is the image of his father's back as he climbed up and down the platform to buy the oranges for him. The author uses simple words to express his father's love for his children in a profoundly delicate and sincerely moving way, presenting his father's care and love from ordinary events.
2. Spring
Spring is a work of Zhu Ziqing, a modern essayist. Originally published in July 1933, Spring has long been used in Chinese secondary school textbooks.
In this "hymn to spring", which is "full of poetic meaning", it is in fact full of the writer's thoughts and emotions at a specific time, his pursuit of life and personality, and shows the writer's traditional cultural deposits in his bones and his yearning for a free world.
After 1927, Zhu Ziqing always searched for and created an ideal world in his soul, the world of dreams, in order to put his "rather unquiet" heart against the disturbance of the outside world, and to keep him "alone" in his secluded study. The world of dreams is the world of the dream, which is used to put his "rather unquiet" heart against the disturbances of the outside world, so that he can "be alone" in the seclusion of the study and accomplish his study.
Spring depicts and eulogizes a vigorous spring, but it is a realistic portrayal of Zhu Ziqing's spiritual world.
3. Moonlight in a Lotus Pond
Moonlight in a Lotus Pond is a piece of prose written by the Chinese writer Zhu Ziqing when he was teaching at Tsinghua University, and it is widely known for its inclusion in the secondary school textbooks, which is a famous piece of modern lyrical prose.
Writing about the beautiful scene of the moonlight in the lotus pond, the essay implicitly and euphemistically expresses the author's dissatisfaction with the reality, desire for freedom, and want to be free from the reality but can't the complexity of the thoughts and feelings, and leaves behind the footprints of the righteous intellectuals of the old China who wandered in the midst of the tribulations for the future generations.
Supporting a kind of political thought of the author yearning for the future, it also sends the author's love for the moonlight in the lotus pond.
4. Sunrise on the Sea
Sunrise on the Sea is one of Ba Jin's essays on landscape. The article focuses on the order of sunrise, sunrise, sunrise after the sunrise, depicting the sunrise on the sea in clear weather and cloudy several different scenes, showing the sunrise of this great spectacle. The language of the article is beautiful, easy to understand and easy to learn.
5. Autumn in the Forbidden City
Autumn in the Forbidden City is an essay written by Yu Dafu, a famous modern Chinese novelist, essayist, poet, and revolutionary martyr in August 1934.
April 12, 1927 Chiang Kai-shek staged a counter-revolutionary coup.
The period from April 12, 1927, to 1949, when the Kuomintang (KMT) retreated to Taiwan, was known as the White Terror. In April 1933, Yu Dafu moved from Shanghai to Hangzhou to escape the threat of KMT terror.
In July 1934, Yu Dafu went from Hangzhou to Beiping (present-day Beijing) via Qingdao, where he once again tasted the "flavor of autumn" in his hometown and wrote this article. The whole text of Autumn in the Forbidden City is more than 1,500 words, using 42 words of autumn to embellish the "clarity," "quietness," and "sadness" of autumn in the northern part of the country, and everywhere permeated with Yu Dafu's negative and positive emotions in the tangle and struggle. positive emotions in the tangle and struggle of traces.
The "autumn" of the old capital is in fact Yu Dafu's "autumn", the "autumn" that expresses his subjective feelings, aesthetic orientation, literary temperament and human attitude. The sadness and beauty of this article is related to the traditional sadness of the autumn complex, related to the author's character, and related to the background of the creation of the work.