Main contents:

My husband, a lazy gambler, went to the Lins' home as a wet nurse after giving birth to a pair of children. Her husband gave up her daughter, and her son is said to have fallen into the river and drowned. It was several years before Ma Song realized that Ma Song had been making new clothes for her son Xiao Shuan and bringing new shoelaces home. A few years later, Ma Song came home with her husband on a snowy day.

Rolling on a donkey, also called bean powder cake, is one of the famous traditional snacks in old Beijing, and the finished products are bright in red, white and Huang San. Because the final production process needs to be wrapped in soybeans, just like the bursts of loess raised when wild donkeys roll in the countryside, it is named snowballing.

It is also one of the chapters of "Old Things in the South of the City"-"Rolling on Donkeys". This book was written by Lin, a famous female writer in Taiwan Province.

Extended data:

"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.

With deep feelings and brushwork, Old Things in the South of the City traces back to the old things in the south of Beijing in the 1920s and 1930s. The narrative structure consists of two layers, the surface structure is beaded, and the five stories of Xiaoying's childhood experience are connected in series with growth as a line. The deep structure is the expression and sustenance of the author's inner creative emotion, and the novel organizes the plot by constantly "leaving" to promote the development of the story.

Through the combination and complementarity of internal structure and external structure, the novel has been fully expressed and explained. It contains the author's endless homesickness and is recognized as a masterpiece of homesickness literature.

"Old Things in the South of the City" is full of nostalgic tone, showing its multi-level emotional color in a natural and seamless way. It is a pure prose film with strong civilian consciousness; A euphemistic poem, a quiet artistic conception; It is almost an elegant, indifferent and simple China ink painting; Full of fireworks, but not half of fame and fortune.