Chapter 1: Small wooden boat

"Three children, one wooden boat"

The boundless reed swamps, big rivers, old elm trees, "five-seven" "cadre school, barley field." The author starts with the description of the environment. In the beautiful environment, characters appear one by one with a small wooden boat. First, there is the pale, thin, lonely sunflower; then there is the naughty duck, King Gayu, who teases the sunflower as soon as they meet. ;The last one is Bronze, the big-eyed boy who saves the drifting sunflower.

"Beautiful Reed Marsh"

From the beginning of this book, you can feel the poetic brushwork of the author Cao Wenxuan. The large number of descriptions of the scenery present a wonderful picture, each chapter Every sentence is worth reading over and over again. The description is delicate, the loneliness of the sunflower, the naughty fish, and the kindness of the bronze all come to life on the page. In the last paragraph, the father said that the boy was like your deceased brother. This sentence paved the way for the development of the plot.

In this chapter, many interesting scenes are described. For example, how Sunflower and her father depend on each other; about Sunflower's loneliness and longing for the barley field; about how people in the cadre school breed fish fry; about how the gar fish drives back the ducks that have strayed away; about the songs sung by the children in the barley field; about Bronze and his buffalo ...

Feeling: Poetic as water!

Chapter 2: Sunflower Field

1. This chapter begins with a fire that turns the 5-year-old Bronze into a mute. The mute Bronze stays with her. There are only the lonely shadows of grandma and buffalo. 2. After the equally lonely Sunflower and Bronze met, their lives became filled with laughter and color. 3-5. But the tragedy of life is not over yet. Dad followed the fragrance of sunflowers in the air to the endless sunflower fields in the barley field. He is a sculptor who loves to sculpture bronze sunflowers. He crossed the river alone and came to the sunflower fields. Let yourself wander among the beloved sunflowers, even forgetting your favorite daughter. Until the sunset, he walked into the barley field secretly, as if he was about to give something. Just when he was on the boat in the cadre school, he encountered a whirlwind. The whirlwind did not sweep him away, but took away his sketch of sunflowers. , just as he reached out to grab the painting, he fell into the river. 6. From then on, Sunflower never saw her father again, and a week later Sunflower also disappeared. Finally, the mute Bronze found the sleeping Sunflower in the sunflower field where her father last lingered.

This chapter uses narration to tell the scene where Sunflower and her father depended on each other after her mother died. The author uses delicate writing to describe how her daughter is so innocent, so cute, and so well-behaved. Such a beautiful scene will eventually turn into deeper pain. The so-called tragedy is to watch beautiful things being destroyed before your eyes.

Feeling: Sad!

Chapter 3: Old Locust Tree

1. The May 7th Cadre School is a magical existence. These people from the city are actually more busy working than the farmers in the barley fields. Orphans Sunflowers are naturally difficult to take care of, so they had to send them to the barley field, hoping that a family would adopt them. 2. When I heard the news from the first day, Bronze couldn't sit still. 3. Finally came, the cute sunflowers under the old locust tree sat on the stone mill. The Bronze family looked at it but left. In the village, only the Gayu family remained. 4. The hearts of the Bronze family who left seemed to be left on the stone edge under the old locust tree, and even the cows behaved abnormally. In the end, it was best for grandma to understand Bronze's thoughts, and the family returned to the old locust tree with a tacit understanding. At this time, Qi Yi's father was still planning to adopt a girl and let the duck lay more duck eggs. 5. Under the old locust tree, a fight scene was staged. The Bronze family was in the east and the Gayu family was in the west. One family was poor and the other was rich. The fight was fruitless. In the end, the debate was left to Sunflower to decide. What's interesting is that Sunflower went to Gayu's house in the west. Normally, when they were happy, Sunflower expressed her gratitude and then quickly turned to Bronze's house in the east, so the sunflowers on the cow's back and the bronze on the morning glory were , mother, father and grandma form a harmonious picture.

Feeling: Warm

Chapter 4: Reed Shoes

1. Sunflower integrated into this family overnight, even shorter. From then on, the two villains dug wild vegetables together, caught fish, and went to the sunflower fields... 2. But the family was too poor and could only send one child to school. Both children wanted each other to go to school, so they couldn't argue, and finally used a clay pot I caught ginkgo trees and decided to go to school with sunflowers. 3. Since then, sunflowers have become a unique sight when going to school. Sunflowers ride on the backs of oxen and are escorted by bronzes to and from school. 4. The school photo scandal became a knot in the heart of the family. The family became more diligent and worked harder to make money. 5. Grandma collected firewood, and the whole family made reed shoes. On a snowy day, Bronze braved the cold and sold out all the reed shoes in Yau Ma Tei. The last ten pairs of reed shoes were bought by the cadre school like a treasure, even the shoes on the bronze feet. All sold!

Feeling: Effort

Chapter 5: Golden Thatch

1. Sunflower suddenly thought of teaching her brother to read. This news surprised the whole family. Excited, at the same time, bronze has a different life. 2. Just as the family was immersed in happiness and laughing every night, a strong wind destroyed their house, leaving only four underwater walls and a big fish caught in bronze in the water.

3. My family was already poor, but now it is even poorer. I don’t want to light the lights at night. Sunflower always goes to her classmates’ houses to do her homework. The sensible Sunflower has suffered a lot of injustice because of this. Mom and Dad see it and will Sunflowers make the most beautiful jack-o-lanterns. 4. The family began to plan to build a thatched house, so they tried their best to collect money, especially grandma. 5. After collecting enough money, Bronze and his father left home to mow grass on the beach. His father felt sorry for this ill-fated child. Bronze met Qing Gou and his son, and then he realized that he was the happiest child in the world. 6. The father and son finally returned home with a boatload of thatch as golden as gold.

Feeling: Warmth

Chapter 6: Ice Necklace

1. The magnificent thatched house is built, shining with gold. 2. A circus performed a show at Daoxiangdu, and there was a sea of ??people. Bronze and Sunflower were lucky enough to find a stone roll, but in the end it was taken away by several boys from Daoxiangdu, which triggered a fight. Because they were outnumbered, they had to give up. Just when they were about to go back, Bronze came up with a good idea, and Sunflower watched the circus on Bronze's neck for several hours. 3. The debt owed for building a house has not been paid off yet, so Yitian’s wild rice is the hope of the family, but unfortunately, the ducks deliberately let the ducks eat them all. 4. Bronze took the blame for Shoutian's sister, and was punished by his father for it. Bronze did not apologize for himself, but the incident remained in his heart. 5. The ducks of Gayu's family were spotted by Bronze, so from time to time, there was a scene in the reed swamp of riding a cow and running wildly among the ducks. 6. For the performance on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Bronze made a necklace for the sunflower using ice to make the sunflower dazzling!

Feeling: Happiness!

Chapter 7:

Chapter 7: Locusts in March

1. Locusts attacked the barley field. Before the locusts arrived, the adults in the barley field were Although they were worried, the children were somewhat looking forward to it. Only when the locusts arrived did they truly feel the disaster. 2. On the day of food shortage, Bronze and Sunflower went deep into the reed marsh to look for reed roots, but almost got lost. When Bronze was about to go crazy, the magical old cow came back with Sunflower who had lost her way. 3. The people in the barley field began to become sick, and the two children could only lie on the boat, look at the white clouds in the sky, and imagine their own feast. 4. Sunflower finally fell down because of hunger. When she saw this issue, Mute Bronze silently walked to the reed swamp and waited for him to come back. He was already carrying a fat and big male duck in his hand, which the whole family ate deliciously. A meal. 5. But the next day, Ayu and his son came to Bronze's house and said that what they ate was their own male duck. The whole village was watching. Bronze's father drove away the duck, but his father picked up the duck. He hit the bronze with a stick, and Sunflower and Grandma tried their best to protect him. 6. The next day, Bronze sat by the river until he caught the shameless drake. 7. Because of hunger, the barley field began to look lifeless. One evening, grandma tremblingly carried back a bag of rice, which she had exchanged for her last gold ring. 8. The grain ship finally arrived...

Feelings: suffering and warmth!

Chapter 8: Paper Lanterns

1. The most difficult period of hunger has passed, but grandma is sick. Sunflowers and bronze make cotton clothes and trousers. 2. Lao Niu from the Bronze family also fell down. Those days with Lao Niu were so beautiful. 3. The whole family is worried about grandma’s hospitalization expenses. Sunflower loves going to school so much, but it makes her feel uncomfortable to think that she is the only one at home having nothing to do. She deliberately failed the exam and wanted to give up her studies, but her brother found out. However, she did not expect the family's reaction to be so excited. Her grandmother dragged her sick body to the school to beg the principal in person. 4. Sunflower still thought of his own way. After he asked someone to pass a note to his brother, he quietly followed the boat to pick up ginkgo to make money. 5. The note was given to the wrong person, and the family lost contact with Sunflower and was very worried. After searching everywhere, and finally following the clues, I found out that Sunflower went to Jiangnan to pick up ginkgo, so at the bridge, there was a child waiting there every night with a paper lantern. This story warmed all the people in Yau Ma Tei. 6. Sunflower went on a long journey without bringing anything, but she gained a lot of warmth along the way. What was even more warm was that before the boat approached the dock, she saw her own paper lantern in the distance. After she shouted for a while, the paper lantern The lantern began to sway, and it came quickly from the bridge to the pier. It was the figure of Bronze who was afraid of the sunflowers coming back at night, and who was afraid of walking alone at night, and kept waiting every day. 7. Grandma passed away the day after Sunflower came back. Grandma had been insisting on waiting for her granddaughter to return.

Feeling: How warm a family is!

Chapter 9: Haystack

1. In autumn, I heard that Sunflower was going to be taken into the city. Both the Bronze family and Sunflower were very scared. 2. Autumn is coming to an end and the Bronze family has just relaxed. Five people came from the city and approached the village chief and said they would come to pick up Sunflower. Everyone in the village spoke for the Bronze family. 3. After the Chinese New Year, the news became tense again. The mayor paid special attention to this matter and asked the people below to get it done because he saw the bronze sunflower sculpture of Father Sunflower in the square. Bronze and Sunflower hid, and Gayu became their sentinel. 4. Several aunts who had sent Sunflower to Damaidi Village for adoption also came. Day by day, Sunflower’s father and mother were finally persuaded.

5. On the day before Sunflower left, mom and dad took the bronze to grandma’s house, and the big boat carried Sunflower out of the barley field. 6. From then on, there was a lonely figure on the top of the big haystack in the barley field. He kept looking at the place where the sunflowers left. Until one day, he saw the sunflowers running towards him under the water curtain, and he shouted loudly. : "Sunflower..."

Postscript: This book is an interpretation of poverty and suffering. The works for children do not necessarily have to be happy works. They can be works that bring pleasure, and they include happy works. The pleasure of coming and the pleasure of suffering are just like Andersen's works...

Reading experience:

The whole book can be summarized into three parts: Bronze (Family) vs. Sunflower love; grandma’s love for sunflower (family); sunflower’s love for her family. In those years of poverty and suffering, the love of this family was so strong that it could not be melted away!

Cao Wenxuan has a poetic language and is particularly good at writing about rain, rivers, and rural life in the reeds. Yau Ma Tei, Damai Field, and Daohuadu are the places where each story takes place. Cao Wenxuan's description of the environment is particularly detailed. I feel that such a work cannot be created solely by relying on memories and imagination. The author should not only have such a life experience, but also have the habit of recording life. There are many praises for Cao Wenxuan's writing style, but some people think that the traces of his creation are too heavy, and there are few sensational and heart-warming places.

And whether I read "Thatched Cottage" or "Bronze Sunflower", the rural life in the book still brought back many memories of my childhood. Not only the rural environment, but also the poor family loving each other, I can't say enough. words, there are scenes of laughter in the house from time to time, and parents who are numb because of borrowing money... Therefore, some words make people feel the simple and natural beauty, while some are reminiscent of sour childhood, and family love Part of it brings back memories, but it always makes people envious. How can the current family care about each other and feel sorry for each other? There were only days when the family was like tenants and the water was just flowing away!

2019.8.30