Song Ma's husband, a lazy gambler, went to Lin Yingzi's house to be a wet nurse after Song Ma gave birth to a pair of children. Her husband gave away her daughter, and her son was said to have fallen into the river and drowned. It was several years before Song Ma realized that Song Ma had been making new clothes for her son, Xiao Shuan, and taking new shoes home. A few years later, Song Ma went home with her husband on a snowy day.
Snowballing usury, also called bean flour 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 yellow bean, just like the bursts of loess raised by wild donkeys in the countryside when they roll around, so it is named snowballing.
It is also one of the chapters of "Old Things in the South of the City"-"Rolling on a Donkey". This book was written by Lin Haiyin, a famous Taiwan Province woman writer.
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"Old Things in the South of the City" was written by Lin Haiyin with his life at the age of 7 to 13 as the background. During the occupation of Taiwan Province by Japanese imperialism, the Lin Haiyin family refused to live under the Japanese aggressors' iron hoof and moved to Beijing, where Xiaoying grew up. Seeing the camel team coming under the winter sun and hearing the slow and pleasant bell, childhood came back to the author's mind.
Summer passed, autumn passed, winter came again, and the camel team came again, but childhood never returned. Because the author missed the scenery and characters when he lived in the south of Beijing as a child, he wrote them down, so that the actual childhood passed and the childhood of the soul survived forever. This is the original intention of Lin Haiyin in writing this novel.
"Old Things in the South of the City" traces the old things in the south of Beijing in the 1920s and 1930s with deep feelings and brushstrokes. The narrative structure consists of two layers, the surface structure is beaded, and the five stories of Xiaoying's childhood experience are brought together with the growth as the 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.
With the combination and complementarity of the internal and external structures, 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, which shows its multi-level emotional color in a natural and traceless way. It is a pure prose film with strong civilian consciousness; A euphemistic poetry, a quiet artistic conception; Almost an elegant, indifferent and simple China ink painting; Full of human fireworks, but not half of fame and fortune.