The main idea of "Lilies": it takes the front-line packing house in a certain place as the specific environment during the liberation war, tells about the sincere friendship between people during the war years, praises the ordinary but noble character of the little soldier, expresses the author's aesthetic feeling, and expresses the return of the human nature and the call for truth, goodness and beauty.

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The mid-autumn of 1946.

On this day the troops fighting the coast decided to make a general attack at night. A few comrades from the creative writing room of our literary troupe were assigned by the chief of the main attacking regiment to help out in each fighting company. Probably because I was a female comrade! The head of the regiment scratched the back of my head half a dozen times before he finally asked a correspondent to send me to the front-line bandages.

"Lilies" is a short story written by Ru Zhijuan, first published in Yanhe, No. 3, 1958. Set against the backdrop of the liberation war, the novel depicts the mid-autumn night in 1946, before the troops launched the general attack, the small correspondent sent the female warrior of the Civilian Workers' Troupe, "I", to the frontline barracks, and the short story of borrowing a quilt from a new daughter-in-law, who had just been married for three days after they arrived at the barracks, which expresses the sublime and pure interpersonal relations in the war era, and praises the beauty of human nature and the beauty of human kindness. The beauty of human nature and the beauty of human feelings, praising the ordinary and noble character of the little soldier.