The Back Shadow is a reminiscent essay written by modern writer Zhu Ziqing (1898-1948) in 1925. The prose recounts the author's departure from Nanjing to Beijing University, where his father sent him to Pukou Railway Station, tended to him on the train, and bought oranges for him. The most impressive thing in the author's mind 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 sincere way, presenting his father's care and love from ordinary events. Imitation of the following:

In other articles, I always call him dad, but today, I call him father.?

My father is a worker, just a very ordinary worker, but he is different from other workers, my father loves to work, as if he wants to finish all the work alone. Maybe it was his efforts, my father's position altered, from the beginning of the laborer to shift leader, vice captain, captain.

With the transfer of positions, father's rest time also became shorter, from two days off a week to one day off a week, and then not even one day off a week. When the unit physical examination, father also just fill out the form and hand it in, and did not have time to check it out.?

Father came back from the unit, this time he can take three consecutive days of vacation, these three days of vacation for the father who does not rest one day a week, as long as my summer vacation. I was so happy that I could finally spend a few days with him. Usually he would leave the house before I woke up, and he would only come back after I had already gone to bed, and it had been a long time since I had really seen him in a meaningful way.?

When my father stepped into the house, I realized that he was darker and thinner, the work must have exhausted my father, he saw me and said, "Son, it's always when you go to sleep that I look at you, it turns out that you've grown so much taller this year!" My father's voice was hoarse and not as loud as before. ?

After dinner, my father and I went to play basketball, and on the way I asked him, "Dad, work over there?" I thought for a while, or asked: "over there smooth?" "Smooth ah, you see I'm not very healthy and happy!" Father replied.?

Playing basketball, my father a turn, followed by a jump shot, I saw my father's back behind my father, his back is a bit hunched, but also look a little old. Before I could see it, the setting sun collected the afterglow, perhaps the sunset was also afraid that I was too sad and went away.?

On the way home, an old classmate of my father's walked in front of me, and they talked to each other, and the moonlight opened its heart again and shone its light on my father's back.

"Dad", I usually call him that, but now it seems that my father is indeed old. Once upon a time, his back was straight and he always joked with me with humor.

At this time, the back reflects the dignity of a man, that is the father, he is majestic, heroic, hot blood flying, as my father usually educate me words: "Good men ambition in all directions, son, to fight, to fight!" ?

Father's back has different meanings, but they are all the embodiment of deep fatherly love, and my father's back that day will always be reflected in my mind.

Expanded Information

Background

In 1917, the author's grandmother died, and his father's job as director of the Xuzhou Tobacco and Wine Bureau was relinquished. After the funeral, father and son went to Nanjing together, his father sent the author on the train to the north, the author was 20 years old.

In that particular occasion, as the father of the son's care, consideration, love, so that the son is extremely moved, this impression is long-lasting, and a few years later, remember that back, the father's shadow appeared in the "crystal tears", so that people can not forget. 1925, the author of the world of affairs, they wrote this article.

Impact of the work

This essay reflects, through a different path, the awakening of the most sincere and touching heavenly relationship between people, especially between father and son, when the ice water of the old moral concepts ebbs. In the face of this awakening, for the first time, people take possession and show their feelings as a real person.

This is also the revolutionary historical content and ideological significance embedded in the essay. Its publication not only raised Zhu Ziqing's status in the history of prose, but also made people compete to imitate his sincere, calm and light prose style.