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It was a morning in 1968, the autumn wind was blowing gently, and the summer heat was gone. A 14-year-old boy, Sang Sang, boarded the roof of the tallest building in the middle of the grass house in Yau Ma Tei Primary School. He sat on the roof and Yau Ma Tei Primary School jumped into his eyes for the first time.
The white clouds in autumn, as gentle as floc, are drifting away, and the dead leaves of Indus are falling in the autumn wind. The boy sang sang suddenly felt that he was going to cry, so he sobbed quietly.
Tomorrow morning, before waking up in Yau Ma Tei, a big wooden boat will take him and his home and leave here far away ── he will bid farewell to this golden straw house that accompanies him day and night forever ... The crane and Sang Sang are classmates from grade one to grade six.
This bald crane should be called Lu He, but because he is a complete little bald man, the children in Yau Ma Tei call him Lu He. The small village where the white-headed crane is located is a small village where many maple trees are planted. Every autumn, maple trees are red and very charming. But in this village, there are many bald men.
They walked bareheaded under such a beautiful maple tree, which attracted the teachers of Yau Ma Tei Primary School to stop and watch quietly. Those bald people are under the maple tree, slightly glowing with red light, and occasionally there are gaps when they meet maple leaves. When someone walks there, they will shine like tiles in the sand.
Teachers who put their hands in their trouser pockets or cross their hands on their chests smile at people and don't know what it means. The crane has seen this kind of smile many times. But in Sang Sang's memory, the bald crane didn't seem to care about his baldness until he was in the third grade.
This may be because he is not the only bald person in his village, or because the crane is too young to remember whether he should care about his baldness. The crane has been living a happy life. If someone calls him a bald crane, he will happily agree, as if he was originally called a bald crane, not a land crane.
This article is from Cao Wenxuan's Caotang Modern.
Extended data writing background:
Straw House is a novel by writer Cao Wenxuan, which was first published on 1997. "The Grass House" tells a touching childhood story that happened in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River in the early 1960s. There are no flaws in the pure feelings between boys and girls, the sadness and elegance of unfortunate teenagers fighting against bad luck, the profound and beautiful understanding of life in the experience of death, and the complex and poetic emotional entanglements between adults.
Cao Wenxuan lives in an okawa department. Cao Wenxuan's father has been a primary school principal for decades, and his work has been constantly mobilized. Their home moves with him, but no matter where they move, their home will always stand by and watch the water, because in that area, rivers are inevitable and cross into a network, which is the so-called water network area.
All the families there live by the water, and all the villages are built by the water. There are not a few villages where there is a big river in front of or behind the village, or where a big river flows through the middle of the village and is surrounded by rivers.
Open the door to see water, all water, in the rainy season, it is often white water. People there get along with the water day and night, and many stories take place near the water and the water, where the culture is immersed in the water.
About the author:
Cao Wenxuan, 1954 was born in the rural area of Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province in June. 65438-0974 entered the Chinese Department of Peking University, and now he is a professor of the Chinese Department of Peking University and a doctoral supervisor of modern and contemporary literature.
Member of National Committee of Chinese Writers Association, Vice Chairman of Beijing Writers Association, Director of Contemporary Literature Teaching and Research Section, Member of Children's Literature Committee, Visiting Professor of Lu Xun College of Literature of Chinese Writers Association. China is an active advocate and promoter of juvenile writing.