The article Scarecrow was written by Ye Shengtao, an old man. It mainly talks about an old woman who has a field with a Scarecrow on it. The scarecrow is wholeheartedly chasing the birds pecking at the grain. Scarecrow also experienced many sad things, and finally "died" in the rice field.

The first thing is that the scarecrow saw a gray moth laying many eggs on the ear of rice. These eggs will hatch into many caterpillars and eat all the rice. He tried to get rid of the grey moth, but there was nothing he could do.

The second thing is that he found a fishing boat with a woman and her sick son on board, but the woman was too busy fishing to take care of the children. The child was thirsty and only gave him a sip of river water.

The third thing is that he saw a woman commit suicide because her husband owed money for gambling and wanted to sell her. Although the Scarecrow tried to save her, there was nothing he could do.

Through the thoughts and thoughts of a sympathetic but helpless scarecrow, this fairy tale truly describes the precarious human situation in rural China in the 1920s. Lu Xun said that Ye Shengtao's Scarecrow opened up his own creative path for China's fairy tales.

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Ye Shengtao's later works have merged into the core of realism, showing a faint melancholy lyrical color. His fairy tales aim to inspire children to understand and care about what is happening around them and understand the sadness of adults in real life. The Scarecrow shows children the sufferings and fate of workers and peasants in the 1920s, and its writing style has long been the dominant style of Chinese children's literature creation.

Ye Shengtao's fairy tales have poetic artistic conception, easy-to-understand fairy tale language and nationalization style. Her fairy tale theme and telephone conversation are very ethnic. In the excavation of the theme of fairy tales, the scarecrow embodies a distinctive national color.

In the narrative mode, it is a three-stage and partial repetition. The Scarecrow reflects the general bitterness and hardships of the people at the bottom of society through the unfortunate experiences of the old woman, the fisherman's daughter and the weak woman.

The Scarecrow shows people's sufferings, with gloomy atmosphere, novel and unique conception, delicate and realistic description and full of realistic content.

Judging from the tone of Ye Shengtao's fairy tales, most of them adopt repeated variations commonly used in folk stories. Although his fairy tales contain the inherent fantasy color of fairy tales, most of the details are mainly realistic, and the fantasy in the story is also produced on the basis of realism. Such realism is hard to find in ordinary fairy tales.