Niu Niu is an orphan. Her adoptive parents picked her up under the wall of Qihuamen six years ago. The adoptive father asked the girl to learn to sing opera to support her family. If a girl shows pain and fatigue, or sings on the bridge without making money, she will leave a bruised scar. On the day Xiaoying got wet and had a fever, Xiuzhen sneaked away with the girl, saying that she was going to Fujian to find her father.

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Old Things in the South of the City is the representative work of Lin, a female writer in Taiwan Province Province. This work tells the story of Eiko's childhood through her childish eyes, reflecting the author's nostalgia for childhood and the south of Beijing. This work was adapted into a film of the same name on 1983, directed by Wu.

"Old Things in the South of the City" was written by Lin in the background of his life from the age of 7 to 13. During the Japanese imperialist occupation of Taiwan Province, the Lins refused to live under the iron heel of the Japanese invaders and moved to Beijing where Xiaoying grew up. Seeing the camel team coming in winter and hearing the slow and sweet bell, childhood returned to the author's mind.

Summer passed, autumn passed, winter came again, camel team came again, but childhood never came back. Because the author misses the scenery and people when he lived in the south of Beijing as a child, he wrote it down, so that the actual childhood passed and the childhood of the soul will last forever. This is the original intention of Lin in writing this novel.

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Baidu encyclopedia-south of the city