Xu Guangyao, pen name Yue Feng, 1925 was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province in August, and his native place is Xiongxian County, Hebei Province. The work began to be published in 1947. 1953 Join the Chinese Writers Association. Published in 2000, The West Wind Withered Green Trees Last Night won the second Lu Xun Literature Prize.

He is the author of the novel Fire on the Plain, novellas A Little Disaster and 400 Species of Creatures, movie and literary scripts Looking at the Sun Lotus and Zhang Ga, a collection of short stories Looking at the Sun Lotus and Selected Novels by Xu Guangyao, and a collection of essays, The West Wind withered the green trees last night and The River I can't forget.

Textbook analysis

This article is selected from Xu Guangyao's novella Private Zhang Ga. The article selects the contents of the first eight chapters of the novel, but there are great changes, mainly concentrating the contents from the first chapter to the seventh chapter into the first five natural paragraphs, and simply writing the scene of Zhang Ga and his grandmother living alone, and how he became a boy scout after her death.

Starting from the sixth natural paragraph, it focuses on the process of destroying the Japanese devils together with the district captain: luring the enemy into the room, dealing with the Japanese devils skillfully, assisting the soldiers to destroy the Japanese devils, and winning the long-awaited pistol. The story is vivid, gripping, with appropriate details and vivid characters, which depicts a witty and brave young hero for us.