What is Bingxin s Little Orange Lantern about?

1. Main content.

The story of "Little Orange Lantern" takes place in 1945, when the Anti-Japanese War is coming to an end and the Kuomintang.

However, the White Terror was intensified, and the capital Chongqing was even more foggy and foggy, and black clouds overwhelmed the city, and people who had lived in war and chaos and darkness for a long time were full of infinite desire for light. The little girl I met in the suburbs of Chongqing was able to maintain a brave, calm and optimistic spirit despite the hardships of losing her father and mother's illness, and this strong character is really amazing. "Little Orange Lantern" is full of affectionate pen and ink, singing the praises of this optimistic spirit of bravely facing difficulties, and the simplicity and gentleness contain profound meaning and inspiring spiritual power.

2. Introduction to the original text.

Little Orange Lantern is one of the late representative works of writer Bingxin. The essay "Little Orange Lantern", written after the liberation of China (1957), not only inherits the characteristics of her earlier works, but also expresses Bingxin's indictment of the old China and her love for the new China, which injects new and energetic spiritual power into her works.

3. About the author.

Bingxin (, a native of Changle, Fujian, joined the Literary Research Society in 1921. He graduated from the Department of Chinese at Yenching University in 1923, went to the United States to study in the same year, and returned to China in 1926. She has taught at Yenching University, Peking Women's College of Arts and Sciences, and Tsinghua University.

He used to be the third director of the All-China Association of Literary and Art Circles to Resist the Enemy. After 1946, he taught at the University of Tokyo. He returned to China in 1951.

He has successively served as the secretary and adviser of the China Writers Association, the vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the first to the fifth representative of the National People's Congress, the fifth to the seventh member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the second to fourth members of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the first member of the China Writers Association.

The second and third term of the board of directors. He was the honorary chairman of the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy. Since he began to publish his works in 1919, he has written and translated as a collection of essays "Sending Young Readers".

Poetry collection "Spring Water".

The Stars is famous in the history of literature, nurturing generations of young people, and the translated poem "The Collected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore".

Mahendra Poetry Copy" and "Indian Fairy Tale Collection" are famous translations. In addition to the single book, there are three volumes of "Bingxin's Anthology of Translation" and "Bingxin's Anthology".

Six volumes were published. "Empty Nest".

Won the 1980 National Outstanding Short Story ** Award.

I took some oranges to visit a sick woman, and when I came back, the woman's little daughter made a small orange lantern out of half an orange peel, and Bingxin felt the warmth of life in any difficult place through the light of the small orange lamp!

wrote about the tragic experience of the family in the harsh political situation in the Kuomintang region, and the father was arrested for participating in anti-Chiang political activities; The mother is critically ill; The house was ransacked, and only the little girl was left. It tells the story of a family that is revived by the power of love after suffering a devastating blow, reflecting Bingxin's pan-patriotism.

Pai 1, "Little Orange Lantern" tells the story of the author who went to visit friends in the suburbs of Chongqing decades ago. My friend was not there, and the author met a little girl while waiting for a friend, and the little girl's mother was sick, and the author called ** for her to ask for a doctor.

2. Then the author went to visit the little girl's house, bought a few red oranges, the little girl's mother had fallen asleep, and the little girl sensibly said that the doctor replied that tomorrow there would be dust and wild cheats, and sweet potato porridge was their Chinese New Year's Eve meal.

3. There are only two people in the family, the little girl and her mother, the author is leaving, the little girl made a small orange lamp for the author, and encouraged her to be fine in the future!

4. It reflects the difficult situation and desire for light of the revolutionaries under the rule of imperialism and the Kuomintang reactionaries during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1945, and praises their strong, calm, brave and optimistic spirit.