When Lu Xun's father died, YanTaitai always urged him to call his father's name, encouraged his children to eat ice, encouraged Lu Xun to read pornographic books, encouraged Lu Xun to steal his mother's jewelry, spread rumors, and always looked forward to the children next door doing bad things.
Generally speaking, YanTaitai is a typical bourgeois image of evil, disgusting, selfish and shirking responsibility. But this is all caused by the social environment at that time.
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Although it is a personal life experience and mental journey, it is a memory of relatives and friends, but it goes beyond this, showing the face of China society in a specific historical era and providing rich and detailed documents. This is beyond the reach of ordinary reminiscence prose.
Because these sketches are only familiar with some so-called personal trifles and children's feelings, which are purely personal ups and downs and emotional waves; The protagonist seems to be in a paradise, unable to see the turbulent times and scattered gunfire outside. Some prose works are helpful to understand the mentality of some intellectuals in a certain period.
However, it is difficult to show the overall face of their time, and "Morning Flowers at Night" is different. Because of the author's lofty aspirations and broad mind, this makes the work show the close relationship between expressing personal experience and paying attention to national destiny, which not only shows the author's personal footprint but also shows the traces of a historical era.
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