Introduction to the story in the south of the city
Old Things in the South of the City was a story from Taiwan about the local customs and historical events in the south of Shanghai in the 1930s. From the perspective of the protagonist, Xiao Yingzi, the novel showed the life and culture of the southern part of the city through her memories and descriptions. The main plot of the novel includes: Xiaoying Zi grew up with her family in the south of the city and got to know a group of interesting characters such as Ama, Grandpa, Tangtang and Chayouzi; Later, Xiaoying Zi participated in the revolutionary movement and became an outstanding female soldier, but after the war ended, she felt lost and lost; Later, she returned to the south of the city and met those familiar characters again, but found that they were old and the south of the city was no longer the prosperous city. The novel used the south of the city as the background to describe the social background and people's living conditions of that era. At the same time, it also showed the complexity and variety of human nature. The novel's language was concise, the plot was vivid, the characters were vivid, and the strong emotional resonance was praised as one of Jiang Yun's representative works.
