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Poems on Objects

Rating 2.6
Word count
115K words
Chapters
69
ISBN
9787520517249

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Summary

This book selects over 50 essays on objects by masters such as Lu Xun, Zhu Ziqing, Zhou Zuoren, and Xu Dishan. The objects written about include animals, plants, and food, with rich content. Most selected pieces are accessible and easy to read aloud, convenient for primary and middle school students to memorize and study, greatly benefiting their writing level and enriching their reading volume.

Editor's review

This is an essay anthology organized around "objects," gathering over fifty pieces by masters such as Lu Xun, Zhu Ziqing, Zhou Zuoren, and Xu Dishan, covering animals, plants, and food. Aimed at primary and middle school students, the selections are mostly accessible, easy to read aloud, and moderate in length—effortless to read, yet revealing the writers' temperament and craft in ordinary things. Its value lies not in profound literary analysis but in offering a set of model texts to imitate and memorize: how to capture the manner of a cat or dog, how to lodge feeling in grass and trees, how to engage the senses when writing about food—all find examples here. For students who feel they have nothing to write about, this book is a small material library; for readers wanting to cultivate language sense, repeated recitation is more effective than broad reading. Suitable as supplementary extracurricular reading and as extension material for group-text reading in Chinese class.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • Primary and middle school students needing to accumulate writing material and improve descriptive ability
  • Chinese language learners wanting to cultivate language sense through reciting master essays
  • General readers who enjoy short essays and prefer light reading
  • Chinese teachers seeking object-essay texts for group-text reading lesson preparation

Not a good fit for

  • Readers hoping for systematic literary theory or in-depth appreciation
  • Those who prefer long stories and have little interest in the essay genre
  • Readers seeking contemporary new work or uncomfortable with Republican-era masters' style

Reading tips

  1. Circle key verbs and adjectives describing objects in each piece and build your own vocabulary notebook.
  2. Choose favorite pieces, read them aloud twice to feel rhythm and tone, then try imitating a paragraph.
  3. Read in groups by animals, plants, and food, comparing how different writers approach similar objects.
  4. After reading, pick a common object around you and write a short 300-character piece using the techniques learned.

About the publisher

China Culture and History Press China · Founded in 1980

China Culture and History Press has long devoted itself to modern and contemporary literature and culture-and-history reading matter, with publishing directions centered on classic works, social novels, prose and miscellaneous writings, and Eastern philosophy, alongside culture-and-history periodicals such as Zongheng. Among the more than 1,500 titles in the collection, representative books include Zhang Henshui's Ti Xiao Yin Yuan, Lu Xun's Complete Classic Works (10 volumes) and Wild Grass, and Lao She's Four Generations Under One Roof series and the boxed set of Lao She's Classic Works (10 volumes), while its author resources are concentrated on figures such as Zhang Henshui, Lu Xun, Lao She and Sima Qian. Its publishing character lies in solid editorial work on culture-and-history source texts and in issuing famous authors' works in sets, balancing the readability of individual texts with the systematic presentation of complete collections for focused reading and collecting. Beyond these directions, public information on the press's contemporary original publishing is limited, so it is not elaborated here.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 丛书简介
  3. 樱花赞
  4. 四君子
  5. 老柏与野蔷薇
  6. 菊颂
  7. 花草的生长
  8. 百合花
  9. 无花果树
  10. 秃的梧桐
  11. 松树的风格
  12. 快阁的紫藤花
  13. 荔枝蜜
  14. 香山红叶
  15. 牵牛
  16. 看花
  17. 好一朵木槿花
  18. 莲花
  19. 观莲拙政园
  20. 赏菊狮子林
  21. 白果树
  22. 两株树
  23. 红叶
  24. 阿咪
  25. 蝉
  26. 蝉与纺织娘
  27. 刺猬
  28. 海燕
  29. 狐狸
  30. 金鱼
  31. 马
  32. 猫
  33. 杜鹃
  34. 猫的早餐
  35. 螟蛉虫
  36. 母鸡
  37. 鸟
  38. 鸟声
  39. 驮马
  40. 蟋蟀之话
  41. 小麻雀
  42. 我和祖母养的八哥
  43. 蟋蟀
  44. 鹰之歌
  45. 萤火虫
  46. 鹈鹕与鱼
  47. 雉
  48. 吴组缃先生的猪
  49. 白鹅
  50. 鹤
  51. 父亲的玳瑁
  52. 山核桃
  53. 落花生
  54. 故乡的野菜
  55. 辣椒
  56. 豆腐
  57. 菜花
  58. 烟卷
  59. 大酒缸
  60. 短旗袍
  61. 我藏书的小楼
  62. 领带
  63. 风筝
  64. 窗
  65. 记一辆纺车
  66. 钢铁假山
  67. 陶然亭的雪
  68. 陶然亭
  69. 书

FAQ

Are all the pieces in this book by Republican-era writers?
According to the materials, the selected authors are masters such as Lu Xun, Zhu Ziqing, Zhou Zuoren, and Xu Dishan, mostly classic writers in modern literary history with a Republican-era style, but the chosen pieces are accessible and pose little difficulty for primary and middle school students.
What grade level is it suitable for?
The selections are easy to read aloud and not long; upper-grade elementary students can read them with guidance, while middle school students are better suited to read independently. For younger students, parents or teachers should read along to help with occasional old-fashioned expressions.
Can reading this book directly raise composition scores?
It offers model texts and material, not exam templates. Persistent recitation and imitation can improve descriptive ability and language sense, but practice is needed to translate this into writing level; do not expect quick results.

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About the author

Lao She Author · China · 1899–1966

Lao She, born Shu Qingchun with the courtesy name Sheyu, lived from 1899 to 1966. A Manchu from Beijing, he is a major modern Chinese writer. His writing long centered on urban life in Beijing and on ordinary people at the lower levels of society. His works are mostly social novels and folk literature, and he also wrote essays and miscellaneous prose. His style is plain yet marked by irony and compassion, and he was skilled at using colloquial Beijing-flavored language to portray characters and their fates. His representative works include Camel Xiangzi, Four Generations Under One Roof, and Teahouse, which have had wide influence. In 1951 he received the title "People's Artist." The library holds 488 of his works, commonly classified under social fiction, classics, folk literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, and exam books, showing that his writing continues to circulate among readers and in teaching.

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