The hometown is really small, and the small one can only hold the next two words.

This is a short poem in Mr. Fok Yaowen's recent short story "Where is My Home Under the Lion Rock", some people may ask that this is just a sentence, how can it be counted as a poem?

In fact, whether it is ancient or modern, there are many short poems of one or two sentences, and it is often such a simple and unpretentious short poem, but it can resonate with most people. Mr. Huo's short poem, at first glance, I can't help but be surprised, but after a closer look, it is a great article.

Hometown, everyone has their own hometown, is Tiannan or Haibei, the subtlety of this short poem is that everyone who reads this short poem has their own feelings, because everyone's feelings and insights about their hometown are different. - "Ming Pao" Cen Tongfang

"When I first heard this short poem, I couldn't help but burst into tears, it was a longing for my hometown, it was a longing for home! Everything that had once been blurred can only be seen from afar, but there is no way to go back. - "Ta Kung Pao" Cao Juren

"Are you lonely? What is loneliness? The word loneliness is taken apart, there are children, melons, fruits, butterflies and dogs, which are enough to support a midsummer evening; under the children's melon and willow sheds, the thin dogs chase butterflies in the narrow alleys, the world is prosperous and laughing, only I have two sideburns to spare; melon and fruit children and butterflies are of course lively, but they have nothing to do with you, this is called loneliness. 】

This is an excerpt from Mr. Huo Yaowen's short story "Where is My Home Under the Lion Rock", at first glance it is about what loneliness means, but in fact, if you read it carefully, you can find that it is about homesickness.

In the short story "Where Is My Home", the male protagonist Ah Shui yearns for the prosperity of the big city wholeheartedly, but he is extremely disgusted with the family and countryside under the Lion Rock, and he tries his best to enter the bustling city and begins a decades-long effort.

Some people may think that this is a story that teaches everyone to work hard, but in my opinion, in the process of hard work, a lot is often lost by mistake. In the book, after Ah Shui became famous, he lost his parents, lost his home, and lost his hometown under the Lion Rock, perhaps this is the price of growing up.

I can't help but sigh, what a beautiful hometown it is, carrying the joy of our youth and our love for the fields... Carrying all of us. ——Xu Jie, "Xinmin Daily".

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Hong Kong is prosperous in the eyes of most people, but at this time there is still an indispensable place of villages, and when the article "Where is My Home" written by Fok Yaowen was published in a youth book magazine, it caused a huge response in just a few days.

It may be difficult for those students to understand the meaning of this short essay, but the young people who have just entered society, those who have been baptized by the years, and the old people who are gradually running out of oil can read different feelings and meanings from it.

I don't know if I was prepared for it, after "Ming Pao" and other short stories came out, as soon as the unknown writer Cen Tongfang came out to praise Huo Yaowen's short poem.

The president of the Chinese Society, who had a great conversation with Huo Yaowen last year, also asked Mr. Cao Juren to write an article based on this poem for publication. As the leader of the leftist newspapers, Ta Kung Pao has Cao Juren, a literary writer who has been famous for a long time, and has attracted the attention of many people.

Among them, the first to speak out is also the long-famous, current head of the Chinese Department of Baptist College, Professor Xu Jiao, as a writer who has become famous in the mainland in the thirties, left his hometown for twenty or thirty years, and is extremely impressed by this short article, especially the four-sentence poem in the article: under the childish melon willow shed, the thin dog chasing the butterfly narrow alley, the world is prosperous and laughing, but I have two spare sideburns, and I like it even more.

With these two big seniors in the literary world taking the lead in speaking out their praises, newspapers, magazines and other media changed the previous run, as if what happened a few days ago did not happen at all, followed by countless praises, all of which seemed to be free of money, and waved overwhelmingly.

"The representative of the new generation of Hong Kong literature: Fok Yiu-man!"

"Ten thousand people cry, where is my home!"

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With so much praise, in addition to the suspicion of small newspapers following the trend, more people do like the short story "Where is My Home" very much. To put it bluntly, this is almost a vivid description of the changes and development of Hong Kong society in the past 20 years since the end of the war.

Once upon a time, Hong Kong was just a small fishing port, and in addition to the fishermen, there were more villagers who farmed the mountain fields, lived here, cultivated here, and grew here.

In the 20 years after the war, Hong Kong developed rapidly due to its natural port and excellent geographical location, transforming from a poor and dilapidated island city into a prosperous modern metropolis.

This kind of rapid change has made some old-fashioned old people very uncomfortable, even young people as old as Huo Yaowen are a little unfamiliar with the increasingly prosperous Hong Kong Island.

Therefore, when Huo Yaowen's "Where Is My Home" was published, in addition to the local literati and citizens of Hong Kong, many writers from the south wept and wept when they read the literary metaphors, and they all saw a little bit of their own shadow from Ah Shui, who wanted to enter the big city and was finally alone, which was a lonely and wandering feeling of losing his roots.

In particular, Huo Yaowen's short poem "Hometown is so small, and the small one can only hold the next two words", which suddenly aroused their nostalgia for their hometown and homeland.

Just like the phenomenal movie "A Boat in the Ocean" a few years later, Zheng Fengxi, a disabled person from a poor background in the film, was moved by countless viewers by his turbulent life and difficult life process.

In the short article "Where is My Home", with the consent of Huo Yaowen, it was reprinted in many major newspapers, which made many readers who read the article feel the same way.

As the "grandmaster of Hong Kong literature" in the future, Liu Yifang also wrote in the newspaper: "Hometown has been the favorite subject of literati since ancient times, and countless wonderful articles and poems have been born, such as Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty who raised his head to look at the bright moon and bowed his head to think of his hometown, and Wang Wei's solitary stranger in a foreign land, and he missed his relatives every festive season...... Wait a minute.

To this day, hometown is still a classic and enduring theme that literati are unwilling to give up and cannot forget. The day before yesterday, I read a short poem written by Mr. Huo Yaowen in the newspaper, just two sentences, only a dozen words, but it is full of longing for my hometown, and the sincere yearning for my hometown, which makes me empathize and cry like rain.

This reminds me of what Mr. Fok Yaowen said in the newspaper last year: Parents are here, and there is still a place in life. When parents go, life may only be the way back.

Combining the two, it is not difficult to see that Mr. Huo Yaowen is so grateful and misses his parents and hometown. ”

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