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Children read prose

The children are in the first grade and have begun to practice writing essays. I think that letting children write things according to the formula of the routine from an early age is too deliberate, and it really becomes a "composition" text, so sometimes I will read her some famous prose, so that she can experience that writing an article needs to truly express her inner feelings. Moreover, these masters are very interesting people, and their prose is a pleasure to read.

Once, I read to her an article in Liang Shiqiu's "Yashe Talks About Eating" "Slipping Yellow Cabbage". Yellow cabbage is the old Beijinger's name for egg yolk, because the words "chicken" and "egg" are not very elegant, so they gave it another name. The yellow cabbage is to beat the egg yolks, put in the diced water chestnuts, minced ham or something, fry them in lard into a paste, and spoon them up to eat.

The child listened and said: "The egg yolk is called yellow cabbage, what is the egg white called, cabbage?" ”

I really can't answer this question [what]