我的童年像大名鼎鼎的中国作家鲁迅在《朝花夕拾》写的那样，“童年是一条河，荡漾着美好的回忆；童年是一幅画，描绘多彩的生活；童年是一首歌，欢唱难忘的幸福。噢，美好的童年！”
窗外淅淅沥沥地下着雨，窗内一个失意的我正在练习着与她心情格格不入的贝多芬写的钢琴曲–《欢乐颂》。下一秒，突然间倾盘大雨起来了，我终于因为沉淀了好长时间的难过而忍不住哭了。因为这次的英语考试把我弄得很不开心，而我又总是在学习上喜欢争强好胜。从此，我总是认认真真地预习，全神贯注地听着每一节课，坚持不懈地做每天的功课。考完三年级的期末考，我才亲身体会到“一分耕耘，一分收获“的道理。因为我不但英语单科成绩全班第一名，而且语文、数学和英语总分也是全班第一名。当我从容不迫地走上讲台领奖状的时候，听着同学们热烈的掌声，从老师的手里接过那一张张令我满意的奖状，心像是喝了蜜一样地高兴着。自这一刻起，我变得更加热爱学习。日复一日，年复一年，我觉得学习会给我带来一种快乐。这不仅仅是因为获得奖状和别人的掌声让我感到快乐，而是因为我每一次同完课后都学习到了新的知识，对这个世界有了新的认知而得到的快乐。在这些不断学习的日子里，我也不断地创造着我童年美好的回忆。
为了汲取更多的知识，我便喜欢上了阅读。记得我阅读完海伦·凯勒写的《假如给我三天光明》，我学会了珍惜自己健全的身体、与不断生活中的困难作斗争、感谢父母对的爱给我的生活带来的影响和如何在逆境中成长等等。当我阅读到曹雪芹的《红楼梦》里黛玉葬花的时候，被她感人肺腑的葬花诗句而深深地打动了。黛玉在大观园里看过花开花落的过程，然后联想到自己的身世才做了一首诗叫《葬花吟》。我最喜欢的两句是：“花谢花飞花满天，红消香断有谁怜？”和“一年三百六十日，风刀霜剑严相逼。”看到第一句，我被黛玉的才华横溢所折服了，也让我为这部文学作品中的女人们的各种悲惨命运而感到伤感和怜惜。当我读到《葬花吟》的第二句，我感受到她在贾家寄人篱下的生活的难过，这苦日子正在一天一天地摧残着她这朵花。她的《葬花吟》让我觉得有她具备着刘禹锡，“可以调素琴，阅金经”的高尚情操。我觉得是这首诗让我认识了更全面的黛玉。而《活着》这本书虽然有一些沉重，但是让我懂得了每个人的活法都不一样，存在着不一样的意义，也让我赋予了我活着的意义。正是这些阅读，让我体会到了童年生活的丰富多
彩。
再说，我的童年回忆充满了歌声。因为我喜欢聆听各种各样的歌曲并学会如何唱歌，感受它们给我童年生活带来不一样的享受。例如：我上音乐课学习的第一首歌曲《春天在哪里》让我感受到春天的美丽，学会善于从观察生活中，发现这其中的美。歌曲《让我们荡起双桨》，不仅让我感受到这歌词中描写的北海秀丽的风光，更让我体会到孩子们划船愉悦的心情，以及对国家的感激之情。还有就是在学习唱《茉莉花》的过程中，我既学会了热爱大自然的美，又学会了如何热爱生活。全是这些歌曲，使我体会到这幸福的生活。
我的童年，多么美好！这些由学习、阅读和唱歌组成的点点滴滴的童年回忆，让我每每想起，都恋恋不舍。童年像是一道彩虹，使我的脑海中充满了五颜六色的回忆；童年像是太阳，使我的人生充满温暖；童年像是天上的繁星，使我的人生更加闪耀。
Translation
My childhood is like the famous Chinese writer Lu Xun wrote in Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk, “Childhood is a river, rippling with beautiful memories; childhood is a painting, depicting colorful life; childhood is a song, joyously singing of unforgettable happiness. Oh, sweet childhood!”
Outside the window, the rain fell gently, while inside, a frustrated me practiced Beethoven’s piano “Ode to Joy”, which was completely out of tune with my mood. The next second, suddenly, it began pouring rain, and I finally couldn’t help crying because of the sadness that had been accumulating for a long time. Because this English test made me very unhappy, and I always like to be competitive in my studies. From then on, I always previewed carefully, listened to each lesson with rapt attention, and persisted in doing my homework every day. After the final exam of the third year, I realized the truth of “no pain, no gain”. I was not only top of my English class, but also ranked first in my year in Chinese, mathematics and English. When I walked calmly up to the podium to receive the awards, listening to the warm applause from the students, and receiving the satisfying certificates from the teacher one after another, my heart was as happy as drinking honey. From this moment on, I became more passionate about learning. Day after day, year after year, I felt that learning would bring me a kind of happiness. This was not only because I enjoyed receiving awards and applause from others, but also because, with each class, I learned new knowledge and gained new understanding of the world. During these days of continuous learning, I was also constantly creating good childhood memories.
In order to acquire more knowledge, I fell in love with reading. I remember, after reading If You Give Me Three Days of Light by Helen Keller, I learned to cherish my healthy body, fight against constant difficulties in life, and thank my parents for their influence on my life. And also how to grow in adversity and so on. When I read about Daiyu burying flowers in Cao Xueqin’s Dream of the Red Chamber, I was deeply moved by her touching poems about burying flowers. Daiyu watched the process of flowers blooming and falling in the Grand View Garden, and then thought of her own life experience and wrote a poem called “The Song of Burying Flowers”. Two of my favorite lines are: “Flowers wither, flowers fly, and the sky is full of flowers, who will have pity when the red disappears?” and “Three hundred and sixty days a year, wind, knife, frost, and sword are fierce.” I was impressed by Daiyu’s brilliance, and it
also made me feel sadness and pity for the tragic fate of the women in this literary work. The second sentence made me feel the sadness of her life under the Jia’s family’s roof. Like a flower, these hard times are slowly destroying her day by day. Her “Burrying Flowers” made me feel that she has the noble sentiment of Liu Yuxi who “can tune the plain qin and read the golden scriptures”. I think this poem made me understand Daiyu more comprehensively. Although the book “To Live” is a bit heavy, it made me understand that everyone lives in their own way and has their own meaning of life, and helped me find new meaning in my own existence. It was through these readings that I came to appreciate how colorful my childhood life was.
In the end, my childhood memories are filled with songs and singing. Because I like to listen to all kinds of songs and learn how to sing, I feel they brought a different kind of enjoyment to my childhood life. For example: The first song I learned called “Where is Spring”, which I learned in music class, helped me feel the beauty of spring, and taught me to be adept at observing life and discovering it’s beauty. The song “Let’s Swing Our Oars” not only made me feel the beautiful scenery of the North Sea described in the lyrics, but also made me feel the joy of the children rowing and their gratitude toward the country. Also, in the process of learning to sing “Jasmine”, I not only learned to love the beauty of nature, but also learned how to love life. All these songs make me realize all the happiness in my life.
How wonderful my childhood was! These fragments of childhood memories composed of learning, reading and singing make me nostalgic every time I think of them. Childhood is like a rainbow, filling me with colorful memories; childhood is like the sun, filling my life with warmth; childhood is like stars in the sky, filling my life with its shining light.
Rose Snyder
Rose is a senior at WWU Graduating from the Chinese Language Program in 2023.
