In the early days of the ROC, the writer Zhu Ziqing painted a portrait of his father seeing him off at the train station in his essay "My Father's Back." Before the train departs, his father hurries to buy some oranges for him to eat on his journey. In his rush to get across the platform, his father spills the oranges over the ground.
民國初期作家朱自清的散文＜背影＞，刻畫他的父親去火車站為他送行時，趕著在火車開走前買了些橘子，要讓他帶在車上吃，卻在過月台時慌忙中散落一地，而低身撿拾橘子的笨重、蹣跚背影。