来自山西大槐树的传说，其背景是国家掌握了开发陕北的控制权。

According to the legend of the big pagoda tree in Shanxi province, its background was that the country had the control of developing the north of Shaanxi province.

每从他家门首走过，看见他同他母亲坐在那棵古干浓阴的大槐树的底下，他每每在母亲的怀中唱小公鸡的儿歌与我听。

Whenever I passed his door I saw him sitting on his mother's lap beneath the big shady old elm tree. He always sang me his song about the little rooster.