Border Town is an excellent novella by Shen Congwen.

1. Border Town depicts a magnificent and warm world of Border Town, a paradise full of love, beauty and humanity.

1, the human nature here is true, kind and beautiful. Everyone works hard and contributes to others. If the old boatman is loyal to his duties and doesn't accept a penny from Jiangren, it is really difficult to buy rock tea to entertain the villagers. Although the boatman Shunshun is a rich man, he often sympathizes with the poor. After the old boatman died, he paid for the funeral. Businessmen and prostitutes are sincere, showing a kind and simple rural style. Coupled with the beautiful natural environment, it is like a picturesque paradise.

2. It is a love tragedy that focuses on the beauty of human nature in the world of Border Town, and this story is also based on human nature thinking. The boatman's two sons, Tianbao and Nuosong, fell in love with Cui Cui, the granddaughter of the old boatman, while Cui Cui fell in love with Nuosong. Tianbao failed to propose marriage. Disappointed, he sailed out to sea and drowned. After the death of the eldest son, the boatman once disagreed with Nuosong's request to marry Cui Cui, which led Nuosong to quarrel with his father and leave his hometown. All these "misfortunes" make the love with promise finally become a "good" tragedy. Natural forest protection and Northrop launched a free competition with Cui Cui, without hurting the feelings of compatriots. What the author shows seems to be a tragedy of "no one is wrong".

Second, a strong sense of tragedy

The love tragedy with Cui Cui as the central figure is not entirely a "nobody is wrong" tragedy. The opposition and contradiction between the marriage customs of Miao and Han nationality is the fundamental cause of the tragedy. The marriage custom of Miao nationality is that young men and women can freely fall in love and get married. It is the custom of Miao people to send proposals by "Tao". He believes that singing folk songs can make Cui Cui understand. The so-called "car road" is the concept of marriage customs of the Han nationality. This concept is expressed in his works by Tianbao and his father. Due to the conflict between the two marriage customs, Cui Cui in love separated from Nuo.

Third, understand the greatness of this nation in the past and the degeneration of the present. The author regards the story of a couple's free love as a tragedy, which causes readers to think deeply about the destruction of "beauty"

Tea cave area has lived a primitive and free pastoral life in history. In the 1920s, the Kuomintang ruled in darkness. The inhumanity of real life, inspired by the devastated reality, called for the return of a free and beautiful rural society and criticized the feudal patriarchal society in Xiangxi at that time. This criticism based on human nature and humanitarianism is unique, idealistic and powerless.

Border Town has a distinct and unique personality in artistic expression.

1. The author is good at combining the characters' language, action description and psychological description to reveal their personality characteristics and rich inner world.

For example, in the description of Cui Cui, the author observed and thought about various modes of adolescent sexual psychology, and highlighted their shy and gentle character through heavy external description and subtle psychological description.

The structure of this novel is rigorous and sparse. The whole article revolves around Cui Cui's love story, and the plot is concentrated and simple. The works take Nuosong and Tianbao's love for each other and Cui Cui as the latitude, and the old boatman's concern and matchmaking for his granddaughter's marriage as the latitude, which promotes the story to develop rhythmically. Cui Cui's love entanglement with Nuosong and Tianbao is an open line, and the hidden line is that Wang Tuan has always wanted to send Nuosong as a son-in-law. The interweaving of warp and weft and the combination of light and shade perfectly combine the simplicity and complexity of the plot.

3. In the development of the story, the author deliberately interspersed with descriptions of Miao customs such as singing, marriage proposal and dragon boat race. In particular, the description of the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival shows the natural environment and humanistic environment of Border Town, which is not only a poetic revelation of the rural nature of Border Town, but also a confusing poetic contrast.

4. The artistic style of Border Town is a lyric poem and a romantic pastoral.

The love story between Cui Cui and Nuo Song becomes the carrier of poetry, and lyricism is the "skill" and purpose of the novel. At the end of the author's narrative, the author's poetic eulogy and singing about "love" and "beauty" poured down. The author also pursues poetic expression in art, and explores Cui Cui's rich "subtext" with the sketch and charm of action and dialogue; In the plot structure, the inner emotional rhythm is set off by the interweaving of latitude and longitude and the combination of light and shade; In the description of local conditions and customs, the activities of characters are placed on a picture of local conditions and customs, forming a poetic artistic conception.

The stories in Border Town are basically based on dreams. It is a romantic creative method, half of which is a "dream" and half is an ideal "reality", not a portrait of the society at that time. Characters and stories are detachment and transcendence of social reality at that time. The author consciously dispels all kinds of opposing factors in the world of Border Town. The ending of the work is relatively peaceful, not desperate, and the ending is romantic with an idyllic aftertaste.