Border Town is a novella created by Shen Congwen, first published on 1934. Shen Congwen (190265438+February 28th-1988May 10), male, formerly known as Shen Yuehuan, whose real name is Maolin, pen name is Chongwen, a native of Fenghuang County, Hunan Province, a famous writer and writer in China. 14 years old, joined the team and roamed the Hunan-Sichuan-Guizhou border region. From 65438 to 0924, he began to create literature, and wrote and published novels such as Long River and Border Town.
193 1- 1933 taught at national Qingdao university, went to teach at national The National SouthWest Associated University after the outbreak of the anti-Japanese war, and 1946 returned to teach at Peking university. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he worked in the Museum of Chinese History and the Institute of History of China Academy of Social Sciences, mainly engaged in the study of China's ancient history and cultural relics, and wrote The Study of Chinese Ancient Costume.
1May 1988 10 died in Beijing at the age of 86. There are two main types of novels created by Shen Congwen. One is about life in western Hunan, and the other is about city life. The former praises the beauty of human nature by describing the primitive and natural life form of Xiangxi people. The latter reveals the loss of urban natural humanity through the corruption of urban life. The rural world in his works shows the overall pattern of opposition and mutual participation with the urban society, while the upper class under the urban theme is "the distortion of human nature"
He appeared in the candlelight of the ideal life of "harmony between man and nature". It is his unique philosophical speculation on the value scale and connotation that has built a bridge between urban life and the rural world under Shen Congwen's pen. It is precisely because of the criticism of "modern literature" with money as the core and the pursuit of ideal romanticism that Shen Congwen wrote such an ideal song of life as Border Town.
The main content of Border Town
Based on the tea cave in the border town of Sichuan and Hunan in the 1930s, the novel depicts the unique amorous feelings of Xiangxi with the beautiful brushwork of lyric poetry and prose. The pure love story of Cui Cui, a boatman girl, shows the goodness and beauty of human nature. Due to the aesthetic art of Border Town, the novel Border Town has a unique position in the history of modern literature in China.
Border Town has entrusted Shen Congwen's aesthetic ideals of "beauty" and "love", and it is the novel that can best express the beauty of human nature in his works. "Border Town" eulogizes the virtues preserved to this day in traditional culture, compared with the destroyed traditional virtues in modern society. As far as the shallow, vulgar and corrupt reality of materialism and monetarism is concerned. Xiangxi described in Border Town has beautiful natural scenery and simple folk customs. People don't talk about rank or utility. People treat each other sincerely and love each other.