People often say, "Think about it day and night." Shen Congwen used their dreams to show their purest images, entrusted their yearning for life, and the transformation of dreams also conveyed the connotation of women's growth. Shen Congwen came to this city with a "Beijing dream" and failed to study. He hit a wall in job hunting and gave in. When he wandered around the street hungry and accepted the contempt and humiliation from the eyes of "city dwellers", he became a charming ancient city of Xiangxi with the passing of time and the migration of traces, accompanied by his local customs in his hometown day and night. Urban life has also left Shen Congwen with a mental trauma that is difficult to heal. In the city, he saw more complexity and depravity of human nature. From then on, he began to build his dream Peach Blossom Garden. However, the imaginary Xiangxi is not the real Xiangxi, but appears as a spiritual home and an ideal frame of reference under Shen Congwen's pen, which is a dream constructed by Shen Congwen who has suffered a lot from trauma.
Shen Congwen; Shen Congwen; Xiao Xiao; Girl's dream; Xiangxi dream; Xiangxi world; Rural civilization
Shen Congwen constructed an idealized and dreamlike paradise for us-Xiangxi, and he also constructed many "dreams" in his works. Among many dreams constructed by Shen Congwen, the author thinks that the girl's innocent dream can best reflect the Xiangxi world he wants to show and convey his spiritual sustenance most intuitively. When reading Sasha Vujacic, we will find that the image of dreams runs through the structure of the text. Taking the novel Sasha Vujacic as an example, this paper analyzes the "Xiangxi Dream" constructed by Shen Congwen's innocent girl dream.
1. Whispering dreams and women's growth
People often say, "think about it day and night." Shen Congwen used their dreams to show their purest images, entrusted their yearning for life, and the transformation of dreams also conveyed the connotation of women's growth.
1, girls' dreams and girls' portraits
Xiaoxiao in Xiaoxiao was only twelve years old when she was a child bride. Even if she marries someone else's wife, she is just a child, and she will "dream the dream of this era" when she sleeps at night. It can be said that Xiaoxiao's dream is a kind of compensation for her daytime life in a sense. As a child bride, she has to take care of her young "husband" and participate in family affairs. Her mother-in-law is as strict as a razor. So Shen Congwen's dream shows her childlike innocence and immature mind. She has a naive and optimistic personality. Even if she can't resist and escape her fate, she will still have her own interesting dreams at night. The content of dreams is full of joy and freedom, without losing children's naughtiness and naivety, which is in line with Shen Congwen's direct description of Mix's character.
2. Girls' dreams and women's growth
Xiao Xiao's growth is manifested in two aspects through dreams: one is the dream of female students. It has always been a story in the village that the female students died and everyone in the village laughed at them. However, female students symbolize progress and civilization to some extent, but they have become jokes and anecdotes in the eyes of rural people, which also reflects the conservative and alienated side of rural people. Grandfather teased Mix with a "female student", but Mix "suddenly had a vague desire in his heart" and there was a "female student" in his heart from then on. "Even in my dreams, I often dream of female students and walk side by side with these people." Mix's dreams have different contents in different stages of her life, which reflects her unconscious inner subconscious. This 15-year-old girl no longer dreams of a child as in fairy tales, so her dream of being a female student has obvious metaphorical significance.
Rustling's real growth is after being lured into pregnancy by a flower dog. The rustle mentioned in the work is still the rustle of the past. I hope she can forget the dog, but her stomach is really different. She always understands what's in her stomach, which makes her worry and have strange dreams. " Here, Shen Congwen did not describe a specific dream, but combined with the whole work, it is not difficult to see that although Mix satisfied his curiosity about lust under the temptation of Flower Dog, he was caught in a dilemma in life. At this point, the girl's innocent dream partner disappeared with the growth of her body, and the maturity of her mind finally completed Xiaoxiao's growth as a woman.
Second, the "Xiangxi Dream" constructed by the "Girl Dream"
1, ideal dream and ideal girl
For Shen Congwen, no matter Mix, Cui Cui or Sansan, they all entrusted his surrealist spirit. Therefore, the inner world of these 15-year-old naive girls has also been idealized. Idealized girls have idealized hearts and express them through idealized dreams.
For Xiao Xiao, the "female student dream" is even more out of reach. The country people's ridicule of female students doomed Mix to become a female student. Rustling's spiritual world is still a wasteland, and his reason is blinded. Just like the eight hairy areas in Xiangshan, it is primitive and vague, and life is in a passive and comfortable state. She didn't and never thought about how to control her own destiny. "The only lingering vision of changing fate in her innocent mind was swallowed up by the established feudal rural culture that suppressed women for thousands of years.
2. The girl's dream and the author's projection of reality.
The Xiangxi world and girls' dream constructed by Shen Congwen can be said to be his unsatisfied emotional projection in the real society. Therefore, the paradise shaped by emotional projection is not completely real. He created a "world" against reality in dreams and fantasies to escape the repression of reality.
Is the rural area in Wen Mingzhen really as simple and natural as described by Shen Congwen? Mix lives in a country where people are controlled by property, which is inevitable in any society. The world Mix lives in is not necessarily the "Peach Blossom Garden", and the beauty of human nature expressed in Mix seems to be not so pure. "Shen Congwen indulges in rustling and doesn't want her to suffer for what she did wrong; This connivance extends to the narrative, so that even the villagers write like a group of children and can't bear to face the moral consequences of the' adult law'. ..... Between the ideal idyllic romantic story and the gloomy realistic statement, there are still laws in the world where Xiao Xiao and her villagers live, but the residents of this world only pursue and resolve these laws with childlike innocence. " Similarly, Mr. Xia Zhiqing raised this suspicion in The History of Modern Novels in China: "Mix lived in a primitive society and believed in an incomplete and deviated Confucian ethical standard. However, after the incident, although she was afraid of the blame and punishment of her family, this period of time was not long, and her body and mind did not leave any traces of harm. "
When Shen Congwen came to Beijing with dreams, the reality gave him more confusion and disappointment. During this period, he "felt the oppression and spiritual destruction of modern urban civilization, and felt the indifference and hypocrisy among people everywhere", and the gap between reality and ideal made him lonely. For spiritual comfort, he "let himself find a good soil with enthusiasm where there is nowhere to go, and reach an ideal and mature situation", and he can only struggle with the fantastic beauty and reality of Xiangxi in his memory. Xiangxi in memory is no longer the village with bad environment and bad social environment, but has become a paradise with simple folk customs and perfect human nature under Shen Congwen's pen.
Third, the conclusion
When Shen Congwen describes dreams, the "dreams" he describes are not necessarily the real dreams of the characters, but they are just created by him to serve the psychology, personality and class attributes of the characters. Shen Congwen wants to create pure and kind Xiangxi girls such as Mix, Cui Cui, Sansan and Yaoyao through girls' innocent dreams, and create a perfect and beautiful Xiangxi through these simple Xiangxi girls. The "dreams" in these works are more real, deeper, better and more artistic. The writer "realizes the pursuit of aesthetic realm through fantastic dream description." As a "countryman", Shen Congwen ran into a wall everywhere in the metropolis, so he pinned his ideal on the ancient city of Xiangxi. He captured the best Xiangxi in his memory and jumped onto the page. This western Hunan bears Shen Congwen's deepest and most beautiful yearning for rural civilization, as well as his most disappointing and painful experience of urban civilization. He is just like those innocent girls who dream of freedom, innocence and beauty in his works. Under the impact of materialistic urban civilization, he is dreaming his own dreams and beautiful dreams.