The book Border Town is a very famous novel by Mr. Shen Congwen. He once said that the purpose of his creation of "Border Town" is not to describe a paradise isolated from reality, but to show a life form! And in this life form, I have injected the joys and sorrows of life that I have experienced in my life journey for more than 30 years. What Mr. Shen wants to express is a healthy, beautiful and natural life form that does not contradict human nature. In the book Border Town, when a few simple ordinary people in a small place in a 700-mile-long water basin in Taoyuan are implicated by the karma of some ordinary people, their personal identity and thoughts should have made an appropriate explanation for the word "love" of human beings! Border Town reflects the social and life features of a remote town in western Hunan in the early 20th century. This is a society where primitive human nature and feudal patriarchal clan system are intertwined. Border town put the characters into genre paintings: sincere help, value for money, appreciate each other between people, even a diaojiao building has a simple and honest character like a villager, and so on. The story of a group of villagers who are not polluted by modern civilization is the background of this book. The full text takes Cui Cui's inner emotional world as the main line, which leads to the full text. With plain words, I profoundly pointed out the helplessness and sadness of being a China person in the choice between materialized personality strength (grinder) and love (ferry). Taking a person's spiritual pursuit of love and this contradiction, which is difficult to realize in objective reality, as the theme of this paper, vaguely reveals the ugliness and greed of human nature. In Border Town, Mr. Shen Congwen pays special attention to the role of Cui Cui, endowing love with promise through the evolution of Cui Cui, and then taking the conflict between reality and ideal as the scene, but Cui Cui is the most attractive and concerned. Her growth and inner expectation struggle are intertwined, which can be seen from many dialogues and landscapes. It is described in the book that ... Cui Cui grew up on windy days, so his skin became dark and green, so his eyes were crystal clear. Nature raised and educated him, and he was naive and lively ... He was great ... He never wanted to be cruel, never worried, never angry ... Thus, Cui Cui was a naive and smart little girl who never understood the way of the world and met the rural aesthetic standards. Someone once compared Cui Cui with Mix: "Mix is a more understandable figure than Cui Cui, while Mix may be a simple incarnation, and Cui Cui represents Shen Congwen's ideal." The former is not perfect, but it is true. The latter is perfect, but it is not true. Although this sentence is not completely correct, it has some truth. In Border Town, the pursuit of life freedom makes Mr. Shen Congwen reluctant to push the fate of the characters to a tragic ending. Of course, he is eager for his perfect little children to get reasonable living arrangements. Idealism lures the author to lead the fate of the characters to the comedy ending. However, Mr. Shen Congwen did not ignore all the tragic factors in the incident, nor did he underestimate the power of the mill as an essential symbol of feudal relations. In fact, as we all know, sometimes, in the process of pursuing life independence, there will always be some insurmountable obstacles, and realism forces the author to push the fate of the characters to a tragic end. In the end, just like Gone with the Wind in the movie, it left an imaginative ending, both expecting and helpless. Finally, I waited alone at the ferry for the return of promise. However, "this person may never come back. Maybe come back tomorrow! " The full text ends here, but people are always thinking. The author successfully created Cui Cui, a girl who is eager for feelings and strong. It always makes people want to know him more, take care of her more, and sympathize with her more. Although Cui Cui is sometimes full of confusion and contradictions, as the article says, "The days are long and Grandpa's words are long." When grandpa asked her what she was thinking, although Cui Cui said on the surface that she didn't want anything, she asked herself in her heart, "Cui Cui, what are you thinking? In addition, because the relationship between the characters in Border Town is not complicated, almost every character's personality can be observed from their dialogue and behavior, just like an old boatman: a character with rich emotional connotation of life. His character is not complicated. He is diligent, honest, generous, intelligent and a little harmless. He often attributed the events that he couldn't find causal connection from specific personnel to his own destiny, but he could foresee the development outcome from his rich experience. At Cui Cui's wedding, she was always absorbed in the tragic death of her daughter, and sometimes it had nothing to do with Cui Cui's life ... >>

The practical significance of Border Town is 20 points.

Border Town entrusted Shen Congwen's aesthetic ideals of "beauty" and "love", and it is one of his works that can best express the beauty of human nature. By describing the love tragedy of Xiangxi's daughter and lover Nuo, this novel reflects the painful fact that Xiangxi people can't grasp their own destiny in the face of "nature" and "personnel". So is Cui Cui, and so is Cui Cui's mother. They repeated their sad and desolate lives from generation to generation, but they couldn't find a way to get rid of this fate.

Through the love tragedy Border Town, Shen Congwen reveals the mystery of the fate of the characters and praises the innocent hearts of the border people. As for the theme of Border Town, in Shen Congwen's own words, "I want to show a' life form', a' beautiful, healthy and natural' life form that does not contradict human nature". "Border Town" takes the love between the granddaughter of the old man who supports him and Tianbao and Nuo, the two sons of the boatman, as a clue, and expresses the yearning and pursuit of rural life. If this quiet life is compared with the turbulent society at that time, it is simply a "paradise" out of the dust. People living in this paradise are full of primitive, inner and essential "love". It is precisely because of this kind of "love" that "when several fools and ordinary people are implicated in a place by an ordinary person, everyone deserves a piece of sadness and joy, which once properly interpreted the word" love "for mankind".

Border Town expresses the beauty of human nature by describing the pure love between young men and women, the sincere love between grandparents and grandchildren, and the kindness and mutual love between neighbors. The author wants to dilute the darkness and pain of reality and eulogize an ancient human nature and lifestyle symbolizing "love" and "beauty" through the love tragedy of Nuo. He Nuo bid farewell to the young people he deeply loved, neither pledging eternal love, being very much in love, nor doing anything out of line, nor trading power and money covered in copper, only the natural feelings between men and women bred in the primitive countryside, as fresh and healthy as flowers in the sun. The author not only warmly praised the way the two young people treated "love", but also enthusiastically eulogized the nobleness of Xiangxi people's behavior and the beauty of their souls. Border Town is Shen Congwen's masterpiece, which shows readers the harmonious life form of Xiangxi world. Border Town was published in 1934. The novel describes the tortuous love between Tianbao Henuo, two sons of Shancheng Chadong Wharf Group, and Cui Cui, the granddaughter of the ferryman. Green mountains and green waters, the old ferryman by the river, 16-year-old Cui Cui, natural forest protection on the river raft, and vigorous dragon boat. ...

Interpretation of text appreciation

First, the creative background

Border Town was completed in April 1934, which is the representative work of the author. Regarding the creative motivation of this novel, the author said: "What I want to express is a' lifestyle', a' beautiful, healthy and not against human nature'. My idea is not to lead readers to travel to Taoyuan, but to take advantage of the 700-mile journey from Taoyuan to a small town in the Youshui River Basin. When several stupid men and women are implicated in a place by an ordinary person, everyone deserves to have a sadness and joy, which has properly explained the meaning of the word' love' to human beings. " Taking Cui Cui's love tragedy as a clue, the whole article vividly shows the beauty of local conditions and customs in western Hunan.

Second, the plot of Border Town

In a remote town with beautiful scenery and simple human feelings in Xiangxi, there are two grandparents and grandchildren who live by ferry. Grandpa is over 70 years old and still strong; Granddaughter Cui Cui is 15 years old and is the seed of love. They are warm and helpful, simple and kind. Two years ago, during the Dragon Boat Festival, Cui Cui met the second young master of the local boatman and planted the seedlings of love. Tianbao, the brother sent by Nuo, likes beautiful and pure, and asks people to ask for relatives from his grandfather. The local Wang Tuan has always taken a fancy to Nuosong and is willing to take the mill as a dowry to marry his daughter to Nuosong. I would rather be a ferryman than a miller. I want to marry Cui Cui. So the two brothers agreed to sing and propose marriage, and let Cui Cui choose. Tianbao knows that Cui Cui likes to send promises. In order to fulfill his younger brother, he went out to the beach and died unexpectedly. Northong felt responsible for his brother's death, so he left Cui Cui and ran away from home. Grandpa worried about Cui Cui's marriage and died on a stormy night. Leave a man guarding the ferry and wait for promise to come back. "This man may never come back, maybe tomorrow!" " "

Third, simple human feelings.

The bright and clean scenery of the border town educates simple people. In the novel, everyone is enthusiastic and honest, and everyone has the legacy of an ancient gentleman. "Everything is very orderly, the people are restless and happy." (Border Town Part III >>

What are the language features of Border Town?

Love beauty; Family beauty; Beautiful homesickness; Beautiful mind; The beauty of human nature. Border Town is the representative work of Shen Congwen, a famous modern writer in China. In this novella, Shen Congwen not only sincerely remembers the simplicity of the frontier folk customs in the past, but also vividly depicts the beautiful scenery of green cliffs, green bamboos, white pagodas and round-trip ferries on the border of Sichuan and Hunan, and vividly depicts the human beauty among the working people living near the small mountain city. This paper aims to show its immortal artistic charm through a preliminary study of the artistic characteristics of Border Town. Shen Congwen, who lived in remote areas of western Hunan since childhood, has his own unique and often legendary life experience. This kind of work, which is accumulated by colorful and magnificent life and is mostly unknown to outsiders, is often amazing and can't put it down. Border Town is such a good work. Wang Zengqi, a disciple of Shen Congwen, once said: The Border Town is both realistic and romantic, and the life in the border town is both real and idealized, which is an idealized reality. In my opinion, this work is a novel of Shen Congwen, which uses true, natural and beautiful words to explain his understanding of life, soul and society. He changed his love and thinking about Xiangxi from simple and natural, and the ancient style still exists, into a drop of wine for ferrymen, between the lines, and into a border town with flesh and blood, love and death. "In this world, someone may want to build a pavilion on the beach or on the water. That's not me. I just want to build a small Greek temple. Choose mountains as the foundation and pile them with hard stones. Exquisite, strong, symmetrical, small but not slender, it is my ideal building. This temple is dedicated to human nature. " It feels great and magnificent. Shen Congwen only wanted to choose rocks as the foundation to build a small Greek temple, that is, to take the most primitive and basic material as the object, that is, "human nature." The theme of Border Town is to show human nature. Shen Congwen said in the preface to Shen Congwen's Selected Works: I want to show a life form, a beautiful, healthy and natural life form that does not contradict human nature. (preface to literary works) Healthy, natural and beautiful. The characters Cui Cui, the old boatman, the protection of natural forests and even the passengers crossing the river in Border Town are full of human beauty. In the author's mind, personality should be "loyal and honest", and these personalities are the author's ideal human nature. Shen Congwen's "Border Town" is based on the tea cave in a mountainous town in western Hunan, which describes the life of an old man who punted a boat and his granddaughter Cui Cui, as well as the tortuous and touching love story between Cui Cui and the boatman's sons Tianbao and Tan Song. The works vividly show the healthy, beautiful and simple folk customs of the people in the border town through the delicate depiction of the love between men and women, the love between grandparents and grandchildren, the love and mutual assistance of neighbors and harmonious coexistence. After reading Shen Congwen's Border Town, the most shocking thing is the beauty of human nature in the works. This power makes people cherish and yearn for love and beautiful humanity. In Border Town, the author endows all the people in the work with a simple humanity. 1. Border Town reflects the most natural, simple and authentic love beauty in human nature through the tragic love between the protagonists Cui Cui and Nuosong. Cui Cui, the hero, is a charming image and the soul of this book. She is the son of mankind and the daughter of nature. She is "naive and lively, like a small animal everywhere", "never considers cruelty, never worries, never gets angry". The breeze and sunshine in Xiangxi gave her a strong body; The green mountains and green waters in the tea cave gave her a pair of clear and transparent eyes like jasper; The bamboo rafts and white pagodas in Bixi Village gave her a simple heart. Water and boats filled her girlish years. Children and grandchildren live together by this ancient and clear stream, on the boat and under the White Pagoda. One is not greedy for money, the other is not envious of expensive, the third is not too poor, and the fourth is not lazy. They are willing to be poor and ready to help others, which embodies the traditional virtues of the working people in China-diligence, kindness and indifference. It is in this quiet and quaint hut that young Cui Cui inherited what she should have inherited from her grandfather and carried forward what she should have carried forward. With the growth of age, her personality has undergone subtle changes: less clever and more considerate; Less laughter, more shy. When I was young, I struggled to cross the bride's sedan chair by ferry, imitated the cries of lambs and calves, tied a handful of wild flowers on my head, dressed as a bride and stood on the mountain listening to the charming drums ... >>

What does border town mean?

China local literature, which flourished in the 1920s, formed a distinct realistic style under the influence of Lu Xun. However, in the 1930s, the local literature in Shen Congwen's creation showed a completely different style-crisp singing replaced sharp satire, and pure love drowned out hatred and pain. In particular, Border Town consolidates, develops and deepens the local lyric mode, and reshapes the image of China after The True Story of Ah Q, which is a poetic masterpiece.

In Border Town, the writer Shen Congwen, on the one hand, built his own idyllic utopia based on the remembered Xiangxi world, but on the other hand, he was deconstructed by designing some accidental events in the fate of the characters. Between the lines, it reveals the "beautiful, healthy and natural" life form that the author wants to express without violating human nature. This paper tries to analyze the beautiful life form and the special arrangement of accidental events in the simple folk customs of western Hunan from the author.

What is the purpose of Border Town?

The author's ideal is to express "a beautiful and healthy life form that does not contradict human nature" and "give a proper explanation to the word" love "of human beings." So, relative to what is "a beautiful, healthy and human life form"? The author eulogizes the virtues preserved in traditional culture to this day, which is relative to the fact that traditional virtues have been destroyed in modern society, and materialism and monetarism are shallow, vulgar and corrupt everywhere. Xiangxi described by the author 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. Grandpa's love for his granddaughter, Cui Cui's love for Nuo purity, Tianbao brothers' sincere love for Cui Cui and sincere brotherhood between brothers all represent the traditional virtues of unpolluted agricultural civilization. The author tries his best to describe the natural clarity of Xiangxi and the inner clarity of Xiangxi people. The author wrote about Song's proposal of marriage, the marriage of the two brothers, and the feeling that Grandpa and I lived together. These life forms and lifestyles of Xiangxi people imply the sadness of the loss of ancient virtues and values in real life, as well as the criticism of the materialism of modern civilization. The author admires the lifestyle of Xiangxi people and wants to rebuild national morality and personality.

What does Shen Congwen's Border Town want to express?

Border Town is Shen Congwen's most influential masterpiece. Through the love tragedy of Cui Cui, a naive girl in Xiangxi, the novel writes a life ode full of love and beauty: the love between young men and women, the love between grandparents and grandchildren, the affection between people, the charming and lovely customs and scenery of Xiangxi ... These love displays reflect the author's persistent pursuit of ideal beauty. With this primitive and wild beauty of pure human nature and beauty of human nature, he expressed his denial and resistance to the life form of civilized cities full of intrigue and copper coins. Although there is a considerable distance between this idealized human nature and life and the real society, the pursuit of them is undoubtedly an indirect struggle against the dark reality and has positive significance.

Border town test questions and answers 20 points

Answers to the exercises in the famous book Border Town

1. What kind of story is described in Border Town, which shows the author's pursuit of life.

A: Border Town is set in a small mountain city and nearby villages in western Hunan. It describes the life of an old man on a ferry and his granddaughter Cui Cui, and the tortuous love story between Cui Cui and Tianbao and Nuosong, sons of the ship manager. The work delicately depicts the pure love, beautiful affection and simple neighborhood relationship between men and women, vividly shows the healthy, beautiful and simple folk customs and human feelings of the people in the border town, eulogizes a simple humanity and life symbolizing love and beauty, and expresses the author's persistent pursuit of ideal life.

2. Briefly explain the interpretation of the themes of "beauty" and "love" in Border Town.

A: Border Town takes the love between Cui Cui, the granddaughter of the old man who supports him, and Tianbao and Nuo, the two sons of the boatman, as a clue, and expresses the yearning and pursuit for rural life. If we compare this quiet life with the turbulent society at that time, it is simply a "Xanadu" where dust comes out, and it is precisely because of this "love" that Sichuan was created. People living in this paradise are full of the original, inner and essential "love" of Xiangxi town at the border of Hunan and "some fools and ordinary people in the teahouse on the shore of Youshui". When they are implicated in a place by an ordinary person, everyone deserves a share. Sadness, for mankind? Love? These words have been properly explained. Border Town shows the beauty of human nature by showing the pure love between young men and women, the sincere love between grandparents and grandchildren, and the kindness and mutual love between neighbors. The author wants to pass

Through the love tragedy of He Nuo, the darkness and pain of reality are diluted and a simple symbol is eulogized.

Humanity and lifestyle of "love" and "beauty"

Please briefly describe your understanding of Cui Cui's love tragedy in Border Town.

Cui Cui is a pure and lovely country girl and the embodiment of beauty. Her love story is a sad song, a fleshy figure bred by the author's homesickness and homesickness. The author also exposes the hypocrisy, selfishness and cowardice of "modern civilization" through Cui Cui's artistic image, and expresses her ruthless criticism of "modern civilization".

Regarding the theme of Border Town, Shen Congwen said, "What do we want to show? The form of life? , one kind? Beautiful, healthy and natural? Without violating human life forms. " Please explain the meaning of this sentence in combination with the specific content of the work.

A: Border Town has entrusted Shen Congwen's aesthetic ideals of "beauty" and "love", and it is one of his works that can best express the beauty of human nature. Through the love tragedy Border Town, Shen Congwen revealed the mystery of the fate of the characters, praised the simple and kind hearts of the border people, and expressed his yearning and pursuit for rural life. If this quiet life is compared with the turbulent society at that time, it is simply a "paradise" out of the dust. People living in this paradise are full of primitive, inner and essential "love". Border Town expresses the beauty of human nature by describing the pure love between young men and women, the sincere love between grandparents and grandchildren, and the kindness and mutual love between neighbors. The author is not only interested in Cui

Two young people, Cui and Nuopai, warmly praised the way they treated "love", and also enthusiastically eulogized the nobleness of people's behavior and the beauty of their souls in Xiangxi.

5. "From Sichuan to Hunan, there is an official road going east. This road is near the border of western Hunan, and it comes to a place called? Tea cave? When I was in a small mountain city, there was a stream with a small white tower beside it. A single family lives under the tower. There is only one old man, one girl and one yellow dog in this family. " Please enjoy the beginning of Border Town.

A: ① At first, the method of telling stories was adopted. (2) The language is simple, simple and cordial (using the truest rhetoric), which brings up the idyllic artistic conception of the full text at once.

7. "Border Town" wrote that Tianbao drowned and sent him on a long trip. What kind of life did Cui Cui choose after the death of the old boatman?

A: With the double feelings of mourning for his grandfather and caring for his lover, Cui Cui continues to guard the ferry and the passers-by at the ferry. Summer has come, winter has come, the collapsed white tower has been rebuilt, and Nuo has not come back yet.

8. In the development of the story, the author deliberately interspersed with descriptions of Miao customs such as singing, marriage proposal and dragon boat race. What is its function?

A: In the development of the story, the author deliberately interspersed with descriptions of Miao customs such as singing, proposing marriage and dragon boat racing. In particular, the description of the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival shows the beautiful natural rings in the border town ...