Shen Congwen's Reading Experience of Border Town 1
After watching Border Town, I can't be calm for a long time. Those plain, simple and beautiful words, those pure and beautiful love that had to end in tragedy.
In a busy town, everyone is happy. They get along in a simple and kind way, help others without asking for anything in return, and be modest even in the face of love. In the three stories of Dragon Boat Festival, beautiful and simple Cui Cui strengthened her determination to love with actions and words. Poor grandpa has been worried that she will follow her mother's old path and won't tell her the truth. Things change, and there are too many accidental factors. We can neither predict the beauty nor change the facts. Every coincidence will often change our lives, and unconsciously let us fall into unpredictable events.
While lamenting the beauty of human nature of people in border towns, they also feel the turbidity of modern life. The old boatman on the ferry is free of charge, and Cui Cui is exquisite and smart, kind and simple, generous and smooth, which is rare in modern society. However, there is also a despicable and selfish side in human nature. Shunshun and his parents don't want Cui Cui, who indirectly killed the old man, to marry the old man, and let the old boatman die on a rainy night, leaving Cui Cui alone to guard the ferry!
Beside the White Pagoda in the border town, the beautiful sunshine guards the lonely girl. Life may be full of unknowns, and all we can do is wait. ......
Shen Congwen's Reading Experience of Border Town II
In fact, the book Border Town was read as early as in college, and I have always liked the style, natural style and simple human feelings of Shen Congwen's novels. Now I just started working, and I want to seek the pure land of my heart, so I recently took out this book.
In fact, this little book is not easy to read.
To say that this book is not easy to read is not to say that the plot is complicated and there are many characters. On the contrary, the story told in this book is very simple, that is, it comes from the ferry. Before he died, the old boatman hoped to find a reliable granddaughter, Cui Cui, to choose between his two sons, Da Lao and No.2. They always had smooth sailing on the so-called boat. As a result, the old man drowned in the freight, and when he left his hometown, the old boatman also died in a stormy weather.
So why is this not an easy book to read? This story happened in a small town called "Tea Cave" at the junction of Sichuan and Hunan. The unique scenery makes it impossible for people who have never been here to imagine what the author is saying. Don't believe it? What are tung oil, green salt and fennel?
The author's unique narrative style also brings difficulties to readers, which can of course be called language characteristics. For example, sentences like "Everyone living in this small town must have their own day and have inevitable love and hate expectations for personnel" abound, which will undoubtedly bring reading difficulties to farmers and soldiers.
The above is just about the language features of the novel, which is a kind of torture for me from the content. What was originally very simple was deliberately complicated by the author. The old boatman did not give a correct response to the matchmaker's proposal and Ertanya singing, as if he were constantly adjusting the appetite of the two brothers through his granddaughter. I can't understand how a country boatman can have such delicate feelings and skills. Until the last two brothers left their hometown, Shunshun also lost interest in this marriage, and the old boatman died helplessly on a stormy night. Who caused this?
I can only say that the author has invented a beautiful and tangled story.
Shen Congwen's Reading Experience of Border Town 3
After reading Shen Congwen's novel Border Town, I always wondered what the author wanted to write while admiring the exquisite beauty of the work. It's like describing a person's soul besides external health and beauty. Cui Cui in the works, a little girl, is "simple, kind, filial, smart, hardworking, simple, stubborn, strong and pursuing", which is not enough. It seems that the work has stronger bearing capacity and greater capacity. Between the lines of flowing water, in exquisite landscape paintings, in vivid crowds and in a grand stage art drama, the soul of China Confucianism is flowing.
Little yellow dog's loyalty to his master, Cui Cui's filial piety to foreign ancestors, and the courtesy of people in Chadong Town. After Grandpa Cui Cui died, almost all the villagers in the town came out to help the girl attend the funeral, leaving the old horse soldiers to continue to take care of Cui Cui and the ferry after the funeral.
And shame is: self-esteem and self-confidence. Cui Cui rejected the pity and sympathy of the villagers in Chadong, thinking that his father was guarding the tomb, insisting on continuing to ferry on the stream in Chadong to serve the villagers, while waiting for the return of his beloved second child, showing a village girl's extremely simple and persistent pursuit of human feelings, humanity and love and great self-esteem and self-confidence.
And these are what many people in many places unconsciously lack today!
Shen Congwen's Reading Experience of Border Town 4
As a woman who grew up in a city, I especially yearn for rural life. Recently, I read Mr. Shen Congwen's Border Town, and I was fascinated by the small border town and water town written by the master.
"Border Town" tells the ordinary and quiet life of a pair of grandparents and grandchildren in a small town in western Hunan, as well as the loneliness and faint desolation that are hard to erase in this ordinary and quiet. Cui Cui, the hero of the novel, has a hazy and endless love, but love is not the whole story. The master used his brisk style to tell the simple customs, primitive and simple life and picturesque scenery of Xiangxi town.
Life in Xiangxi is simple and hard. The master made me understand that a person's love for a piece of land is his love for the intoxicating scenery behind it after knowing its cruelty. After reading the whole article, I began to yearn for the small town far away from the border of Xiangxi. Wooden diaojiao building, swaying red lanterns, wet green slate, narrow ferry, slender white tower, and green smoke rising from the old village. All this constitutes an ancient painting, which has been described over and over again in my imagination. In that distant land, time seems to stand still. Cui Cui, the heroine, is gentle and clear as Hunan water, with melodious and clear singing voice, kind and generous grandfather, and romantic and generous boatman. Even the helplessness of life is poetic in this place, and people can't bear to look directly at it. The master used his story to show us the helplessness and sadness of Xiangxi people in the face of fate, but it also made us feel pity for life and believe in beautiful people.
I most yearn for the simple and kind folks in the border town. Cui Cui and her grandfather went to watch the dragon boat race, and the local leader gave them a lot of food. Some people married brides, and Cui Cui's grandfather sent them across the river without charging ferry fees. Cui Cui's grandfather died, and all the villagers around him came to help. Although their life is very poor, they can help each other and live as a family in that remote town. In contrast, we live in a reinforced concrete city every day. People are indifferent to each other, and sometimes we don't even know our neighbors. This has to be regrettable. I hope that one day, our city will become warm and harmonious. Everyone has a quiet ideal, and there is no selfishness between people. They cherish our living environment, help each other and build a world like home. And all this requires us to live with a kind heart like the people in Border Town.
Shen Congwen's Reading Experience of Border Town 5
1In June, 1999, Asia Weekly published "Top 100 China Novels in the 20th Century", ranked the novels written in Chinese all over the world in the 20th century, and selected the first 100 works. The people who voted in this ranking are scholars and writers at home and abroad. In this ranking, Lu Xun's collection of novels "Scream" ranks first, and Shen Congwen's novel "Border Town" ranks second. Judging from a single novel, Border Town ranks first.
When I first read Border Town, I was very confused. I don't understand what this article is about and what practical educational significance it has. I just think this article is beautiful, and a lot of descriptive words create a very romantic atmosphere. So, why does this novel have such an important position in China's modern literature? I can start with the writing style of the author Shen Congwen.
Romance and tranquility are Shen Congwen's writing styles. Under Chen Cong's writing style, there is no exorbitant taxes, no hierarchy, no exploitation and oppression. What he described in Border Town is all the most beautiful things in the world: beautiful scenery, dignified affection and pure love, which are well integrated together. This kind of natural scenery is the life realm of those who are otherwise, quiet and comfortable. In the story, the characters the author needs to create are the simplest, cleanest and purest. Clear and pure Cui Cui, pure and enthusiastic old people, bold and open-minded nature protection, showing off the group. They are not polluted by any impurities. Tianbao and Nuosong love Cui Cui. They take the form of singing. How simple. How simple love is in that song. The image of Cui Cui is not the image of a woman who dares to love and hate in realistic novels. She has only the blood of a simple girl. She only knows to wait for love, so she is simply waiting for promise to be sent back. It is difficult for her to decide what kind of family relationship to choose and what to choose. But Nuo's absence adds a tragic color and romantic factor.
So in this article, the author is trying to create a romantic atmosphere, which is also Shen Congwen's consistent writing style. Compared with the quiet life in the 1930s and the turbulent society at that time, the writing of this article is simply a "paradise", which is the environment written by Shen Congwen. Unlike Lu Xun, he criticizes reality. There is no politics in Shen Congwen's works, only the kindness of the people, beautiful scenery and simple atmosphere, and everything is immersed in beauty. Nowadays, people are pursuing the original text and more and more like to return to it. Therefore, Shen Congwen's articles are more and more respected by people. Border Town attracted many readers with its unique artistic charm and distinctive local customs, and established its unique position in modern China literature.
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