Express praise for the beautiful and innocent feelings of the people of Xiangxi. For example, the affection between grandparents and grandchildren, the love between men and women, and the simple emotional praise between villagers. At the same time, I envy such feelings. It also expresses the regret, regret and recollection that the original ecology of the mountain village was destroyed in the pace of modernization.
Second, different:
On the basis of the vibrant Xiangxi dialect, Shen Congwen absorbed the specialties of written language and literary language, making the long sentences in his novels accurate, tortuous and resilient. For example, "all materials are carried with mulberries and water poles, and all imported goods are removed from the landlords' knives", while the short sentence is heavy and lifeless.
For example, "Soju, a bottle of wine, scooped out of a big urn with a wooden filter, poured into an earthen bowl and immediately came to the desk."
Shen Congwen's novels never add words, and his writing is always immersed in the stream of consciousness, with many hints, rich feelings and colorful colors, forming a calm language art style.
Third, appreciate:
works appreciation
1, theme idea
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, which is relative to the destruction of traditional virtues in modern society and the shallowness, vulgarity and corruption of materialism and monetarism everywhere.
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. 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. Border Town describes marriage proposal, brother's marriage, grandfather's dependence on Cui Cui with songs. 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 emphasizes the lifestyle of Xiangxi people and also wants to rebuild national morality and personality.
2. Artistic features
Border Town depicts the unique style of Xiangxi with beautiful lyrics and prose. Mainly in the following two aspects:
The first is delicate psychological description. Psychological description is a description of a character's inner activities such as will, desire, thoughts and feelings in a specific environment. Or unfold the beautiful soul of the character, or expose the ugly soul of the character to show the mental state and personality characteristics of the character.
Its methods are varied: or through dialogue, monologue, action, posture, facial expression, etc. Or indirectly revealed through fantasies and dreams; Or with the help of scenery description, atmosphere rendering and the reflection of people around you. There are two methods in this paper: one is to reveal the psychology of the characters through fantasies and dreams.
Cui Cui's bizarre "thinking" makes people feel the loneliness of a girl who gradually has her own psychology, as well as the inner agitation in the early stage of love; Cui Cui's dream of "top beauty and top sweetness" shows the sweetness of hazy love and the subconscious yearning for love.
Second, through the description of the characters' language and demeanor in a specific environment, strong hints are formed to induce readers to appreciate the inner mystery of the characters from their language and demeanor. Cui Cui repeatedly begged grandpa to leave his job on the ferry and come back to her, which made people feel Cui Cui's incomparable attachment to grandpa.
Listening to Grandpa's "The Song I Heard That Night" and "Cui Cui said to himself,' I picked another Saxifraga'", people feel Cui Cui's longing for sweet love in "Seeds of Love".
The second is the poetic description of the environment. The description of the environment in the novel not only sets off the psychological activities of the characters and immerses their emotions in a poetic atmosphere, but also shows us the unique fresh and beautiful natural scenery of the Xiangxi border region.
In the author's works, orioles, dense insects, beautiful dusk and silver moonlight are picturesque and beautiful. These are all naturally developed with the fluctuation of the emotional world of the characters.
Or compared with the gentleness, beauty and calmness of the evening, Cui Cuimeng's love is restless, lonely and thin and desolate; Or an ensemble with soft moonlight, a thin layer of white fog floating on the stream and insects, which sets off Cui Cui's eager expectation of sending love songs and the purity and obscurity of girls' love.
Extended data
brief Introduction of the content
Near the tea cave at the junction of Sichuan and Hunan, beside the White Pagoda of Xiaoxi, there lived the hero Cui Cui and her grandfather's old boatman. There is a ship called Shunshun in Chadong City. He has two sons, the first is Tianbao, and the second is Nuosong.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, Cui Cui went to watch the dragon boat race and met the handsome young sailor Nuo by chance, which left a deep impression on Cui Cui. At the same time, Tianbao, Nopa's younger brother, also fell in love with Cui Cui and proposed to the matchmaker in advance. Tianbao told Nuo that he fell in love with Cui Cui a year ago, and Nuo told Tianbao that he fell in love with Cui Cui two years ago. Tianbao was taken aback.
But at this time, the local group always took Xinmo as his dowry and wanted to betroth their daughter to Northong. I would rather inherit a broken ship than marry Cui Cui.
The two brothers did not follow the local custom to win or lose, but expressed their feelings by singing folk songs in a fair and romantic way, so that Cui Cui could choose from them. Northon is a good singer. Tianbao knows that he can't sing as well as his younger brother, and he is disheartened. He resolutely set sail for business.
Bixi only heard the song from Nuo all night. Later, the song never sounded again. The old boatman couldn't help asking. He thought it was the boss who sang it, but he learned that singers are talents. After telling the truth, the boss went into business. A few days later, the old boatman heard that the boss's boat on the water had an accident and drowned. ...
The boat at the dock is always smooth sailing, and the old boatman has become cold because of the death of his son Tianbao. Captain Shunshun doesn't want Cui Cui to be Nuo's daughter-in-law. The old boatman had to go home depressed. Cui Cui asked him, but he didn't say anything. It rained heavily at night, mixed with frightening thunder.
The next day, Cui Cui got up and found that the boat had been washed away and the white tower behind the house had collapsed. Cui Cui went to find his grandfather, but found that the old man had died when it was thundering ... Veteran Yang enthusiastically came to accompany him and made a living by ferrying, waiting for Nuo's return.
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