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.
Creation background of the expansion: Border Town was written in 193 1 year, which was the season of Shen Congwen's love career. 193 1 year, although the society is turbulent, it is still slightly peaceful on the whole. At this time, China's conscientious literati were thinking about the essence of human nature, and Shen Congwen naturally took the lead.
Therefore, he hopes to describe a small town in Xiangxi similar to the Peach Blossom Garden through his own impression of Xiangxi, and point out a bright road for the confused humanity in urban civilization. There is still pure and natural love in the world, and life needs to convert to the nature of nature.
Border Town is the representative work of Shen Congwen's novels, and it is an excellent novella that expresses local feelings in the history of China literature.
Based on the tea cave in the border town of Sichuan and Hunan in the 1930s, it depicts the unique customs of the Xiangxi border region with beautiful strokes of lyric poetry and prose. The love tragedy of Cui Cui, a boatman girl, highlights the goodness and beauty of human nature and the clarity and purity of the soul.
It attracted many readers at home and abroad with its unique artistic charm and vivid local customs, and also established the special position of Border Town in the history of modern literature in China.
Shen Congwen wrote many novels and essays in his life, but among his many works, Border Town occupies the most important position. It is no exaggeration to say that Border Town laid the historical position of Mr. Shen Congwen in the history of literature.
About the author: Shen Congwen (1902- 1988), formerly known as Shen Yuehuan, is a native of Fenghuang County, Hunan Province, Han nationality (his father is Han nationality), but some of them are Miao (Shen Congwen's grandmother is Miao) and Tujia (Shen Congwen's mother is Tujia). He is a famous modern writer.
Cultural relics researcher, a representative figure of Beijing school novels, whose pen names are Xiu, Guan Bi and Xuan Ruo. 14 years old, joined the team and roamed the Hunan-Sichuan-Guizhou border region. 1924 started literary creation, and went to teach in the National The National SouthWest Associated University after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. 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 ancient Chinese costumes. He died of a heart attack in his apartment in Beijing on May 1988. ?
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