Seek the artistic characteristics, characters and theme of Border Town!

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.

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1. Cui Cui

Cui Cui is naive, kind, gentle and pure. She lives alone with her grandfather and takes good care of him. Because grandpa doesn't understand her heart, she fantasizes about running away and letting grandpa find her, but when she thinks of her helplessness when grandpa can't find her, she is worried about grandpa and afraid of blaming herself for the consequences of her thoughts. She fell in love with Nuosong, and her feelings were pure and sincere. After the excerpts, Nuo was sent away, and she unswervingly waited for the return of her sweetheart, showing her persistence in love.

2. Grandpa

Grandpa Bao has the traditional virtues of China, and he has infinite love for his granddaughter. Worried about Cui Cui's marriage, trying to make Cui Cui's love come true. In my life, I am also very concerned about Cui Cui. I don't want Cui Cui fidgeting for fear that Cui Cui will get sick. Emotionally, I try my best to understand Cui Cui's thoughts. When Cui Cui is sad and lonely, I tell her stories, tell jokes and sing songs.

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Tianbao is generous. He is the eldest son of the boatman, but he falls in love with the granddaughter of the poor ferryman. He knew that his younger brother loved Cui Cui, too. They sang Duel, but he kissed first because of himself. "Be the brother's leader", so he insisted that his brother sing first. As soon as his brother "spoke", he knew that he was not an "opponent", so he generously fulfilled his brother and fully showed brotherhood. Later, he went to the seaside, not only for his brother's happiness, but also to dispel his disappointment and sadness, "so as to forget everything above." In the end, he died unexpectedly. It can be said that he died for affection and love.

Third, the theme.

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 emphasizes the lifestyle of Xiangxi people and also wants to rebuild national morality and personality.