The Creative Background of Border Town

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, Shen Congwen hopes to describe a small Xiangxi town 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.

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Border Town is Shen Congwen's masterpiece, and it was selected as one of the top 100 novels in China in the 20th century, ranking second only to Lu Xun's Scream. Based on the tea cave in the border town between Sichuan and Hunan in the 1930s, it depicts the unique customs of western Hunan with beautiful strokes of lyric poems and essays. The pure love story of Cui Cui, a boatman girl, shows the goodness and beauty of human nature.

Due to the aesthetic art of Border Town, the novel Border Town has a unique position in the history of modern literature in China. 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.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Border Town