Introduction and main characters of Border Town

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.

It is Shen Congwen's masterpiece, and was selected as one of the top 100 novels of China in the 20th century, ranking second only to Lu Xun's Scream.

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 a handsome young sailor to see him off. He left a deep impression in Cui Cui's mind. At the same time, Tianbao, Nopa's younger brother, also fell in love with Cui Cui and proposed to the matchmaker in advance. 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 customs in the duel debate, but sang folk songs in a fair and romantic way to express their feelings and let Cui Cui choose from them. Arnold is a good singer. Tianbao can sing, but his younger brother, depressed, sails at will to do business.

On the edge of Bixi, I only heard my songs all night. Later, this song never sounded again. The old boatman couldn't help asking, I thought it was sung by the boss, but I learned that it was sent by the singer. The boss told the truth and went to do business. A few days later, the old sailor heard that the boss's boat had a problem 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 see her grandfather, only to find that the old man had died in the thunder and lightning.

Veteran Yang enthusiastically came to accompany him, making a living by ferry, waiting for Nuo to return.

character introduction

Cui Cui 1

Cui Cui's naive, gentle and pure little girl is the author's ideal artistic image of "love" and "beauty". When Cui Cui came into this world, she was an angel of love and a spirit of love. Her grandfather took her to a big family, and the old and the young lived alone. She is both the daughter of love and the daughter of nature. In her "The Unity of Heaven and Man", she is the beauty of an elf and an incarnation.

Through her love story:

The first stage: Cui Cui's love enlightenment stage. When she first saw the dragon boat in the town, the seeds of love sprouted.

The second stage: the awakening stage of Cui Cui's love. Two years later, she went to the city to watch the dragon boat, and her love consciousness was completely awakened.

The third stage: Cui Cui's persistent love stage. After she fell in love with Northson, she didn't expect Northson's brother to fall in love with her.

Out of loyalty to love, she obviously rejected grandpa. However, the love she sent suddenly became very depressed. Send her away from home, grandpa died, let her grow up overnight. Finally, she became a ferryman like grandpa, and she loved and waited for the singer's return. These fully show the powerful side of Cui Cui.

2. Grandpa

Grandpa has the traditional virtues of China, and he has infinite feelings for his granddaughter Cui Cui. Worried about Cui Cui's love, trying to promote the realization of Cui Cui's love. In my life, I am also very concerned about Cui Cui. I won't let Cui Cui sit on a hot stone, but I am worried that Cui Cui is ill. I tried my best to understand Cui Cui's thoughts. When she is sad and lonely, she will tell stories, tell jokes and sing songs.

He is also a simple but stubborn old man. He is confident and proud of the beauty of Cui Cui. In order to marry a good family for Cui Cui, he is poor regardless of his position, and his inner worries and responsibilities are intertwined.

3. Natural forest protection

Tianbao's character is generous and generous. He is the eldest son of this ship, but he falls in love with the granddaughter of this poor ferry. He knows that his brother likes Cui Cui, too. The two sang "Duel", but he mentioned his relatives first, "as a brother's car leader." He knows that he is not the "enemy" and he is very successful. My brother fully demonstrated his 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.

Step 4 send it away

Northon has his mother's beautiful personality and delicacy. Nuosong pursued love alone, "dueled" with his brother, and sang love songs in the middle of the night, but it was not known to his sweetheart. Finally, I ran away alone and drifted somewhere.

As early as the mid-1930s, Shen Congwen wrote confidently: "My works will be circulated longer and further than those of these people. I can't refuse. " Border Town, with its profound interpretation of human nature and unique artistic style, occupies an important position in the literary history of China and even the world.

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.

Extended data:

Creation background

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, conscientious scholars in China are thinking about the essence of human nature, and Shen Congwen is naturally at the forefront, so he hopes to pass his impression of Xiangxi.

This paper describes a small town in Xiangxi, which is similar to the Peach Blossom Garden, and points 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. ?

Shen Congwen's aesthetic ideals of "beauty" and "love" are entrusted, which is one of his works that can best express the beauty of human nature. 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.

The author does not pay attention to the love story itself, but vividly shows the healthy, beautiful and simple human love of border town residents through the detailed description of the love between men and women, the relatives of grandparents and grandchildren, the love between father and son, and the harmony of neighbors, and weaves a picture of an ideal, harmonious and sincere primitive life form.

It shows the author's good wish to treat all kinds of ills brought by modern civilization with simple nature and primitive life. The author puts the poetic life of love and beauty in the beautiful scenery and charming customs of western Hunan, exudes fresh breath, sets off the spiritual world of the characters, and makes the works form a distant and touching pastoral.

The language is simple and implicit, and the lyrical atmosphere is strong. In the dreamland where reality and reality set each other off, it shows the lingering feelings and rich inner world of the characters.

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