Old boatman, where are Cui Cui and Yellow Dog? Do you have a name?

The place where the old boatman, Cui Cui and Huang Gou are located has no name, but is near the tea cave at the junction of Sichuan and Hunan, next to the White Pagoda of Xiaoxi.

These three characters are from the famous novel Border Town by writer Shen Congwen. Based on the tea cave in the border town of Sichuan and Hunan in the 1930s, the novel depicts the unique customs of western Hunan with the beautiful brushwork of lyrical 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 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 was naturally at the forefront. 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.

The Aesthetic Art of Border Town

In Border Town, the author describes villages and towns, mills, carts, waterwheels, docks, rope crossings on streams, streets in tea caves, bamboos in Bixizui and so on. On both sides of the Youshui River. As if you were there, you can see the unique scenery of the mountain city. In particular, the houses on Linjiang Street, half landed and half suspended in the water, are unique landscapes in western Hunan. The author often paints a faint landscape with a faint pen and ink, which complements the faint breath of the article and makes people feel the cleanliness and beauty of the water and soil here.