Border Town: Love, worldly wisdom, worldly wisdom, pure and natural love is still there. Have you read it?

Shen Congwen created a paradise-like Xiangxi in Border Town, as he himself said:

"Although their lives are so alienated from the general society, when tears and joy are integrated into these people's lives, they are similar to other lands and other young lives. They were immersed in that little love and forgot everything. If anything, these people are really closer to confusion. "

The real and warm feelings of Xiangxi people in Border Town have infected many people. It was through their characterization that Shen Congwen praised the pure feelings between people, that is, "human feelings". What do these favors include?

Young love

The love depicted in Border Town is not full of ups and downs, but it is simply "I don't see you for a day, and I think like crazy".

The dock boat will always be a big family. He has two sons, the first is Tianbao, and the second is Nuo. Both of them are the best in the crowd, but in comparison, the second son is better. Unexpectedly, they both fell in love with the boatman girl Cui Cui.

There are two brothers, only one Cui Cui, but the two brothers also have feelings for many years, so naturally they can't solve problems with their fists. So they intend to win Cui Cui's heart by singing folk songs in a traditional and romantic way.

Noko took the lead in singing. After hearing Noko's opening, his brother Tianbao knew that his voice was not as good as Noko's, so he chose to give up the opening and give Cui Cui to Noko directly.

In fact, before this, Cui Cui had a crush on Noel, and even rejected Tianbao's proposal to Noel. After Nuo was sent to sing, Cui Cui also confirmed his idea.

At this point in the story, it's time for this young love to blossom and bear fruit. "Your heart is the same as mine, and you will definitely live up to your homesickness." In the love of three people, there is always one that is redundant.

Tianbao's free and easy Jeannot and integrity, but also retained their dignity. There are many times in life when you need to choose. If you decide, you can avoid a lot of unnecessary entanglement and pain.

It's just that his love for Cui Cui has developed to the point of proposing marriage at home, which shows that his love is not watered down. It is precisely because this passionate love is doomed to have no response that he chose to leave his hometown and travel. His pure and peaceful love came to an end.

However, something unexpected happened, and Tianbao drowned unexpectedly. Northong also ran away from home. As a result, the feelings of the three people fell empty.

Cui Cui was helpless but couldn't let go of this relationship, so he had to wait for him by the river, because "this person may never come back, or he may come back tomorrow." Such a slim hope more powerfully demonstrates Cui Cui's persistence in this relationship.

brotherhood

One of the brilliant points of Border Town is that it describes the simple love in western Hunan on the surface, but in fact it is interspersed with many other feelings, among which brotherhood is one. Tianbao and Nuosong are good brothers who grew up together. Even if they fight for the heart of the girl they like, they don't want to hurt each other.

From Noel's point of view, when he heard about Tianbao's accident, he first put the blame on himself-if he didn't want to compete with his brother for Cui Cui, his brother wouldn't leave disheartened, and he wouldn't drown in the water.

His deep guilt and remorse prevented him from calmly facing this relationship with Cui Cui. They are brothers, but promise can't pass the hurdle of "indirectly killing his brother".

It can be seen that there is not only love, but also brotherhood, and even brotherhood is above love. There are people who agree with it and people who despise it. Those who agree with it are nothing more than thinking that "brothers are like brothers and women are like clothes", while those who despise them hold the attitude of "holding your hand silently and swearing to endure the hoary head". Whether this move is right or wrong cannot be generalized. After all, there are backstabbing between brothers and flying between husband and wife.

It's just that no matter what the reason, a man is a ridiculous gentleman if he only solves something by escaping.

Emotional bond

In this article, Cui Cui lives with her grandfather, and her optimistic and cheerful grandfather takes good care of Cui Cui. He will spare no effort for Cui Cui's marriage; Will understand Cui Cui's subtle emotional changes; Will tell her stories, tell jokes and even sing songs.

He has many traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. Being with Cui Cui also shows infinite warmth. He turned Cui Cuipei into the embodiment of love and beauty. They live on the ferry and are self-sufficient. The affection between them always shines brightly.

Later, due to Tianbao's unexpected death and leaving without saying goodbye, their marriage naturally fell apart, as if to confirm the sentence "It never rains but it pours". On a thunderstorm night, my grandfather died silently at the end of the thunderstorm without any warning.

Suddenly, all Cui Cui's expectations and happiness disappeared. Remembering what Grandpa said in front of me yesterday, I sailed west with him after dawn, and Cui Cui was heartbroken. It was in this situation that Cui Cui suddenly grew up and took over her grandfather's ferry work. Start to stand on your own two feet.

Affection is the most magical and effective medicine for rejuvenation. No matter how old this person is, he becomes a child as long as he is protected by his relatives. This is probably why Lao Laizi entertains relatives.

Human feelings of the world

Shunshun, as a rich man, does not have the shortcomings of meanness and selfishness described in many literary works. On the contrary, he is generous, generous, upright and fair, which is why he won unanimous praise from everyone. The worldly wisdom has made his career prosperous and prosperous. It is also under the guidance of his example that his two sons, Tianbao and Nuosong, are also excellent.

Cui Cui's grandfather's death embodies the human touch. Although she was helpless at this time, veteran Yang enthusiastically came to accompany her and help her with the funeral. With such unrequited patient help, we can see the simplicity and beauty of human feelings here.

The society is developing rapidly, and such development will involve people. It is precisely because of this that we need to maintain our inner goodwill and not be carried away by material desires.

The book Border Town was written by 193 1. At that time, Shen Congwen's love career was a double harvest, and during this period, his writing language was not green in the early stage, nor was it repeatedly carved in the later stage. His language at this time is round and full. As Wang Zengqi said, "Like a basket of newly picked Yantai agate cherries." .

And he wrote these, hoping to infect the people of the whole city through the simple folk customs in western Hunan. Point out a way out for people lost in urban civilization: pure and natural love is still in the world, and we must learn to stick to the truth, goodness and beauty in our hearts.

The whole article of Border Town is full of the thoughts of beauty and love of Neo-Confucianism, which reflects the false ugliness of the real world with human truth, goodness and beauty, thus inspiring people's truth, goodness and beauty and positive emotions. In love, worldly affairs and human feelings, Shen Congwen is committed to arousing people's thinking. Liu Hongtao even rated Border Town as "the pinnacle of pastoral tradition in modern literature".

In addition, the amorous feelings of Xiangxi in the text attracted many readers at home and abroad, and also established the position of this novel in the history of literature.