What role did the novel Border Town play in the lively dragon boat race and duck catching game during the Dragon Boat Festival?

The scene of dragon boat race is repeated three times:

On the Dragon Boat Festival, Cui Cui was separated from her grandfather for the first time. She met her second son, Nuosong, who sent someone to take Cui Cui home. They have a hazy affection for each other when they get along.

The second time, in order not to forget the "sweet and beautiful" experience promised by the Dragon Boat Festival last year, I went to the riverside street of the city with my grandfather to watch the dragon boat race. Suddenly it rained. In order to avoid the rain, the grandparents and grandchildren went to the boatman's house. Instead of seeing him off, they met God's help, which laid the foundation for the two brothers to sing in Bixi's sister in the future.

When the Dragon Boat Festival scene appeared for the third time, Cui Cui kept "reviewing what she saw and heard in these two festivals and two days".

Features: the structural arrangement is suddenly recalled in front of us, one after another, ups and downs, and the narrative method combining sequence with supplementary narrative is adopted.

theme

Border Town has entrusted Shen Congwen's aesthetic ideals of "beauty" and "love", and it is the novel that can best express the beauty of human nature in his works. 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.

Xiangxi described in Border Town 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.