Why does Cuicui's love end in tragedy in Border Town?

Cuicui's love story, the author seems to show a "no one's fault" love tragedy, the author is only conscious of the human dimension of the story, not intended to explore the tragedy of man-made, social and other factors.

We might as well take a look at the novel in the Tianbao and Nuo Nuo's choice of courtship: Tianbao chose the car road - to matchmaking, this marriage is the Han tradition, in the Tianbao's concept of marriage is still the Han's "parental orders", so in his wishful thinking of the matchmaker! After the failure of his marriage proposal.

Instead, he resented the old boatman: "I don't know whether the old man intended to marry his granddaughter to a singing sailor, or to marry a man by the rules! It can be seen that he sees the old boatman as the sovereign of Cuicui's marriage. Moreover, he is saying that marrying a singing sailor is not a "regular" marriage.

Nuo Nuo's choice of road - standing on the hill singing, which is the tradition of the Miao people. Miao people are young men and women free love marriage. However, since the Qing Yongzheng years in western Hunan this side of the implementation of the "land reclassification" since, along with the Miao resistance to the force of elimination, an invisible thing is slowly penetrate this quasi-natural life in the world, the ancient and simple folk customs are also disappearing.

Mr. Shen in the "long river - inscription" said: "In the winter of 1934, I returned to Xiangxi from Peking on business, by Yuanshui boat upstream, to the hometown of phoenix county. It had been eighteen years since I left my hometown, and once I entered the Chenhe River Basin, everything was different. On the surface, everything seems to have improved greatly, but if you pay close attention, you will see a tendency of degeneration in the change.

The most obvious thing, that is, the rural society retains the integrity and simplicity of the beauty of human feelings, almost almost disappeared, instead of the actual society in the past two decades to cultivate a successful only real but profit-oriented outlook on life." The world reflected in "Border Town" is still a beautiful place, but it is also increasingly affected by the feudal patriarchal system, and people are tempted by material gain.

Because of this, the conflict between the two concepts of marriage so that the passionate love of Cuicui and Nuo send life and death separation. The author takes this opportunity to express his abhorrence of the traditional Han concept of marriage, and give a profound criticism. This contains his personal experience and pain.

"American scholar Jin Jiefu asked Shen Congwen face to face the reason why he left his hometown for Beijing in 1922, he had made it clear that he did not want to be his aunt's "son-in-law", and for this reason escaped from the marriage to establish and consolidate the upper layers of the intertwined network of rule in western Hunan.

He said: 'I have long been very disgusted with this relationship, so once you leave, not to re-enter the rich and powerful cage,'" the text does not want to be the son-in-law of the General Manager of the Wang Tuan in pursuit of freedom of marriage Nuo, seems to vaguely see the shadow of Shen Congwen.

When Nuo and Cuicui were separated from life, the reader is most reluctant to see in Cuicui again repeated the mother's tragedy. To people's relief is Cuicui and Nuo did not like the mother and soldiers as both martyrdom and death, Nuo did not give up this love, "Dad, you think this is for you, home more mills more people, you can live, you promised.

If it is for me, I have to think about it, and then say it some days. I do not yet know I should get a mill, or should get a ferry; because my life or only allow me to support a ferry." In order to love, Nuo firmly resisted the temptation of material. Look at Cuicui she is far more than the desperate mother more brave and strong, she with hope and their own bumpy fate for the enduring struggle.

Accept all kinds of trials and tribulations and waiting for Nuo Nuo's return, bravely accept the challenge of the unfortunate fate. In the love setbacks in the character of Cuicui therefore shows the beauty of the soft and strong. There is really a "Zi Gui half of the night is still crying blood, do not believe that the east wind call not back." The first is that the world's most important and most importantly, the world's most beautiful.

This tragedy is actually caused by the opposition and contradiction between the marriage customs of the Miao and Han peoples, as well as by a little bit of the real but only profit-oriented culture. It is not difficult to see that "Border Town" is a warm work, but behind it lies the author's deep sense of tragedy.

Expanded information:

Biancheng is Shen Congwen's masterpiece, which was written between 1933 and early 1934. This work, like Shen's other works in western Hunan, focuses on the changing fortunes of ordinary, kind-hearted people, and describes the tragedy of the Hunan girl Cuicui's misadventures, as the author says: "Everything is full of goodness, but everywhere there is bad luck. Since it is not coincidental, the simple goodness will inevitably produce tragedy."

"Border Town" is written with a dream-like beauty, like ferry, teaching children, saving people, helping people, and sending people to the funeral, which are daily trivialities, all of which seem to be quite idealized by the author, which is quite a bit of the weather of "gentleman's field". Of course, contradictions are not non-existent, and a discerning reader can tell that the shadow of social contradictions is hidden in the background materials used by the author. The author has also made no secret of the fact that his intention is to support "the people of national rejuvenation" and "give them a kind of courage and confidence".

Shen Congwen (1902-1988) was a novelist and essayist. Formerly known as Shen Yuehuan, a native of Phoenix, Hunan province, after graduating from elementary school in 1918, he lived with his native troops in the counties of the Yuan River Basin before formally joining the army. In 1922, influenced by the May Fourth Movement, he left the army and went to Beijing to study writing, and from 1924 onwards, he began to publish his works in the supplement of Beijing's Morning Post, Modern Review, and Novel Monthly.

Between 1934 and 1935, he edited the literary supplement of Ta Kung Pao in Beijing and Tianjin. After the outbreak of the war, he taught at the Southwest United University in Kunming. After the founding of New China, he worked at the Chinese History Museum and the Palace Museum. He is the author of long novels, such as Border City and Long River, and collections of essays, such as Prose Notes on a Journey to Hunan and Western Hunan.

Shen Congwen did not write with a light and calm mood. In recent years, the publication of Shen Congwen's Complete Works*** has 33 volumes and 10 million words, most of which were written before the age of 50, and from this huge number alone, we can see his ambition to fight for the world.

He came to Beijing in 1922, writing both to rewrite his personal destiny and to create a world on paper.

In 1938, Shen wrote a letter to his elder brother in Chenggong, Yunnan Province, referring to his insistence on writing in a "shabby" life, saying confidently, "My work, in another time, will not be ignored and forgotten by history, and my work will have an impact on the Chinese literary movement in a hundred years. Literary movement has an impact on the ...... full of pride, ambition and conviction".

In the second half of his life, many writers face two choices, one is to write, such as Lao She's writing "Longshougou"; one is not to write, such as Bajin, and then there is no novel.

Shen Congwen took another path, he is still writing, writing cultural relics, the so-called "flowers, pots and jars", a "Study of Ancient Chinese Costume" can be called a masterpiece, and Qian Zhongshu's "tube cone", belonging to the growth of that barren era of the oddballs, and with the immortality.

Confucius said, "The impetuous man is aggressive, and the impetuous man does not do anything." I thought at that time, Ba Jin, can be called impetuous, and Shen Congwen, Qian Zhongshu is really crazy: convinced that the sky is coming down with me, who else? Although Shen, Qian always by the descendants of the wishful thinking to honor for the gentle, Liangcongjianjie.

Qian Zhongshu's novels, in addition to the "Siege", only a thin booklet "human and animal ghosts", extremely talented, but also to show off their talents, such as the master of the occasional appearance of the jianghu, once relieved, sheathed his sword, and from then on long bowed away. Shen Congwen's novel, at least ten times the money, because too much, uneven quality, but also like a wild forest growing freely, barren and alive.

Novels for him, not a whim, is regarded as a life's work, and even the first twenty years of writing, are still only "exercises". Because his ambition, as he said in his letter, is to use a pen to write novels to isolate and confront the whole society. In other words, he wanted to write a world on paper to counteract the real world. The main body of this world is a place called Xiangxi

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