Brief introduction of Shen Congwen's creative thought?

The style of Shen Congwen's works tends to be romantic.

Wen Cong's writing style tends to romanticism, and he demands the poetic effect of novels, combining realism, recalling dreams and symbols. The language style is simple, the sentence pattern is simple and steep, the trunk is prominent, simple and heavy, simple and vivid, with strong local color, which shows the unique charm and spirit of rural humanity.

Shen Congwen's rural novels are typical rural cultural novels, which not only contrast with the "modern civilization" of the city as a whole, but also always pay attention to the lifestyle, life footprint and historical destiny of rural people stipulated by the collision of different cultures in the modern transformation process of Xiangxi world.

Novel type

There are two main types of novels created by Shen Congwen. One is about life in western Hunan, and the other is about city life. The former praises the beauty of human nature by describing the primitive and natural life form of Xiangxi people. The latter reveals the loss of urban natural humanity through the corruption of urban life.

The rural world in his works shows the overall pattern of opposition and mutual participation with the urban society, while the "distortion of human nature" of the upper class under the urban theme is revealed through the candlelight of the ideal life of "harmony between man and nature".

It is his unique philosophical speculation on the value scale and connotation that has built a bridge between urban life and rural world under Shen Congwen's pen. It is also because of his criticism of "modern literature" with money as the core and his pursuit of ideal romanticism that Shen Congwen wrote such an ideal song of life.