Linguistic Characteristics of Night at Duck's Nest (Shen Congwen)

The language is extremely tense, mobilizes one's imagination, and has a sense of the unexpected beyond words. For example: "When the night occupies the whole river, you can still see the firelight on the raft, the light in the window of the hammock, and the red light of the torch that flutters between the boulders on the riverbank as you get on and off the boat. At this time of the year there are people talking on the boat on the shore, and on the hammock and there is the sound of a woman singing a ditty under the dim light, and every time a ditty is sung, someone laughs and yells." Such a description, somehow reminds me of Zhu Ziqing wrote "like a distant high building faint singing", of course, there is a difference between elegant and vulgar. However, this is Shen Congwen's strength, he resented those so-called modern "elegant people", repeatedly claimed that "I am a countryman". However, the most vulgar may be the most elegant, from the "Night in the Duck's Nest" this piece of work can be seen, he is how good at vulgarity into elegance.