What can we learn from Border Town by Shen Congwen, the "writer of style"?

What does "Border Town" tell us? Follow me today to find out.

Shen Congwen's "Border Town" tells us that the virtues preserved in traditional culture are linked to the superficial, vulgar and corrupt reality of modern society where traditional virtues are destroyed and filled with materialism and monetarism. The depiction of western Hunan, with its beautiful natural scenery and simple folkways, tells us that people should treat each other sincerely and love each other without hierarchy and utilitarianism.

"Border Town" takes the love between Cuicui, the granddaughter of the old man of the ferry, and Tianbao and Nuo Song, the two sons of the boat clan, as a clue to express the yearning and pursuit of an idyllic life. This peaceful life, if compared with the turbulent society at that time, is simply rolling on the earth "paradise". People living in this paradise are full of primitive, inner and essential "love". It is because of this "love" that "when a few fools and laymen are involved in an ordinary person, they should get a share of sadness and happiness, which once aptly explains "in the small town of western Hunan at the junction of Sichuan and Hunan, in the tea hole on the bank of Youshui," the human spirit of the "heaven" of the rolling earth is full of primitive and intrinsic "love". hole", the human "love" the word "Border City" through the expression of young men and women between the innocent love, grandparents and grandchildren between the sincere love, between the neighbors of the kindness and mutual love, expressed the beauty of human nature. The author hopes that through the love tragedy of Cui and Nuo song, downplaying the darkness and pain of reality, celebrating an ancient human nature and way of life symbolizing "love" and "beauty".

"Border Town" Shen Congwen "beauty" and "love" of the aesthetic ideal, is his work in the most embodied the beauty of human nature of a work. Through the depiction of the love tragedy between Cuicui, a girl from western Hunan, and her lover Nuo, the novel reflects the tragic fact that people in western Hunan are unable to grasp their own destiny in the face of "nature" and "man". Cuicui is like this, and so is her mother. They repeat their sad and melancholic life from generation to generation, but they can't find a way out of this fate.

That's all I have to say, what do you think?