What does Shen Congwen's Border Town want to express?

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.

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Due to the aesthetic art of Border Town, the novel Border Town has a unique position in the history of modern literature in China. Border Town is Shen Congwen's masterpiece, and it was selected as one of the top 100 novels in China in the 20th century, ranking second only to Lu Xun's Scream.

Border Town depicts the unique style of Xiangxi with beautiful lyrics and prose. Mainly in the following two aspects:

The first is delicate psychological description. Psychological description is a description of a character's inner activities such as will, desire, thoughts and feelings in a specific environment. Or unfold the beautiful soul of the character, or expose the ugly soul of the character to show the mental state and personality characteristics of the character. There are two methods in this paper: one is to reveal the psychology of the characters through fantasies and dreams. Second, through the description of the characters' language and demeanor in a specific environment, strong hints are formed to induce readers to appreciate the inner mystery of the characters from their language and demeanor.

The second is the poetic description of the environment. The description of the environment in the novel not only sets off the psychological activities of the characters and immerses their emotions in a poetic atmosphere, but also shows us the unique fresh and beautiful natural scenery of the Xiangxi border region.

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Baidu encyclopedia-border town