What is the story of Border Town?

In Xiangxi Town, Cui Cui lives with his grandfather. Once on the Dragon Boat Festival, Cui Cui met his parents and fell in love with him. Unexpectedly, their brother likes Cui Cui, too. Later, the two brothers fell in love with Cui Cui. After Cui Cui made it clear, he went all the way to other places and finally died in a foreign land. Both parents are favored by the girls in the group and want to marry the mill. The thought of Cui Cui and his association with the elderly is very tangled. My parents left my hometown after quarreling with my father. At this time, Cui Cui's grandfather died, and he waited for his parents to come back for her alone. ......

Border Town is the representative work of Shen Congwen. It takes the tea cave in the border town of Sichuan and Hunan in the 1930s as the background, and depicts the unique customs of western Hunan with beautiful brushstrokes of lyric poetry and prose. The pure love story of Cui Cui, a boatman girl, shows the goodness and beauty of human nature.

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Shen Congwen (1902- 1988) is a novelist and essayist. Formerly known as Shen Yuehuan, a native of Fenghuang, Hunan. 19 18 After graduating from primary school, he lived in the counties of Yuanshui Valley with his native troops, and then officially joined the army. 1922, influenced by the May 4th Movement, left the army and went to Beijing to study writing. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he taught at Kunming National Southwest Associated University. After the founding of New China, he worked in the Museum of Chinese History and the Palace Museum. He is the author of novels such as Border Town, Long River, etc., and a collection of essays such as Journey to the West in Hunan Province.

Border Town is Shen Congwen's work, which is highly praised by literary circles for its supreme aesthetic art, among which Cui Cui, the heroine of Border Town, has also become a famous artistic image in the history of literature. In fact, Border Town was written by Shen Congwen during his honeymoon, and the prototype of Cui Cui was Shen Congwen's wife Zhang Zhaohe.

"Border Town" is a dreamlike beauty, such as ferry, teaching children, saving people, helping others, funeral and other daily chores, which are quite idealistic in the author's view and smack of "gentleman's field". Of course, contradictions do not exist. A discerning person knows at a glance that the background materials used by the author hide the shadow of social contradictions.

The poetry in the works first comes from the strong local flavor of western Hunan. Through the love story between Cui Cui and Nuosong and Tianbao. The natural scenery and living habits of the tea cave are intricately presented to readers. The crystal clear river, the small town by the water, the diaojiao building on the river street, the ferry climbing the cable, the white pagoda related to the "Feng Shui" in the teahouse, the chirping of birds in the dark green bamboo raft, ... all these scenery with local colors are natural and beautiful, beautiful without heavy ink.

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