The full text of Border Town revolves around a leisurely poem, which is beautiful and silent. Border Town is located in the southwest of China, surrounded by Wuling Mountain, Xuefeng Mountain and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Rivers such as Youshui also gather here. Green mountains and green waters are isolated from the world, and there is a quaint charm in seclusion, which adds a bit of mystery to poetry. As Mr. Shen said, "Border Town" is the opposite of a big city, and it is "another thing in another part of China" ("Border Town Inscription"). The border town in this article exudes a poetic purity far away from the city.
The whole Border Town is like a simple pastoral, telling the simplicity and beauty of life, sitting quietly listening to the sounds of nature from a kind heart, feeling the peach blossom garden far away from the hustle and bustle of the world, and the whole heart unconsciously captures the clear and clean atmosphere between the lines.
Human nature is poetic.
The characters portrayed in the article Border Town are even more poetic and memorable.
As the most successful figure in Border Town, Cui Cui is the most perfect poetic crystallization. The bright and gentle granddaughter who works on the ferry is a pearl bred by Mr. Shen's long-term "homesickness complex". She "grew up in a windy day, making her skin dark and her eyes clear as crystal", and "is not cruel, not worried, not angry and arrogant, like a yellow deer on the mountain". These simple and pure words are like a short and clear poem. Cui Cui's love is the main thread of this paper. This love is so pure and sincere that it transcends all worldly interests. That love grew from obscurity, step by step, perfect and firm. When I first met my parents, Cui Cui was "silent all night", and even the ferry sometimes remembered the scene of meeting my parents. When I really saw my parents, I pretended not to care about the sudden heartbeat, and the girl's feelings came to life. Later, Nuo sent his parents to sing songs at night according to the "road" pointed out by the old boatman. "The soul in Cui Cui's dream is floating for a wonderful song, as if it were floating gently everywhere; I went to the White Pagoda, got off the vegetable garden, got on the boat and circled half a cliff-what should I do? Pick Saxifraga! " In the form of slow-motion movies, the author evokes the girl's mood with singing, plucks long transparent feathers and flutters her wings. This budding girl's feelings are just a long poem with elegant rhythm, carefree and moving.
Cui Cui's grandfather spent his whole life on the ferry, never getting tired and never taking money. Even if there is, he will buy some tea to quench the thirst and relieve fatigue of people crossing the river. He is a typical hardworking and kind worker in China. He is deeply concerned about Cui Cui, thinking that she can have a good home, so that he can die peacefully. The image of grandfather embodies a simple and kind human charm everywhere. In addition, other characters in Border Town also contain some poetic features, such as Er Lao, born in the country, used to water, dyed in the mountains, settled in his hometown, and had no evil thoughts about love. It is this pure "poet character" that attracts Cui Cui's equally transparent heart.
Words are poetic.
Border town structure is perfect, in one go; And each paragraph has its own beginning and end, forming a complete prose poem.
"I usually imagine the scenery best and describe it well." Shen Congwen is a master of rhetoric and landscape painting. The poetic language and artistic conception of Border Town are the reasons why this picturesque response is so touching. Mr. Wang Zengqi commented: "The language of Border Town is the best language in Shen Congwen's" Prime Year ". Neither like the initial sweep, unrestrained; It's not as complicated and obscure as the later period. The language of this period, every sentence is full, full, sweet and sour, like a basket of newly picked Yantai agate cherries. "
Scene is the environment in which the characters live, the externalization of the characters and a part of them. Painting landscapes is to shape people. Throughout the text, every sentence is incisive and amazing: "It's almost evening, and all the other birds seem to be resting, except the cuckoo." Stones and mud were exposed to the sun all day, and then a kind of hot air was released. The air smells of earth, plants and beetles. The description of smell and sound brings the unique interest of scenery writing to the extreme. "... my heart is a little thin and desolate because of the messy voice of rural businessmen floating in the ferry." The faint reflection and support touched my heart ... every scene painted a charming picture.
poetic sentiment
In the process of creation, Mr. Shen moved from the countryside to the big cities, and hated the decadent life of the upper class and the "vulgar, stingy and selfish philistine" of the city people, which triggered his homesickness and inspired his nostalgia for the simple folk customs of his hometown that had not been completely destroyed by modern material civilization.
However, even in Xiangxi, in the expansion and backlog of material civilization, that simple folk custom is disappearing. Mr. Shen said in "Long River Inscription": "I was in my hometown for eighteen years, and when I entered the Chen River Valley, everything was different. On the surface, everything has naturally made great progress. If you try to pay close attention, you will see the tendency of degeneration in the process of change. The most obvious thing, that is, the integrity, simplicity and beauty of human nature that rural society has always maintained, is almost disappearing, replaced by a pragmatic and mercenary outlook on life that has been successfully cultivated in the real society in the past 20 years. " It can be seen that the kind of life described in Border Town cannot escape the fate of being replaced. Mr. Wang Zengqi once said in his comments: "Border Town is a nostalgic work, a kind of nostalgia with regret. Border Town is a warm work, but there is a deep sense of tragedy behind it. " However, even if some things fade away in the passage of time, what remains in Mr. Shen's heart is his persistence in beauty and his affirmation and admiration of true and pure character, which is lasting.
Mr. Shen himself once said, "... or I can only give them a little nostalgia, or I can only give them a wry smile, or I will give them a nightmare, but at the same time, maybe I can give them a kind of courage and confidence!" "
And Mr. Shen, who can write such a beautiful article, is full of persistence in beauty.
On one occasion, because of class struggle, Mr. Shen's generation of literary giants were sent to May 7th Cadre School to clean toilets. What a tragic experience this is. Mr. Shen Congwen, on the other hand, is detached from things and allows himself to live in an aesthetic state. In a letter to a friend, he said, "The lotus flowers here are really blooming well." Under such conditions, he should feel resentful, but his eyes are full of lotus-like beauty, which shows that his thoughts have not been eroded by the ups and downs of life, but have filtered out cunning and evil with the filter of his heart and gained the clarity and purity of his inner world. Mr. Shen Congwen chose to always look at the world with a pair of transparent eyes, a peaceful mind and a calm attitude. With transcendental aesthetics, he described the border town in his works as a scenic spot with beautiful mountains, water and people, which came out of a backward, closed and poor place.
The storm is refreshing, and the moon is refreshing. In that era of sharp and prominent class struggle, Shen Congwen used his own strokes to break the heavy haze of surging class struggle in society and people's hearts, worn out time, and sent a cry and appeal to the world for goodness, beauty and light.
Border Town is both realistic and romantic. It uses the most realistic love of beauty and the most romantic pursuit to freeze everything in every touching moment. Snowy branches and oranges. Treasure a kind of beauty with the most touching gesture and let it bloom forever in the passage of time, which is enough to awaken the pursuit of beauty in everyone who approaches it.