Border Town is a novella created by Shen Congwen, first published on 1934.
Based on the tea cave in the border town of Sichuan and Hunan in the 1930s, the novel depicts the unique style of Xiangxi with beautiful brushwork of lyric and essays. The pure love story of Cui Cui, a boatman girl, shows the goodness and beauty of human nature. Due to the aesthetic art of Border Town, the novel Border Town has a unique position in the history of modern literature in China.
Evaluation of works
Pan, a professor of Chinese Department of Fudan University, said: The poetry of Border Town first comes from the strong local flavor of Xiangxi. 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 near the mountain and the water, the diaojiao building on Linhe Street, the ferry crossing climbing the cable, the white pagoda related to the "Feng Shui" in the teahouse, and the birds singing in the dark green bamboo raft. ...
These landscapes with local colors are natural and beautiful, beautiful without heavy colors.