Border Town describes the beauty of scenery, feelings and characters in the border town of western Hunan. How many aspects does the author write about feelings?
"Border Town" shows us such a picture: "There is a small white tower beside a stream, and a family lives under it. There is only an old man, a girl and a yellow dog in this family. A small stream flows down the river, around the mountain, and flows into the tea cave river for about three miles. If people cross the stream and climb the hill, they will reach the edge of Tea Cave City within a mile. The stream is like a bow, and the mountain road is like a bowstring. There is a slight difference between distance and distance. This stream is about 20 feet wide, and the riverbed is made of big stones. Even if the quiet water is too deep to bottom, it is still clear and transparent, and the fish in the middle reaches of the river can be counted. "
In the novel, the crystal clear river, the small town near the mountain and the water, the diaojiao building on the river street, the ferry climbing the cable, the white tower related to the "Feng Shui" in the teahouse and the singing of birds in the dark green bamboo raft are all natural and beautiful, and the picturesque scenery makes people feel like they are in a dream, giving people beautiful enjoyment.
Second, the beauty of customs.
In Border Town, Shen Congwen painted a beautiful regional genre painting in Xiangxi in his childhood memory and ideal world. This genre painting is beautiful and exquisite, which contains the natural scenery, social customs, interpersonal relationships and human nature in the border areas of western Hunan, and accumulates profound and mysterious Chu culture.
Shen Congwen said: I want to show a "life form", a "beautiful, healthy and human life form." Therefore, there is a simple and fresh world in Border Town, a rural society close to "Xanadu", showing a kind and simple rural customs. Xiangxi in his works is like this: Mid-Autumn Festival, young men and women pour out their love in the form of duets in the moonlight; On the Dragon Boat Festival, every family locked their doors and went to the riverside and Diaojiao Building to watch the dragon boat race and participate in duck catching activities in the river. "whoever catches the duck will become the owner of the duck"; On the fifteenth day of the first month, the whole town was immersed in the joy of dancing dragons, playing lions and setting off fireworks.
People living in this atmosphere are simple and kind, and any tension here seems out of place.
In the rowing competition, the winning team can get a small silver medal. Outside the border town, there will always be people who care who will get it. But in the eyes of people in the border town, the silver medal wrapped around anyone on board shows the glory of cooperation among all the people on board. In the border town, there is no fame and fortune.
"Shen Congwen was born in Xiangxi, where Miao and Han people live together. He is most familiar with the local customs of this area. Not only familiar, but also loving. " Shi Zhecun said.
Third, the beauty of human nature
The people in the border town are "a group of good people who are not polluted by modern civilization". They have maintained a quiet and harmonious living environment and a simple and frugal ancient folk custom. Between the lines, we can feel Mr. Shen's efforts to build a paradise full of natural humanity. The characters he created shine with the frank, beautiful and pious side of humanity, and the people in the border town are the representatives of human beauty.