Analyze it The character image of Li Cuicui

Cuicui is the heroine in Shen Congwen's Border Town, and an ideal artistic image in which the author pours "love" and "beauty".

Cui Cui is a pure and lovely country girl and the embodiment of beauty. Her love story is a sad song, and she is a fleshy figure nurtured by the author's homesickness and nostalgia. The author also shows a ruthless criticism of "modern civilization" through the artistic image of Cuicui.

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Border Town, with the background of Chadong, a small town in the border town of Sichuan and Hunan in 193s, depicts the unique customs of western Hunan with beautiful brushwork of lyric poems and essays. The love tragedy of Cuicui, a boatman girl, highlights the goodness and beauty of human nature and the clarity and purity of the soul.

Cui Cui is the heroine in Shen Congwen's Border Town, and an ideal artistic image in which the author has devoted "love" and "beauty". Shen Congwen said in his wife, Water Clouds and other articles that Cuicui is composed of three archetypes: a little girl with wool, a country woman in Laoshan, Qingdao, and a bride beside her (namely, Mrs. Zhang Zhaohe).

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Cuicui