1. Border towns
Border Town is Shen Congwen's masterpiece and novella, which has established its important position in the history of literature. This book entrusts the author's aesthetic ideals about "beauty" and "love", and it is a work that can better express the beauty of human nature. Based on the tea cave in the border town of Sichuan and Hunan in the 1930s, the novel depicts the simple world, folk customs and natural living conditions of the border town of western Hunan with the beautiful brushwork of lyric poetry and prose. The book consists of 2 1 chapters, and each chapter is like a thick or light ink painting, which shows a "beautiful, healthy, natural and human life form" in simple and fresh language.
This is a light and beautiful novel, which is not as turbulent and contradictory as the novels we usually read, and gives a colorful description of the conflict. It is extremely light and heavy, although it uses plain and ordinary tones, but it contains deep sadness and is shocking.
I have no other wish except to love you.
This book is divided into two parts: Travel Notes in Hunan and I have no other wish but to love you. Shen Congwen and his wife Zhang Zhaohe had to return to Xiangxi soon after their marriage because their mother was ill. On his way to see his wife, he wrote to her every day. He wrote beautiful scenery, stories and customs along the way in a rickety boat on the river, but he wrote more about unbearable acacia. This letter in "Xiangxing Letters" is the author's own touching love. Describe young men and women in rural areas and cities, and explain the taste of love, which is ignorant, implicit, long, bitter and warm. ...
Introduction to Shen Congwen: Shen Congwen, formerly known as Shen Yuehuan, formerly known as Maolin, whose name is Chongwen, pen name Xiu and Xuanruo. He is a native of Fenghuang County, Hunan Province, a famous writer and researcher of historical relics in China. Joined the army at the age of 14 and roamed the Hunan-Sichuan-Guizhou border region. /kloc-started his literary creation in 0/924. He taught at the National Qingdao University from193/to 1933. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he went to teach at the National Southwest Associated University. 1946 returned to Peking University to teach. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he worked in the Museum of Chinese History and the Institute of History of China Academy of Social Sciences, mainly engaged in the study of ancient history and cultural relics in China. He died in Beijing on1May 1988 10 at the age of 86.