Border Town
by Shen Congwen
About This Novel
"Border Town" is Shen Congwen's masterpiece and a novella. This book established its important position in the history of literature in one fell swoop. The book entrusts the author's aesthetic ideals of "beauty" and "love", and is a work that better expresses the beauty of human nature. The novel is set in Chadong, a border town at the junction of Sichuan and Hunan in the 1930s. It depicts the simple folk customs and natural living conditions of the border town in western Hunan with a beautiful style that combines lyric poetry and essays. There are a total of twenty-one chapters in the book, each chapter is like a thick or light ink painting, using simple and fresh language to show a "beautiful, healthy, natural and not contrary to human nature".
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Official(53)Scraped 21d ago
border town
This book embodies a touch of sadness. The border town is remote, and Cuicui and her grandfather are lonely. In the decadent and dark China, Shen Congwen created a place where the folk customs are simple, everyone is equal, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, to replace the national soul of China, but the ending is sad.
This book is a bit uncomfortable to read
The border town looks quite boring, maybe because the story takes place in such a long time ago and is so far away from modern life. But I still insisted on reading this novel.
You and I have no chance at all, we all rely on elective course 3_(:* ｣∠)_
The Chinese teacher asked me to read it, otherwise I rarely read novels on my mobile phone. Take a look
Don't like Cuicui
When I read Border Town before, I only thought the love between Nuo Song and Cuicui was beautiful. Looking back many years later, I still hate Cuicui. After the Dragon Boat Festival, Tianbao asked someone to talk to a matchmaker. Grandpa Cuicui asked her what she thought many times. At this time, she already knew that she liked Nuo Sui, but she never gave Tianbao an answer and just kept putting it off. Because she liked Nuo Song at this time, but she didn't know Nuo Song's intentions, and was worried that Nuo Song would marry the daughter of a squire. This is obviously using natural protection as a spare tire! She kept silent, and in the end, her grandfather was not a human being inside and outside!
Good reading, good reading, good reading, good reading.
Chapter One, Dragon Boat Festival, has been given a new meaning by the author in the novel. The two elders met Cuicui on that day, and the eldest elder met Cuicui on that day. Love begins on the Dragon Boat Festival, and the duck, an ordinary animal, is given a new meaning.
This book is good, but a little difficult to understand
Wow, I have wanted to see Border Town for a long time, and this time I can finally see it well. I really like the books written by Shen Congwen, they are very skinny.
The so-called high-class people claim to be elegant and filthy, while the so-called low-class people seem to be simple and simple ignorant people.
It is not surprising that the so-called desolateness of the upper class, which claims to be elegant, and the seemingly simple ignorance of the lower class, make people feel sadness, sorrow, or indignation.
Rating
Community(0)
Official(53)Scraped 21d ago
border town
This book embodies a touch of sadness. The border town is remote, and Cuicui and her grandfather are lonely. In the decadent and dark China, Shen Congwen created a place where the folk customs are simple, everyone is equal, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, to replace the national soul of China, but the ending is sad.
This book is a bit uncomfortable to read
The border town looks quite boring, maybe because the story takes place in such a long time ago and is so far away from modern life. But I still insisted on reading this novel.
You and I have no chance at all, we all rely on elective course 3_(:* ｣∠)_
The Chinese teacher asked me to read it, otherwise I rarely read novels on my mobile phone. Take a look
Don't like Cuicui
When I read Border Town before, I only thought the love between Nuo Song and Cuicui was beautiful. Looking back many years later, I still hate Cuicui. After the Dragon Boat Festival, Tianbao asked someone to talk to a matchmaker. Grandpa Cuicui asked her what she thought many times. At this time, she already knew that she liked Nuo Sui, but she never gave Tianbao an answer and just kept putting it off. Because she liked Nuo Song at this time, but she didn't know Nuo Song's intentions, and was worried that Nuo Song would marry the daughter of a squire. This is obviously using natural protection as a spare tire! She kept silent, and in the end, her grandfather was not a human being inside and outside!
Good reading, good reading, good reading, good reading.
Chapter One, Dragon Boat Festival, has been given a new meaning by the author in the novel. The two elders met Cuicui on that day, and the eldest elder met Cuicui on that day. Love begins on the Dragon Boat Festival, and the duck, an ordinary animal, is given a new meaning.
This book is good, but a little difficult to understand
Wow, I have wanted to see Border Town for a long time, and this time I can finally see it well. I really like the books written by Shen Congwen, they are very skinny.
The so-called high-class people claim to be elegant and filthy, while the so-called low-class people seem to be simple and simple ignorant people.
It is not surprising that the so-called desolateness of the upper class, which claims to be elegant, and the seemingly simple ignorance of the lower class, make people feel sadness, sorrow, or indignation.
