Hunan Girl Xiao Xiao
by Shen Congwen
About This Novel
In Shen Congwen's novel world, women are the most important artistic images, and the women in western Hunan are the most successfully portrayed. The women in Xiangxi described by Shen Congwen have several different temperaments or destinies: one is the beautiful Xiangxi girl who absorbs the aura of the mountains and rivers, is intelligent, clean and simple, thus forming the "softest core" of Xiangxi described by Shen Congwen. Cuicui, who is as clear as water in "Border Town", and Yaoyao, who is smart and capable in "The Long River", both fall into this category. In this chapter, the naughty and clever San San and Jiumei, Ah Hei in "Youfang", the bold and brave childhood Song Ma in "The Story of Wild Boar Hunting", and the quiet and melancholy Yue Min in "Quiet" also fall into this category.
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It tells the story of the sexual enlightenment, sexual development, and sexual repression of a fifteen-year-old girl in a small town in western Hunan. The entire film criticizes the suppression of female sexual instincts and yearning for the free world outside by traditional moral education on the level of historical reflection.
The heroine Xiao Xiao was exposed to explicit or implicit accusations from the outside world in a specific regional environment, and she surrendered her instinctive desires as a woman to reason or social dogma, and eventually became another silent victim in the feudal patriarchal society.
Xiao Xiao's identity is actually what we call a child bride. Since she has been fostered in her uncle's village since she was a child, she did not seem very sad when she got married at the age of twelve. When she was young, she got married, and her husband was only a three-year-old boy.
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Official(3)Scraped 16d ago
It tells the story of the sexual enlightenment, sexual development, and sexual repression of a fifteen-year-old girl in a small town in western Hunan. The entire film criticizes the suppression of female sexual instincts and yearning for the free world outside by traditional moral education on the level of historical reflection.
The heroine Xiao Xiao was exposed to explicit or implicit accusations from the outside world in a specific regional environment, and she surrendered her instinctive desires as a woman to reason or social dogma, and eventually became another silent victim in the feudal patriarchal society.
Xiao Xiao's identity is actually what we call a child bride. Since she has been fostered in her uncle's village since she was a child, she did not seem very sad when she got married at the age of twelve. When she was young, she got married, and her husband was only a three-year-old boy.
