There is a girl named Cui Cui in a wool shop in luxi county. She is very handsome, with vivid big eyes and delicate lips, which deeply attracts a man's attention. The man fell in love with her at first sight and immediately vowed to marry her.
A gifted scholar and a beautiful woman finally got married, but it didn't last long. Beautiful Cui Cui left her father and daughter and died shortly after giving birth to her daughter Xiaocui.
Another person has heard of Cui Cui's beauty. Many years later, he sailed through Luxi and landed there temporarily. A woman came running with a smile and a jump. She is very similar to Cui Cui. This amazing similarity surprised men's eyes. He stood on the shore for a long time. It turns out that she is Cui Cui's daughter Xiaocui.
The man who met Xiaocui was the writer Shen Congwen, the wife of his friend Zhao, who accompanied him in the March.
1933, Mr. Shen Congwen was sitting in his yard. Mottled shadows fell sparsely on the paper, and Mr. Wang was bathed in the warm sunshine. The breeze gently blows the treetops overhead, and the shadows sway leisurely on the paper. The image of his good friend Zhao's wife suddenly appeared in his mind and stayed there for a long time. Thus, there is Border Town, which ranks second among China 100 novels in the 20th century.
Mr. Shen Congwen wrote in My Wife's Notes on Xiangxing: "When I wrote The Story of Border Town, the gentle character of my granddaughter Minghui who worked on the ferry was born out of the girl in the wool shop."
The time when Mr. Shen Congwen wrote Border Town was a slightly turbulent but peaceful time. Numerous scholars are thinking about the country and human nature. Mr. Shen Congwen is one of them. He thinks about the essence of human nature and loves the goodness and authenticity of human nature.
He tried to show people the beauty, kindness and simplicity of human nature with a work. This novel is Border Town, which tells the characters and their lives in a small town in the border town of Sichuan and Hunan.
Living in contemporary China, most people's daily life is no longer at sunrise, but at sunset. But from nine to five, even working overtime, hugging has naturally become the greatest luxury.
In this rhythm, love seems to have lost its original flavor.
The small town tea cave described in Border Town is a peaceful and quiet place, and the lifestyle of people here now seems distant and strange. In the tea cave, in that beautiful paradise, how pure and beautiful the love story is, and how intoxicating it is.
Tianbao and Nuosong are two sons of Shunshun family. Brother Tianbao is more like their father. He is strong, loyal and enthusiastic. My brother's gift is handsome in appearance and more active in thought.
They are two years apart, almost at the same time reaching the age of "Seeds of Love".
Cui Cui is the granddaughter of the old ferryman. Her father and grandson live with a yellow dog. Although poor, they are very happy. Cui Cui helps grandpa ferry every day. Her skin is tanned, but her eyes are bright, lively and lovely.
The hero feels sorry for Meirenguan, and two brothers from well-off families fall in love with Jasper and Cui Cui from poor families.
My brother asked someone to talk to the old man on the ferry. He chose the traditional way, obeyed his parents' orders and asked the matchmaker to propose marriage to his sweetheart's elders.
My younger brother, Northon, has been taken a fancy to by a family as well as him, and plans to marry his daughter, and has also prepared a new mill as a dowry. A mill was a very expensive dowry at that time, and most young people living in teahouses could hardly resist the temptation. But Northon only wants the ferry and has no feelings for the mill. He fell in love with Cui Cui.
This is a love triangle, and the three people who love each other don't know what they are doing, and they all leave. They interpret love and humanity in their own way.
Tianbao and Northrop finally saw each other's thoughts. In Xiangxi at that time, if two men fell in love with a woman at the same time, it was necessary to have a competition, and the winner was qualified to win the beauty's heart.
Tianbao and Nuosong refused to play and decided to sing as a way of competition. Whoever touches Cui Cui's heart with love songs first will win back the beauty.
When it comes to singing, Tianbao's voice is much worse than that of tea. In order to be fair, he sang all the love songs proposed by Nuosong, and won with the advantage of singing. He felt that he could not win without force. However, Tianbao insisted on refusing to ask others to replace it. Is it aboveboard?
However, Cui Cui's heart has been promised a gift. When we first met at the Dragon Boat Festival a few years ago, that kind and free gift made Cui Cui feel blushing and heartbroken, and tasted the sweetness of love.
The love triangle couldn't get a happy ending anyway, and my brother Tianbao chose to leave. In the face of affection, he could not bear to turn against his brother. In the face of love, he can't watch his sweetheart marry another woman.
My brother gave it to me, and after my brother left, he stopped the love song at night. Love makes him yearn for it, but affection makes him unable to accept his happiness.
Cui Cui is simple, lovely and innocent. Whether seeing the figure or hearing the sound of promise, it made her fawn bump and her heart beat faster. Love grows in her heart and blooms on her face. She can't hide her inner age, trying to hide a love. She has never said anything about her promise. A blush is worth a thousand words.
Selfishness, flattery, jealousy and arrogance, which are very easy to appear in love triangle, have not appeared in them. What we see is concession, fulfillment, generosity and kindness.
Tianbao accidentally fell into the water and lost his life. Nuo was sent away from the town and went to Taoyuan. Grandpa has returned to the west, leaving only Cui Cui to watch the ferry, waiting for the man who opened her heart himself for a long time.
Good people should have such pure love. If there are people like Cui Cui in the world, please don't let time pass, please give a happy ending to long-term love!
Until the end of the novel, you can't seem to taste the character Yang.
At the beginning of the novel, I went to the city with my grandfather to watch the excitement of the Dragon Boat Festival, and Yang stayed in a quiet town to guard the ferry for them. After Tianbao saw it, he begged Yang to talk to his grandfather for him. Later, the news of Tianbao's accidental drowning was also conveyed to his grandfather by Yang. When Tianbao's father fell into the pain of bereavement and was indifferent to his grandfather, it was Yang who was listening to the voice of the neglected old man.
Most importantly, when his grandfather died, Yang stayed with him instead and gave him a shoulder to lean on.
Yang told the story of grandpa, his mother and father. Cui Cui knows some of these stories, but more are unheard of.
It turned out to be another kind of love that I don't know what it is. It turns out that Yang is such a spoony man who can't fall in love, so it will make the person you love stable for life.
Yang fell in love with his mother for the first time, but he didn't get the love of his sweetheart. He never married. I'm not sure if he realizes that he missed his life for love, but he did give everything for love.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, he stayed alone in the quiet tea cave town, just for Cui Cui and grandpa to go to the city to enjoy the excitement and prosperity. From the moment he met Cui Cui's mother, he was doomed to be lonely all his life. His love songs were not answered, and his burning heart was not loved by beautiful women. He buried his love deep in his heart. After Cui Cui's mother died, he became the guardian of Cui Cui and grandpa, old and young.
His love for Cui Cui's mother was passed on to his two grandchildren. Besides Cui Cui's grandfather, he loves Cui Cui the most in the world. Although Cui Cui is the child of his sweetheart with another man, although that man killed Cui Cui's mother.
It was not until the end of the novel that I understood what Yang meant. Go back and see what he has done. At first glance, he didn't pay attention. When he paid attention again, he found that he was full of affection.
Cui Cui and Nuosongben are congenial, but the existence of Tianbao broke Cui Cui's hazy dream of love. The emotional entanglement of three people makes people feel sorry, but not sad.
In this love triangle, they show the nobility and beauty of human nature to the fullest. No matter whether love is perfect or not, no matter whether Cui Cui finally comes, I don't think time will mistreat such a clear human nature. Cui Cui and promise have sent away the rest of their lives, and they will spend it with or without love.
In our time, love seems to be mixed with too many practical considerations. Family, income, appearance and social resources, these hard indicators span between marriageable men and women. I'm not sure how much room there is for love.
When love is threatened, it seems easy for people to expose the ugly side of human nature. Jealousy, ostentation, and conspiracy all put evil on the smooth road in the name of love.
The love triangle of Cui Cui, Nuosong and Tianbao tells us that a beautiful love should never have impurities, and only kind people can create pure love.
Looking at Yang Mabing again and reading about him reminds me of Snape in Harry Potter, the man who guarded Harry all his life.
Snape fell in love with Harry's mother Lily when he was young, but he was so clumsy emotionally that he didn't know how to express his love. The phrase "mudblood" not only made his love hopeless, but also ended his friendship with Lily forever because of those three words.
Snape didn't get Lily's love, but after Lily and her husband Zhan Mu both died, he tried his best to protect their only son Harry.
Snape is kind, he just doesn't know how to be kind to the people he loves. No matter for his beloved girl Lily or Harry who loves me deeply, he never expressed his love in words, but he explained everything with his actions.
Similarly, Yang's singing failed to win the love of his sweetheart. However, like Snape, he has no resentment or jealousy in the face of the status quo that he cannot love. It's that he keeps love, continues to love his loved ones for their loved ones, and guards them.
Yang's Guardian also tells us that good love is never taking, but giving. Even if the other person doesn't feel it, he should be worthy of the pure love in his heart.
"Border Town" tells such a group of simple people, and it brings us an interpretation of pure love, which makes people feel beautiful and full of yearning. Although there is a touch of sadness in the middle, what is finally displayed to people is the nobility and kindness of human nature.
If Mr. Shen Congwen wrote Border Town with the ideals of "beauty" and "love", then he is undoubtedly successful.
In modern society, most people live in reinforced concrete cities. What you can reach out and touch is not the flowers and plants all over the mountains, but the cold Shi Zhuan; What you can see in the distance is not a mountain, but a tall building that blocks the line of sight; What you can smell by deep breathing is not the freshness brought by water mist, but the particles and dust brought by pollution.
After staying in a city far away from nature for a long time, you really should read a work like Border Town, so that your soul can return once and brush off a layer of dust for the spirit covered with impurities.
Only when pure love meets shining humanity can it shine brilliantly, which is the brilliance of love and humanity.
It is everyone's wish to love someone for life. However, when I can't get it, I will stick to my love. This is a kind of lonely love, sad and beautiful.
I wish our contemporary society more lovely and pure girls, more kind and simple boys like Tianbao and Nuo, more loyal and enthusiastic old people like Grandpa, and more loyal and reliable men like Yang.
Lying cat: It's better to lie standing and sitting. I am a lazy cat who likes reading and writing.