Cui Cui is the sustenance of the author's ideal life form and ideal love form. It is the author who has devoted his ideal artistic image of "love" and "beauty". Because Cui Cui grew up in a beautiful border town, she was in contact with people with simple folk customs. Therefore, Cui Cui is not influenced by the secular, and her personality is naive. When she was teased, she believed it. Grandpa cleverly concealed his love for promise when testing her heart for promise.
Although Cui Cui and grandpa have deep feelings, Cui Cui seems to have no one to really talk to. Because grandpa's age is very different from Cui Cui's, I can't really understand Cui Cui's girlish feelings. After grandpa died, Cui Cui's life became more lonely. Her love was fruitless, and all her relatives left, so Cui Cui was lonely inside.
Brief introduction to novels
Border Town is a novella created by Shen Congwen, first published on 1934. Based on the tea cave in the border town of Sichuan and Hunan in the 1930s, the novel depicts the unique style of Xiangxi with beautiful brushwork of lyric and essays. The pure love story of Cui Cui, a boatman girl, shows the goodness and beauty of human nature. Due to the aesthetic art of Border Town, the novel Border Town has a unique position in the history of modern literature in China.
Border Town has entrusted Shen Congwen's aesthetic ideals of "beauty" and "love", and it is the novel that can best express the beauty of human nature in his works. Border Town eulogizes the virtues preserved to this day in traditional culture, which is relative to the destruction of traditional virtues in modern society and the shallowness, vulgarity and corruption of materialism and monetarism everywhere. Xiangxi described in Border Town has beautiful natural scenery and simple folk customs. People don't talk about rank or utility. People treat each other sincerely and love each other.