"Everything has a fortuitous coincidence, but the result is like the inevitability of fate."
——— "Border City"
This is Shen Congwen's masterpiece and a classic work depicting love. The whole work is beautiful and charming, the beauty of landscapes, the beauty of human nature, the beauty of love.
What pervades the entire book is a faint sadness, different from Kawabata Yasunari's calmness, but another kind of plainness. Quietly like the unitary water flowing in the tea pot for generations, it has sent away the most simple and kind people of generations, witnessed the most simple and true sorrow and joy, and now, they are gone, but only this river slowly tells the vows and promises of the past.
Both Tianbao and Douzu are in love with Cuicui, and Cuicui loves Cuizui in her heart. When Tianbao knew the fact of this love triangle, he knew that he could not reluctantly, took the initiative to quit the competition, drove the boat to Chenzhou, forgot about the matter here, but was killed, although he loved Cuicui, but his brother lost it so that he was depressed, and he misunderstood the old boatman, and also left, leaving Cuicui alone to bear all these changes.
It has always been a pity that if Cuicui had bravely said love, would everything be different. She and Dai Mingming are in love and can have so many opportunities together, but every coincidence event is pushing this love to a tragic fate.
Cuicui was still waiting for the person he had loved at the right age, and the collapsed white tower was repaired again, but the young man who had sung under the moon made Cuicui float his soul gently for the song in his sleep had not yet returned to the tea valley.
If we pay, will we definitely reap? If we face it sincerely, will we be happy? If you fall in love, will your vows and promises come true?
Regarding love, many times I will feel that the old man of the moon is sometimes confused, otherwise how can there be so many emotional entanglements in the world. Will one day, he will also lead the red line randomly, and provoke the world to entangle the heart for a while? The beautiful and kind Cuicui must have been confused by the confused Elder Moon, and since the end of the red thread was tied to the heart of the sender, why should she say it and tianbao listened.
Love is the luck of the flowing years.
