Don't let me talk about Lao She, then I will talk about Shen Congwen

I don't dare to talk about Lao She because if I talk about Lao She, someone will always come to shoot me. I have nowhere to hide. So I simply don't talk about Lao She - although I want to talk about it so much, I can only give up.

Shen Congwen is a Beijing-style writer, but he is very contrary to scholars such as Jin Yuelin and Liang Sicheng, and it is not the same as Li Jianwu's style. Shen Congwen's body, stubbornly carrying his Xiangxi bandit qi (note, not earthy), but acted as if the morning fog had passed.

In this article, I want to praise the subtlety of Shen Congwen's words and sentences.

The beginning of Border City:

From Sichuan to Hunan, there is an official road to the east. When the official road approached the border of western Hunan to a small mountain town called "Cha Tong", there was a small stream with a small white tower by the stream, and under the tower lived a single family. There was only an old man, a girl, and a yellow dog. The stream flows down, around the mountain, and about three miles joins the great river of Cha Tong. If one crosses the creek and crosses the hill, one will only be one mile away from the edge of Cha Tong City.

For a hundred years, many people have praised the goodness of this paragraph. How good is it? No rhetoric, no tricks. But if you write a novel, your beginning, if you can write half of it, is your skill.

A bit of classical charm: city, stream, white tower, people; old people, girls, yellow dogs.

Wang Zengqi has this skill, Wang Zengqi is a student of Shen Congwen; Jia Pingwo has this skill (Shangzhou series), but Teacher Jia is younger than Wang Lao, and he is a generation behind.

Many people read border city, always calm and good - I did not see its beauty, but I saw its gangsterism, did not accept the rebuttal. This note.