"Border City", this is a book that depicts all the most true, good, and beautiful things in people's hearts. The beautiful chazhi small mountain town brings the beautiful green mountains and green waters of Xiangxi to life, as if we are in a paradise-like life, where people work at sunrise and rest at sunset. Of course, there is indispensable pure love in this, and it is also the simple folk style of Xiangxi that is vividly reflected.
01, the beauty of xanadu
In fact, this book does not use too many adjectives to describe the beauty of this small town on the west side of Hunan Province, but indeed shows the exceptional beauty of the scenery through simple and simple words, which is combined with the simple folk customs of Western Hunan to present us with a paradise-like life.
The beauty of paradise lies in its unique geographical location and the environment of green mountains and green waters, which allows us to enter the scenery with affection and also into the scenery, and the combination of the two brings us the beauty of the paradise.
"From Sichuan to Hunan, there is an official road to the east. This official road is close to the border of western Hunan Province, and when we arrive at a small mountain town called "Cha Tong", there is a small stream, and there is a small white tower by the stream, and a single family lives under the tower. ”
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. Streams are like bowbacks, and mountain roads are like bowstrings, so there are small differences between near and far. The creek is about twenty meters wide, and the riverbed is made of large stones. The quiet water may be so deep that it cannot fall to the bottom, but it is still clear and transparent, and the fish in the middle of the river can be counted.
Mr. Shen Congwen depicted the scenery as if he were in front of his eyes through the ten words "the stream is like a bow's back, and the mountain road is like a bow string", and also explained the role of the stream, and laid the foreshadowing for the ferry behind.
"The quiet water is so deep that it cannot fall to the bottom, but it is still clear and transparent, and the fish in the middle of the river can be counted." The beautiful water at that time seemed to jump on the paper, we could feel the clarity of the water, and a meandering and clear stream appeared in front of us.
Whether it is from the geographical location or the environment at that time, here is the paradise-like life that our modern people yearn for, although life will still be difficult, but compared to the pressure of modern people's lives, this may be the paradise that many people have dreamed of for a long time, where people's hearts can be as quiet as a stream, and clear to the bottom. Although I have not yet died after reading, I have been fascinated for a long time, and it can wash and purify our hearts and forget all the complexities.
02, the most beautiful town in memory
Our feeling of the small town in the novel is the hometown of childhood, this novel writes the small town in our hearts into our bone marrow, although everything is on paper, but it seems that our soul has reached the small town we yearn for, although as we grow older, we may have forgotten the small town in our minds, and may not be so deeply impressed, but with the reading of the novel here, we can feel the feeling of being more timid.
The people of Chatong Town are familiar, and all this seems to make us return to the countryside of our childhood, everything is familiar, but everything seems to be a little strange.
The beauty of Chatong Town lies in the beauty of his four seasons, we can all find it from the words bit by bit, but what we can't forget is the beauty of the verdant dreamland, which combines the beauty of love with the perfect scenery of the time, so that we can't forget it for a long time.
The most beautiful town is also its unchanged, where small restaurants, grocery stores, etc. are like the small shops of our childhood, it has always existed, and we can always recall all the beauty of childhood from it.
The beauty of the small city lies in the beauty of its growth, although people are growing with age, but everything here seems to be constantly changing and growing, everything is the same, when it seems that everything is the same as before. This may be another beauty of the tea pot.
03 Simple love
Simple love, expressed in this novel is the most simple feelings, the simple feelings between people in small towns, of course, also showed people's escape from feelings at that time.
The feelings here are mainly divided into several parts, the first part is the poignant love of Cuicui's parents that is first expressed, after the father goes, the mother bears the burden of humiliation and gives birth to the child, and also follows. Leaving Cuicui and the old boatman to live together.
If Cuicui's parents are people living in modern times, they may have eloped and lived a happy life with Cuicui as a family of three, of course, it may not be a happy life. This also vividly described the slightly narrow-mindedness of people at that time and the shyness of treating feelings, of course, everything was caused by the lack of knowledge of the environment and people who were in contact with people at that time.
The second part is Cuicui's love, which is beautiful and carries the dreams of many young girls. But what I want to say is that based on Cuicui's life background, the old boatman cannot make choices for a young girl who is immersed in love, especially the choice of love in the next generation, of course, the old boatman cannot communicate with Cuicui, the girl who has just opened her heart. If the old boatman can communicate with Cuicui to the modern era, then Cuicui will make a choice early, even if Tianbao's accident occurs, Hezu will still be with Cuicui, of course, if it changes, it may not be able to present such a wonderful story.
The third part is the simple folk customs, although there is no simple folk customs written here, but through everything between the lines of the words to show the simple folk customs, so that you seem to be in that era, everything is as it should be, can not refute and can not change the simple folk customs.
"Border City" this novel I have read several times, the most favorite is actually the rural atmosphere of the era at that time, as if everything can be returned to memory, the simple emotions of that time let us in the materialistic modern era more thinking, whether it is the change of knowledge that affects modern feelings, or the flood of people's feelings is no longer simple.
At that time, how people's hearts were thinking, how they looked at things, all of this brought us too much thinking, I just want to read it a few more times, let my mind calm down, as if sitting by the stream watching the fish swimming in the river to count.
"This man may never come back, maybe "tomorrow" come back! "Are we coming back 'tomorrow'? Or never come back, it depends on our hearts, whether we yearn for this simple emotion, whether we choose to respect our own hearts, this is the choice we need to make after reading the book.