2. Cui Cui is the embodiment and acme of the beautiful humanity and life that Shen Congwen yearns for. This girl from Xiangxi is the granddaughter of the old man on the ferry. Her grandparents and grandchildren lived together on the ferry for a long time. Green mountains and green waters, antique environment, created a clear and transparent personality of Cui Cui. She is beautiful, passionate, naive, never worried, never angry. Since she was a child, she often watched the old man bring a cup of herbal tea to those tired travelers, even without transitional reward, and lived a diligent and quiet life. As the years passed, Cui Cui's emotions also changed. The author shows the girl's love in The Seeds of Love. She likes watching the bride's sedan chair, putting a wild flower in her hair, and listening to people singing, because she met the boatman's son, Nuo, in a dragon boat race and has a crush on her ever since. At this point, the author shows readers the awakening and budding of Cui Cui's youth, the hazy vision and the beautiful mentality of a shy girl, showing the extremely beautiful side of the world. However, after Nuo was sent away and the old ferryman died suddenly, he guarded the ferry with the feelings of mourning his grandfather and missing his lover. Although she is lost, she still holds expectations. Although Nuo was sent away, "this person may never come back, maybe tomorrow's mine", he still lived and waited calmly in the traditional way. The author through this image, especially through this character in
The attitude in Love Life depicts a kind of pure and beautiful feelings in the world, eulogizes the humanity and life symbolizing love and beauty, and "makes an appropriate explanation for the word' love' for mankind".