Accumulated excerpts from Shen Congwen's Border Town 1000 words.

1 Tea Cave is built by mountains and water. On the side near the mountain, the wall climbed up the mountain like a long snake. On the waterfront side, there is room to set up a pier by the river outside the city. A river street runs through each pier. More than half of the houses are on land and half are in water. Because the rooms are limited, those houses are equipped with diaojiao buildings. Close to the water tower, the moon comes first, and peach blossoms and apricot blossoms are in the majority. In spring, you just need to pay attention. Where there are peach blossoms, there must be people, and where there are people, you can sell wine. In summer, dazzling purple cloth and trousers are dried in the sun and can be used as flags of others. Autumn and winter are coming, and the house is conspicuous on the cliff and by the water. Yellow walls and black tiles are always placed in a suitable position, which is in harmony with the surrounding environment and makes people feel very happy. A traveler who is slightly interested in poetry and painting will not be bored by squatting in a boat in this river for 30 days. Just because there are miracles everywhere, the boldness and exquisiteness of nature are fascinating.

The stream flows down the river, around the mountain, and joins the river in the tea cave for about three miles. If people walk across the stream and climb over the hill, they will reach the edge of Tea Cave City, which is only a mile away. The stream is like a bow, and the mountain road is like a bowstring. There is a slight difference between distance and distance. This stream is about 20 feet wide, and the riverbed is made of big stones. Still water, even if it is too deep to sink, is still clear and transparent, and the fish in the middle reaches of the river can be counted. The stream is a tunnel between Sichuan and Hunan, and the water often fluctuates. Due to the shortage of funds, a square ferry was arranged. On a sunny day, there was no transition, and the town was long and idle, so Grandpa and Cui Cui sat in the sun on the big stone in front of the door. Or throw a piece of wood into the water from a height, let the yellow dog around jump down from the height of the rock and return the wood title. Or Cui Cui and Huang Gou are pricking up their ears in the city to listen to my grandfather's talk about war stories many years ago. Or my grandfather and Cui Cui, each with a bamboo clarinet, played a song to greet the bride and put the girl to her mouth. Fish come and go in the water as if they were floating in the air. There are many mountains on both sides of the strait, and there are many fine bamboos in the mountains, which can make paper. They are dark green all year round and stand out. Close to the water tower, the moon comes first, and peach blossoms and apricot blossoms are in the majority. In spring, you just need to pay attention. Where there are peach blossoms, there must be people, and where there are people, you can sell wine. In summer, dazzling purple cloth and trousers are dried in the sun and can be used as flags of others. Autumn and winter are coming, and the houses on the cliff and the water bank are in front of us. Yellow walls and black tiles are always in a suitable position, which is extremely harmonious with the surrounding environment and makes people feel very happy.