In the morning, I was bored, so I casually revisited Shen Congwen's Border Town. Although I read it several times, I still couldn't help but feel tears when I read it again.
At the end:
But in winter, the collapsed white tower was repaired again. The young man who sang under the moon and made Cuicui gently float his soul for singing in his sleep has not returned to the cave.
...
This person may never come back, maybe "tomorrow"!
It reminds me of the ninety-eighth reading of A Dream of Red Mansions. After Daiyu's death, Baoyu was heartbroken and went to a magical place in a trance:
"This is Yinquan Road. You didn't die. Why did you end up here?"
"I heard that an old friend had died, so I searched here and didn't feel lost."
"who is the old friend?"
"Gu Su Lin Daiyu."
Language has temperature and power. Some people are born to play with language. A few words can best hit the softness of readers' hearts.
Shen Congwen (192-1988), formerly known as Shen Yuehuan, was born in Fenghuang, Hunan, a famous writer and researcher of historical relics in China.
when I was in college, I took a course called Shen Congwen and his local literature research. The course was not good enough, but I still have three puzzles until now.
the mystery of creation. Shen Congwen has written many works in his life, but the only one that really makes people applaud is Border Town. Nevertheless, he was nominated by the Nobel Prize for Literature twice, so he should be said to be a very talented writer. However, in the later period, he may be forced by the pressure of the times to give up his creation and devote himself to the study of cultural relics, and he has actually done well. Scholars have their own character.
the mystery of Xiangxi. Just reading Border Town, you will be attracted by the ethereal, pure, beautiful and simple water city Xiangxi written by Shen Congwen, and feel that it is a paradise, so you must go and see it. However, I clearly remember that when the university teacher talked about the world of Xiangxi, he introduced us in detail the techniques of corpse driving in Xiangxi, which was well organized. Later, I also collected some information, which seemed to be true and mysterious.
the mystery of love. The love story between Shen Congwen, a poor boy in the countryside, and Zhang Zhaohe, a good family, was once passed down as a much-told story in the literary world. Shen's love letters and love words to his wife are even sweeter.
"I have walked many roads, crossed many bridges, seen many clouds and drank many kinds of wine, but I only loved a person at the right age."
However, the eight-year extramarital affair between Shen Congwen and Gao Qingzi has been circulating among the people. All these affairs of literati should be discussed after dinner, and there is no intention to make textual research.
The philosopher Schopenhauer once said that there are three kinds of tragedies. The first one is because there is a bad person. The second is because of emergencies; Third, everyone is right, only because of different positions and personalities, tragedies occur. Border Town belongs to the third category.
In the vicinity of Chadong, a remote town at the junction of Sichuan and Hunan, Cui Cui, the hero, his grandfather and a yellow dog live on a ferry. Shunshun, the Zhangshui Wharf in Tea Cave, has two outstanding sons, Tianbao and Nuo Song.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, Cuicui went to watch the dragon boat race and met a duck catcher to send her off.
"Those who cut off their skulls in times of conflict."
"You don't want to go up. Stay here. When the big fish comes to bite you, don't shout."
"When we first met at Jinling Ferry, we missed Yang Guo for life." After many years, Cui Cui has never forgotten to scare people with "big fish to bite you".
Coincidentally, my brother Tianbao also fell in love with Cuicui, who is hardworking and clever, and went to ask someone to kiss him first. The two brothers are going to make their minds clear. Tianbao said that he had a crush on Cuicui a year ago, and Nuo sent that he loved Cuicui from the beginning of their meeting two years ago. The two brothers decided to follow the old boatman's proposal and go across the river to sing love songs for Cui Cui for three years and six months. Whoever Cui Cui picks up first will win.
Tianbao knew that he had lost as soon as he spoke with a nice voice.
Cui Cui later told her grandpa that she had a dream that night, in which someone lifted her soul with singing, and picked a lot of Saxifraga all the way to the opposite mountain.
Tianbao didn't want his brother to be embarrassed, so he sailed far the next day, met with natural disasters and was buried in the water. Nuo sent out the Baihe River and walked six hundred miles in Xiachenzhou, but he didn't find his brother's body.
Nuo Song fell into deep remorse. He could give up the dowry of the general mill of Zhongzhai Tuan and choose only a shabby ferry, but he could not ignore his brother's death and stay with Cuicui with peace of mind, so he chose to run away.
On a thunderstorm night, the white tower fell, and the boat ran away. Grandpa died, leaving only Cuicui and the yellow dog guarding the ferry, waiting for the person who didn't know whether he would come back.
There is not a bad person in the whole book, and everyone is so pure, beautiful and kind. But it is this group of kind people who together contributed to this tragedy.
"who is it?"
"It's Cuicui!"
"who is Cui Cui?"
"It's the granddaughter of Bixi Village supporting the ferry."
What are you doing here?
"I'll wait for my grandpa. I'll wait for him to come. "