Scenery and people are in harmony, emotion and situation are in harmony - talk about the description of the scenery in "Border Town"
1. Description of the scenery, explain the time and place where the story takes place, and provide information for the characters to appear. stage background. The first sentence at the beginning of the text reads, "When dusk comes, Cuicui sits under the white pagoda behind the house at home, watching the sky being baked into thin peach-colored clouds by the setting sun." "Dusk" and "under the white pagoda behind the house at home" point out. It describes the specific time and space environment in which the heroine Cuicui lives. "Sunset" and "peach-colored thin clouds" outline a beautiful, quiet and peaceful poetic picture: "Look" pave the way for the psychological waves of the heroine below. What is worth pondering is the connotation of the image of "peach-colored thin clouds". In ancient Chinese poetry, "peach blossoms" and "clouds" are often symbols of love between men and women; here, aren't the "peach blossom-colored thin clouds" a metaphor for the green love of spring?
2. Scenery description, hinting at the characters’ psychological and emotional fluctuations. In the opening paragraph, the author describes the scene at dusk: the "unceasing chirping" of cuckoos, the "chaotic voices of businessmen" coming from the ferry, the heat from the soil and vegetation, and the smell of various beetles, forming a noisy scene. , lively scenes. The author uses it to contrast the silence around Cuicui at dusk and the "thin sadness" in her heart. The author also cleverly uses animal imagery to indirectly reflect the inner secrets of the characters.
The following excerpt: "It was night, and a big firefly had a blue light on its tail and flew past Cuicui very quickly. Cuicui thought: 'Look how far you fly!' Follow the bright light of the fireflies, and the cuckoo cries again. "The author writes about the free-flying fireflies, which is actually implicitly revealing Cuicui's inner hazy thoughts about independence (leaving her grandfather's "unruly" thoughts). The desire for a wider space of freedom and even for the future life ("it seems that life is too ordinary" and "cannot bear it"). The excerpt from the text repeats the cry of the cuckoo twice, euphemistically revealing the inexplicable loneliness and resentment of Cuicui, a young girl in her early years of love. In the perspective of traditional Chinese culture, the cuckoo is a sad bird and a symbol of sorrow and sadness; in the perspective of traditional Western culture, the cuckoo is also a symbol of love. These two lines, "The cuckoo keeps singing" and "The cuckoo cries again" may seem like idle writing, but they are distant but not separated. They appropriately exaggerate the subtle emotions of a young girl who is full of spring but has no one to rely on for the time being.
Another example is, "The moonlight is extremely soft, and a thin layer of white mist floats on the surface of the stream..." This sentence highlights Cuicui's happy and sweet mood when she is waiting for the person to sing for her. "For a long time, there was nothing but the voiceless repetition of grass and insects in the stream." This sentence brings out the melancholy and loss of Cuicui waiting but not getting it.
3. Scenery description, adjust the rhythm of the novel's narrative. For example, the excerpt from the text describes the scene of grandfather and grandson sitting and chatting in the moonlight after dinner. In the middle of the grandfather telling Cuicui a story, the author interspersed it with a picture of a quiet moonlit bamboo forest ("The moonlight is like silver..." Still sleeping peacefully with his little eyes closed"), making the narrative rhythm more soothing and peaceful. The silvery moonlight, the blackness of the bamboo poles, intertwined light and shadow; the dense rain of insects and the chirping of warblers, add to the tranquility: such a beautiful and peaceful artistic conception seems to make Cuicui listen to her grandfather telling her poor mother's story. The "heaviness" in Shi's heart was temporarily relieved, which helped to prepare the ground for my grandfather to continue telling stories. At the same time, it also explained the passage of time - it was midnight.
The author describes the scenery with delicate brushstrokes, rich sounds and shapes, a combination of movement and stillness, virtuality and reality, just like a painting; even better, the author lets people and objects (such as fireflies) speak, and allows the objects (grass warblers) to understand The human heart, nature and the human heart are in harmony, it is simply poetry! These scenes fit perfectly with the heroine's turbulent youthful emotions of longing to love and be loved, thinking but not knowing why, waiting for something but having nothing to rely on. The vibrant natural creatures in spring are exactly the symbol of the heroine's confused emotions. Such scenery harmonizes with people and emotions blend with the environment, giving people a lasting poetic beauty.