After reading his works, you will find that Shen Congwen likes to create a beautiful artistic conception by combining feelings and scenes. This should prove that the famous aesthete Zhu Guangqian's "situation is harmonious, harmonious, and the situation can be called a situation, and the situation can also convey feelings." This is the realm of poetry. " Shen Congwen is best at describing love full of pastoral factors, rather than writing "a pool of blood and a handful of tears", but he likes to express human suffering with a smile. When describing such subjects, he started from the pantheism thought of "the unity of man and nature", deliberately downplayed the plot and expressed the beauty of nature with a light prose style. For example, "Border Town" gives a detailed description of the diaojiao building, the trestle and rope crossing of the tea cave, the bamboo raft and the white tower of Bixi, and carefully sketches a landscape map of western Hunan; This paper introduces the wedding ceremony in rural areas of western Hunan, dragon boat race on the Dragon Boat Festival, catching ducks, eating zongzi and finding relatives, and carefully depicts a genre painting in western Hunan. In addition, Shen Congwen likes to express it in a gentle style, creating a unique aesthetic mood and brewing a fresh and far-reaching pastoral mood in his novels and essays. However, this pastoral sentiment corresponds to an ideal life style. In the real society, this simple beauty of human nature is disappearing day by day. Therefore, while singing these pastoral songs, there is a trace of melancholy and a trace of hidden pain, which makes its gentle and peaceful pastoral songs mixed with a touch of sadness and sadness.
Artistic conception is the product of the combination of reality and reality, which is born out of images and contains a lingering charm that is difficult to chew, so that readers can appreciate the deeper emotional meaning of the author through images. Zong Baihua once stated: "Artists use their hearts to map everything, express mountains and rivers, and make statements. What he shows is that the director's life perception is integrated with the natural scenery he manages, and he has reached a spiritual realm of flying kites, lively and delicate, profound and profound; This spiritual realm is the artistic conception that constitutes art. Artistic conception is not the natural reproduction of a single plane, but the deep creation of a realm. There are three layers: the description of intuitive feelings, the exchange of active life, and the enlightenment to the highest spiritual realm. " eight
Yes, Shen Congwen's pursuit of artistic conception beauty is not simply to reproduce the beauty of Xiangxi and let readers roam the Peach Blossom Garden. Of course, this is also one of the reasons, but the most important thing is that he said, "I want to express a' life form', a' beautiful, healthy, natural and not against human nature' form." In order to achieve this goal, Shen Congwen pays attention to shaping a paradise as beautiful as a fairyland on earth and creating an idealized countryside. Therefore, the author outlined this novel and unique Border Town with poetic language and elegant images.
It can be said that Border Town is Shen Congwen's utopia.