Cui Cui is the heroine in Shen Congwen's "Border Town". She is an artistic image in which the author devotes his ideals of "love" and "beauty".
Cui Cui is a pure and lovely country girl, the embodiment of beauty. Her love story is a poignant song. She is a flesh-and-blood character born of the author's nostalgia and nostalgia. The author also expresses his ruthless criticism of "modern civilization" through the artistic image of Cuicui. .
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"Border Town" is set in Chadong, a border town at the junction of Sichuan and Hunan in the 1930s. It depicts the story of The unique customs and customs of Xiangxi region. The love tragedy of the boatman girl Cuicui highlights the kindness and beauty of human nature and the clarity and purity of the soul.
Cui Cui is the heroine in Shen Congwen's "Border Town". She is an artistic image in which the author devotes his ideals of "love" and "beauty". Shen Congwen said in his articles such as "My Wife" and "Shuiyun" that Cuicui is "synthesized" from three prototypes: "the little girl on the woolen yarn shop", "a rural woman" from Laoshan, Qingdao, and the "bride beside me" (i.e., his wife Zhang Zhaohe) of.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Cuicui