What kind of place is the border town in Shen Congwen's Border Town?

The Border Town written by Shen Congwen is a small town in western Hunan, similar to the Peach Blossom Garden. Its simple folk customs and picturesque scenery point out a bright way for the confused human nature in urban civilization. There is still pure and natural love in the world, and life needs to convert to the nature of nature.

The book describes: "From Sichuan to Hunan, there is an official road heading east. When this road approaches the border of western Hunan and reaches a small town called "Tea Cave", there is a small stream with a small white tower and a family living under it. There is only an old man, a girl and a yellow dog in this family.

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. "

Border Town was written in 193 1 year, which was the season of Shen Congwen's love career. 193 1 year, although the society is turbulent, it is still slightly peaceful on the whole. At this time, China's conscientious literati were thinking about the essence of human nature, and Shen Congwen naturally took the lead.

Taking the tea cave in the border town between Sichuan and Hunan in the 1930s as the background, this paper describes the unique customs of Xiangxi with beautiful brushstrokes of lyric poetry and prose. The pure love story of Cui Cui, a boatman girl, shows the goodness and beauty of human nature.

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Because Shen Congwen is a phoenix, many people think that Border Town is a phoenix in Hunan, but it is not. Look at the first sentence of Border Town again: "From Sichuan to Hunan, there is an official road to the east, near the border of Xiangxi. In a small mountain town called Tea Cave, there is a stream ... ".

Obviously, the Border Town written by Shen Congwen is called Tea Cave. Looking through the map of western Hunan, you will find that there is no "tea cave" in Fenghuang County. When you look to the northern part of Fenghuang County, Huayuan County at the junction of Hunan, Wudu (now Chongqing) and Guizhou, you will find the "border town" here.

In other words, the prototype of "Border Town" is Chadong Town, Huayuan County, Hunan Province, but this town was renamed as "Border Town" in 2005 and still marked as "Tea City" on the previously published map.

The border town was originally named Chadong Town, but it was changed to the border town in July 2005, named after Shen Congwen's novel Border Town. 20 16 and 10 were selected as the first batch of characteristic towns in China in June.

Border town is a town with cultural tourism as its development direction. Therefore, the construction of small towns in border cities has always revolved around the word tourism.

Two scenic spots, China Border Town Cui Cui Island and China Border Town Baishuyuan, which have both national characteristics and artistic value, have been built one after another, becoming a holy land and paradise for fans and calligraphy lovers of Border Town, and also a huge booster to promote the tourism development of Border Town.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Border Town (Shen Congwen's novella)