When Shen Congwen first wrote about the world of Xiangxi, he only entered the city from the army or from the relatively marginal areas of Xiangxi, and then entered the field of education to live with some foreign gentlemen. At that time, he had a very strong sense of rejection of modern cities, which dominated his creation. He thinks that the city people are "bleeding", and the city people are cooing all day, lacking a little blood, so he wants to exaggerate the non-modern, barbaric and rude things in the rural areas of western Hunan, and use such blood to impact, stimulate and even destroy the fragile aesthetic culture built by the city people.

Introduction to Shen Congwen:

Shen Congwen (1902- 1988), formerly known as Shen Yuehuan, whose pen names are Xiu Yun Yun, Chen Jia, Shangguanbi and Xuanruo, whose real names are Maolin, was born in Fenghuang County, Hunan Province. His grandmother Liu is Miao, his mother is Tujia and his grandfather Shen Hongfu is Han. Shen Congwen (19 17) joined the First Guerrilla Detachment of the Second Army of Guo Jing Allied Forces in Xiangxi, and was stationed in Chenzhou (Yuanling). 19 18 after graduating from primary school in his hometown, he moved to the border region of Hunan, Sichuan and Guizhou and the Yuanshui River basin with local indigenous troops, and then officially joined the army. 1922, Shen Congwen took off his military uniform and came to Beijing to study at Peking University. The first novel Fu Sheng was published in 1925, and the first collection of creative works Ducks was published in 1926. Shen Congwen rose to fame in the literary world in the 1920s, along with the poet Xu Zhimo, essayist Zhou Zuoren and essayist Lu Xun. His representative works, Border Town, Long River and Research on Ancient Chinese Costume, are famous modern writers and cultural relics researchers. 1May 1988 10 Shen Congwen died at home of a heart attack at the age of 86.