Study On Landscape Writing Of Shen Congwen’s Novel "The Long River"

In the history of modern Chinese novels,Shen Congwen’s works have their own unique artistic style.Compared with the research and discussion of the text in the categories of spatialization,prose,ideology,etc.,the landscape writing of Shen Congwen’s novel "The Long River" is rarely discussed.This essay takes Shen Congwen’s novel text of "The Long River" as the research object,starting from the similarities and fusions between cultural geography and painting art,and examining the types of landscapes it presents,the visual artistic characteristics of the landscapes and writing motivations,as well as writing The meaning presented is a comprehensive analysis of the landscape writing in Shen Congwen’s novel "The Long River".Shen Congwen uses the mountains and rivers along the banks of the river,animals and plants to express the natural and geographical landscape,and displays the humanistic scenery with the various labor,daily life,and folk customs of the locals.The landscape writing of "The Long River" and the ancient painting theory have a close practical relationship and profound spiritual connection.The former shows that Shen Congwen learned a wealth of visual experience in Xiangxi,where he was born and grew up,and he consciously accepted the influence of painting ideas.It is mainly manifested in that Shen Congwen is deeply influenced by traditional Chinese painting techniques,integrating the line drawing,freehand brushwork,and blanking techniques in his paintings into his novel creation,thus obtaining intuitive and rich landscape images.He grabbed the subject of Xiangxi that he was familiar with,and presented to the readers beautiful and moving paintings,depicting a corner of Xiangxi,and achieved the effect of getting a glimpse of the whole picture of Xiangxi.In his literary works and fine art works,he has left a deep impression of ancient literati paintings.Specifically,Shen Congwen’s literary works are presented to readers in the form of paintings.He constantly absorbs the emphasis of ancient literati ink and wash paintings and pays attention to freehand brushwork.In literary works,it is the poeticization of novel language.The simplicity of pen and ink is the spiritual pursuit of literati painting,presenting a sparse and light painting style,in the novel it is the most simple to quiet and distant artistic conception.Influenced by Shen Congwen,the degree of ink and wash is a blank expression in his literary works,and it is also a quiet and fresh lyrical attitude.He uses a space-like structure to form the effect of framing perspective,and cleverly arranges the characters in a certain background to achieve a transparent view of the landscape.Influenced by painting theory,Shen Congwen uses a large number of words to express colors and dialects,and writes the language and colors of his hometown into his works,portraying the intuitive three-dimensional scenery of the hometown,and portraying the intuitive three-dimensional image of the hometown with highly condensed language.Driving Shen Congwen to describe a large number of people and things about his hometown in the form of words,because of his deep love for his hometown in a foreign land,and correcting the misunderstanding of the world’s Xiangxi,is his expression of his thoughts about his hometown.Shen Congwen opened up the fusion of literary works and paintings,created each other,and finally broke through the conventions of novels,concise and casual,and formed his own unique creative style.Shen Congwen builds a bridge for the outside world to understand Xiangxi in the form of words,which broadens the direction of the future cultural tourism space in Xiangxi.The literary space formed by his writing has an important influence on the construction of the tourism space in Xiangxi,which effectively promotes the development of tourism in Xiangxi,realizes the purpose of combining culture and tourism,and provides inspiration for the rise and development of global tourism in Xiangxi,It provides realistic reference experience for reshaping the tourism cultural space and tourism regional cooperation in Xiangxi.