On this day, 89 years ago, on August 9, 1936 (June 23, 1936, the lunar calendar), Shen Congwen's "Border Town" was published. Shen Congwen Shen Congwen's novella "Border Town" was published. The novel describes the story of a small border town in western Hunan on the border with Sichuan around the 1920s. The work sings about human nature and embodies in the characters a "beautiful, healthy, natural form of life that is not inconsistent with human nature." As a result, the small border town has formed an ideal environment full of love everywhere, which twists and turns expresses the author's dissatisfaction with the reality of violating human nature. The realm of the novel blends emotions and scenes, has a poetic charm, is rich in local color, is simple and profound; the language is naturally implicit, like mountains and rivers, and is very fashionable.