作为防范苗族而出现的湘西地方部队筸军,是近现代湘西少数民族地区社会悲剧和历史悲剧的缩影,筸军作为群体,其命运充满了鲜明的悲剧色彩,其历史就是一部湘西民族地区的近现代史。刘萧的小说《筸军之城》具有深刻的悲壮审美意蕴,演绎了浪漫与激情,充满了神秘与想象,彰显了湘西文化重情爱美浪漫、雄强刚直彪悍的精神特征。小说作品用审美的方式再现了这一悲剧群体形象,以此来对湘西民族地区近现代历史与社会进行深入的艺术思考。 As a guard against the Hmong, the emergence of the western army in Hunan is a microcosm of social tragedies and historical tragedies in the modern minority areas in western Hunan. As a group, the fighters’ army is full of distinct tragedies full of fate. Its history is that of a western Hunan minority area Modern history. Liu Xiao ’s novel “The City of the Juyong Army” has profound tragic aesthetic connotations, deduces the romance and passion, is full of mystery and imagination, and demonstrates the spiritual features of Xiangxi culture. The works of the novel reproduce this image of the tragedy group in an aesthetical way in order to conduct in-depth artistic thinking on the modern history and society in the minority areas of western Hunan.