Interested in root-seeking writers? Root-seeking? The reasons are put forward and explained in the same way: should China literature be based on profoundness? Cultural excavation? Dig this ancient land? Cultural class? , can and? World literature? Dialogue. Han Shaogong proposed? Literature has roots, which should be deeply rooted in the soil of national traditional culture. If the roots are not deep, the leaves will not flourish. ? Zheng Wanlong believes that? Our roots are in the East, and the East has its own culture? He announced, what do you want? Keep digging under your feet? Cultural class.
Acheng said firmly,? Culture restricts human beings? Let the world know our literature? Dialogue? ,? A new understanding of China culture should be an important part. ? However, China's culture has a long history, extensive and profound, and at the same time it is deeply accumulated, which has been hit hard. ? Root-seeking? When literature persistently pursues this traditional culture, writers are always there because of their different unique feelings and different aesthetic ideals in their respective cultural backgrounds. Root-seeking? Show your rights in this process? Root? Different understanding of (China traditional culture). As to how to comprehensively grasp the national traditional culture, that is, what kind of roots literature should seek, the root-seekers are divided on the theoretical text, which is based on their vacillation and paranoia in grasping the sanctions against traditional culture. What do they think of literature? Root? The difference of cognition is reflected in the specific creative practice, showing quite complex diversity.
First, Confucian culture actively entered the WTO.
As? Culture? Root-seeking, although most root-seeking writers pay more attention to marginal, heretical and irregular cultural traditions and values, they still can't avoid inheriting Confucian culture, which is the center of traditional culture. Traditional Confucian culture is an enterprising culture, and its ideological theory is very practical and full of practical utilitarianism. What does the Confucian concept emphasize? Man can conquer nature? Subjective efforts, emphasizing the positive spirit of joining WTO. "Zhouyi? Do divination? Say to Yan? Heaven is healthy, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement. ? Many characters written by root-seeking writers obviously inherit the strong spirit in traditional culture, and at the same time pursue the feelings of heaven and earth, connecting the spirit of self-improvement with the tolerance and generosity of virtue. They emphasize the initiative of the subject in their attitude towards the nature of heaven and earth, and think that people should be active and conform to nature in real life? The virtue of life? Take on the mission of mankind.
People in Laojing Laojing Village have struggled for generations on the dry mountain where water is as expensive as oil since ancient times. Their persistence, forbearance, hardship and sacrifice in drilling wells made us obviously feel a boiling and unyielding blood surging. They insisted on finding water for generations, which not only reflected the resilience of the old Jing people, but also reflected their enthusiasm for life. It is the resilience of traditional Confucian culture and the persistence of pursuing harmony between man and nature that support generations of old well people. Although the author praised Xiao Ge's protection of nature, he also refuted Xiao Ge's statement that human beings left the field through Li Li. Feed yourself? People make iron. Making tools to transform nature? Emphasize the dominant position of human beings in society and in the universe and nature; Far Village, with the help of hearty brushstrokes, strongly exaggerates the emotional stories of Yang Wanniu and Ye Ye, and profoundly shows the persistence and firmness of Yang Wanniu, Ye Ye and Yang Fancheng in their sufferings, as well as their yearning and pursuit for future life. The Ancient Boat shows the endless competition and revenge among Zhao, Sui and Li clans, and the bloody and even bloody river in Wali Town, but Sui Baopu's life pursuit and life principles show a positive attitude towards life.
Second, the quiet and detached Taoist culture.
As a non-standard culture, Laozi and Zhuangzi culture has always had more profound and extensive activities than Confucianism, and it has a long history among the people. Its broad spiritual freedom, its natural life requirements and its complacency are most in line with the life mentality of the poor in Shan Ye forest. To a certain extent, the spirit of Tao has become a powerful life consciousness, which has nurtured China people from generation to generation. The outstanding feature of Taoist spirit is the pursuit of spiritual freedom, which was put forward by Lao Tzu? Virtual silence? The concept of? Virtual silence? It means that the mind is kept in a condensed and hidden state. Laozi earnestly appeals to people to pay attention to their inner life savings.
In Zhang Wei's Ancient Ship, the protagonist holds two books in his hand, one is the Producer's Proclamation, and the other is Qu Yuan's Tian Wen. Behind the political ethics of governing the country and rejuvenating the country, human beings are always reluctant to let go of their sheltered selves and call for a strong meditation on life and the universe with a free heart. Kong Jiesheng's Manglin and Deng Gang's Enchanting Sea were published in? Harmony between man and nature? In the field of Taoism, promote the concept of heaven and man in traditional Taoist culture. Acheng's works, whether chess king or tree king, all reveal the Taoist meaning of harmony between man and nature and contentment. Wang Yisheng, Xiao Ge, Stump Li Er and? Me? And Lao Li, who loves writing, responded to Lao Zi's voice. Under the pressure of life, they all showed indifference and detachment. Wang Yisheng is right? Chess? His attitude is actually his attitude towards life. He used chess to dispel the pain of life and pursue spiritual purity and freedom. In this way, it has achieved the transcendence of the noisy world and the depression of life, and embodied Laozi and Zhuangzi. Do nothing. Do nothing? The philosophical thought of. The spirit of Taoist culture in China is condensed in the Chu-He Han boundary of China Chess, which makes Wang Yisheng seek the style of Zhuangzi in turbulent and manic years, and reflects the author's yearning for traditional Taoist culture.
Third, folk regional culture.
When searching for roots, most writers focus on the people, especially those who are not standardized. Slang, unofficial history, legends, jokes, folk songs, fairy tales, customs, sexual styles, etc? On the cultural level, break through the norms with non-norms, thus entering the reality of the great spiritual internal force of the nation. Li Hangyu believe it? The essence of our national culture is still more outside the norms of the Central Plains. What we need is to go beyond the norm. Root? Because they are distributed on vast land and deeply rooted in the fertile soil of the people. ? Root-seeking writers try to dig out the ancient and profound cultural accumulation of a region and a nation based on their native land, so as to realize the dialogue between root-seeking and reality and the world.
Jia Pingwa has been immersed in the ancient culture of Qin and Han dynasties for a long time and deeply realized its thick, simple and unrestrained style. He regards it as a national spirit that is meaningful to himself and society. He described the history, geography and folk customs of Shangzhou vividly, as if? Peach Blossom Garden? Quiet and peaceful rural scenery, as well as tough and simple men and kind and gentle women closely connected with this land; Han Shaogong's novels render the dazzling and absurd amorous feelings of Xiangxi, and his masterpiece Daddy Daddy revives the bizarre, mysterious and magnificent mythological system in Chu culture with the help of fables and symbols. Li Hangyu's "Gechuanjiang" series explores the life force and the spirit of freedom in Wu and Yue culture, and explores the fulcrum of life value. Houguere wrote down the wild charm of Ewenki people in the dense forests of Northeast China. Zheng Wanlong is in the folds of Heilongjiang Mountain to see how hunters and gold diggers are. When you create matter, you also create yourself? ; In addition, Zhang Wei and Jian Peijun in Shandong Peninsula, Acheng in Yunnan and Zheng Yi in Shaanxi are also tirelessly cultivating the accumulated resources in their respective territories? Cultural class? .
Fourth, criticism of cultural ills.
It is worth noting that although root-seeking literature also embodies the essence of traditional civilization in aesthetic implication and personality shaping, in fact, many root-seeking writers only see the dross factors in traditional culture in the process of root-seeking, and expose and criticize the heavy negative factors accumulated in traditional national culture for a long time in their works. Ideal? The collapse and loss of writing has become the real mainstream of root-seeking literature.
This part of the work focuses on examining and criticizing the chronic diseases and bad habits in national culture, and exposing the long-standing ignorance, closure and conservative habits. For example, in Far Village, Wan Niu is incontrovertibly angry and helpless; In Old Well, Sun Wanshui violently suppressed the love between Qiao Ying and Quan Wang, and Liang Gongzi was vulgar, backward and barbaric. , are saturated with deep national suffering and hopeless delusion; For example, Han Shaogong's works such as Daddy's Daughter's Return only see the lack of national culture.
From Daddy Daddy? Jitouzhai? Wild, chaotic and ignorant, almost everything in the primitive barbaric era has been preserved. People here are superstitious about taboos, worship their ancestors, have no concept of human nature, resist the enemy and migrate greatly. Soldier is an image that is always naive in appearance and intelligence, and its animality far exceeds the retrogression and atavism of human nature, which is the inferiority of national traditional culture. Root? A combination, and he has super vitality. Take poison and not die? . Soldier is actually a symbol, symbolizing the closed and conservative national character, blindly following the tradition and the unconscious of self-survival. His super vitality symbolizes the elimination of the disadvantages in tradition? Root? It is not easy. Wang Anyi's Bao Xiaozhuang also examines traditional culture and ethics. Xiaobaozhuang people have been strong since ancient times? Renyi? Traditionally, they are simple and kind, respect the old and love the young, can help each other, sacrifice themselves to save others, and shine with humanitarian light. Still because? Renyi? Their thoughts and spirits are imprisoned, and their humanity is suppressed. The pure love between Wenhua and Xiaocui is not open; The combination of the second aunt and the pickup truck met with people's eyes and opposition. In daily life, people in Xiaobaozhuang are cautious, abstinent, and suppress their individuality, so that they are in? Renyi? Under the influence of "Bao Xiaozhuang", the whole Bao Xiaozhuang has become a super-stable body of a country's cultural and psychological structure, and there is almost no way for Bao Xiaozhuang's people to shake it. On the one hand, the work affirms the positive factors in traditional culture, but it also denies the negative effects of such factors, which is exactly what Wang Anyi excavated in folk and regional culture? Root? Chronic diseases.
Although these root-seeking writers have continued to pick up? May 4th Movement? Has the tradition of cultural criticism been revealed? Suffering from illness? , for the cause? Rescue? Attention, as for how? Rescue? They are still at a loss, unable and unable to answer questions left over from history and culture.
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Based on different knowledge and understanding of China's traditional culture, root-seeking writers present different aesthetic forms and value orientations in their works, which objectively enrich and enrich China's contemporary literature and undoubtedly promote the inheritance of China's traditional culture. But its limitations are also very obvious. Most root-seeking writers are right? Culture? What is the understanding of the concept? Generalize by partiality? Yes, they often seize some folk customs and deliberately exaggerate them, but ignore them, right? Nationality? Real anatomy.
They still maintain a strong subjective spirit in being close to the people, which leads them to have more illusions in the pursuit of cultural roots, so it is hard to say that they have reached a real identity with the people. Today, looking for roots? It is a failed search, and the cause of failure is the same as the consequence of further deepening, that is, the loss of national traditional culture in literature. Literature anemia caused by the long-term loss of national traditional culture has aroused the desire and interest of root seekers in literature in a specific period. For the same reason, the root-seekers do not have a thorough understanding and cognition of the goals they are looking for, and the ambiguity of understanding directly leads to the deviation of seeking. In addition to the gap in knowledge system, obviously, after? May 4th Movement? It is difficult for intellectuals who have been baptized by new culture to return to the ideological category of traditional culture. Release? Root-seeking? Literary trend of thought is inevitable in this particular period of the 1980s, and so is its failure.