The Study Of Chi Zijian's Novels From Folklore Perspective

The relationship between folklore and writer literature has been studied by academic circles both at home and abroad for long. Folklore, as a kind of culture, always influences writers'creation subtly. Writers describe folk characters and style consciously or unconsciously, and represent customs in some area. No matter how writers enter the folk world, they are always in touch with folk culture elements, or they can't get realistic standing.Chi Zijian, as a northeast writer of unique narrative style and lasting creative vitality, has been concerned by the academic circle already. Her work has obvious tendency of folklore. This study analyzes Chi Zijian's novels from folklore perspective, and clears the relationship between Chi Zijian and northeast folklore thoroughly for getting a unique conclusion of the study that about the relationship between folklore and writers. It includes five parts.One:Introduction. Introduce the related theory of folklore concepts and the relationship between writers and folklore. Introduce the fiction of Chi Zijia and the studies and commentaries about her in the academic circle, and explain the possibility and necessity to study Chi Zijian's novels from folklore perspective.Two:The folk world of the fiction by Chi Zijian. By sorting out the contents of Chi Zijian's novels from four details containing material folk, social folk, spirit folk and language folk, we can find that what were shown in her almost works are the north customs with strong region cultural characteristics, forming a colorful northeast folk world.Three:The creative characteristics of Chi Zijian's novels. Chi Zijian pays close attention to the everyday life of northeast people. What she describes in her novels can be called aesthetic folk, which is away from politics. The folk world described by Chi Zijian is full of romantic, warmth and spirituality. In the novels, folklore is not only the narrative background, but also an organic part in the novel's structure. The construction of folklore narration and plot structure coordinate the coonotation of the novel's theme, the figure's characteristics and fate. So they can be called folk novels, which are different from the ones of Lu Xun. and Mo Yan and the others.Four:The cause of tendency of folklore of Chi Zijian's novels. The tendency of folklore of Chi Zijian's novels connects closely with her life experiences. Chi Zijian grew up in Beiji Village, where the natural folk life impacted her personality. The natural folk of Beiji Village made a prime and profound intentional structure in Chi Zijian's soul, cultivated her style of writing, and became her enduring source for writing. Moreover, the vision of a folklore perspective of Chi Zijian, from a hazy awareness to self-consciousness, is the secret for her lasting writing. Starting from an affection memory of her hometown, Chi Zijian embarked on her career of literary creation. Then she experienced reflection and regress. Finally, she remained committed to the northeast folk world. Chi Zijian writes more and more excellent with the vision of a folklore perspective of the northeast world.Five:Conclusion. By the means of analyzing Chi Zijian's novels, we can find that it is the rich folk culture that certifies her creation amazing and lasting. The writer literature always contains specific region cultural characters, and the local characters and richness of folk culture are bound to be shown by writer literature. As an excellent writer, only his writing was based on the vast folk world, he would hold endless creative energy. Writers record the living folk culture with literary languages, that can not only gains unexpected rewarding to their creation, but also has signification to folklore——it may provide additional information and reference to folklore research data.