Memorizing And Fantasizing: The Spiritual Choice Of The Countryside-Backgrounded Novels In The Great Cultural Revolution

Since the new period, with the overall negation of the Great Cultural Revolution, the relevant literature in the Great Cultural Revolution was thoroughly covered with dust after its glories. So that some have asserted radically:There is no literature in the Great-Cultural Revolution. Undoubtedly, this emotional judge to the literature in the. Great Cultural Revolution depending on a particular mood because of the experience in the Great Cultural Revolution didn't accord with the main facts of the literature in the Great Cultural Revolution that had flourished unprecedentedly because those were cultivated by all sorts of elements, such as the contemporary existence, the proposed theory and the writers' talent, etc. Some scholars have begun to try to prove its rightful status, for example, Huang Ziping, Chen Pingyuan and Qian Liqun together put forward the main frame "Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century" for its return; After a while, Chen Sihe put forward a basic criterion "Cultural Psychology in War". According to the same reasoning, we will discuss the spiritual choice of the countryside-backgrounded novels in the Great Cultural Revolution owing to "Go On Revolting under the Proletariat's Dictatorship" in the literary area that was dominated by "Two Classes, Two Roads, Two Routes" with a "Literary Cultural Criticism" in the limited article.The major subject matters of the countryside-backgrounded novels in the Great Cultural Revolution may come from the direct political movements labelled literarily from 1950s to 1970s. They can be divided into four kinds roughly by the names of the political movements and correspond to "Go On Revolting" from various direction: Firstly, A reliable "History-Evidence" was provided for "Go On Revolting" by the Cooperative Movement conforming to the current situation in the novels about "Cooperative Transformation of Agriculture"; Secondly, In the novels about the "Anti-Right Deviation", temporary tactics was offered, so that "Go On Revolting" could be carried out lawfully in rural areas by the planned movement of the Anti-Right Deviation; Thirdly, In the novels about the Socialist-Educated movement, the profound foundation of thought and class was established by initiating the "Four-Clean-ups" movement; At last, in the novels about "To learn from Da Zhai' Agriculture Movement " , "Grasp Revolution" and "Promote Production" fully deserved setting examples.In Chinese literary history, the peasant's images are rich and colorful. In the countryside-backgrounded novels in the Great-Cultural Revolution, they were taken great pains to be portrayed: Firstly, some socialist pioneers regarded as grass-roots cadres orgnized large-scale poor and lower-middle peasants to take the socialist road firmly under the guidence of Mao Zedong Thought; Secondly, many poor and lower-middle peasants owing to simple class love were deeply grateful to the collar and sleeves, their all revolutionary actions were coincided with the proletary revolutionary route and held high the socialist banner; Thirdly, Some well-to-do middle peasants being " No good and No Evil" and "Good and Evil" between the sage and the slut, they lavish praise on themselves with "Selfish is shrewd, Harming others to benefit himself is competent, Trimming one's sails is loose "; At last, Some insidiousand deceitful landlords pretended to be honest apparently, though they had wished to kill us anytime if they had a chance, they would do great damage by every possible way and even collaborate with reactionary forces home and abroad. They have spared no efforts to show the importance of "Co On Revolting" through their deeds.Value-orientation is one of the centers in the countryside-backgrounded novels in the Great Cultural Revolution. The class-conscious criticism about "Feudal superstition, Capitalistic trend and revisionism" is conveyed by "the feeling attached to land, poor and lower-middle peasants directly longing for land and school leavers' growth in the countryside and the change of the new generation of poor...