History, Ethnic-characteristic, Life Consciousness: Where Is Home?

In the river novel blood pipal which indicated the peak artistic achievement of the Manchu author Zhu-chunyu, the writer selected the living history of Balayu people of the Manchu as original version of creation, and offered readers a brilliant book of expressing the ethnic characteristic. The text imbued strong life consciousness. The paper divided into four parts, the introduction, the first section, the second section and conclusion. The introduction explained the relationship between the creation trace of the author and the construction of Chinese modern ethnic literature, as well as the present research situation of this novel. The first section used the history and ethnic-characteristic as the study point, to inspect the view point of the author about these two points; Future more, in the second section, the paper analyzed the life consciousness behind the narration of the text. In conclusion, the paper pointed out that the success of the blood pipal brought out the beneficial thinking to the creation of ethnic literature.