Hometown Complex

Chi Zijian is a miracle of modern Chinese literary word.As some critic says,Her outstanding silhouette and her different creation form a piece of fantastic scenery in modern Chinese literary world.In more than twenty years,Chi Zijian always sets her eyes on her hometown and wanders in her unique artistic world.Her uniqueness is always the focus of those literary critics.This paper writer,on the basis of perceptual experience and rational understanding, tries to obtain a deeper and original command of Chi's novel creation with her hometown complex as a breakthrough and by way of close reading.â… .Tender CareThe opinion of thinking that human beings are good-natured and tender feelings are always in Chi's novels.In her thick hometown complex expression,Chi Zijian shows her care and praise to her hometown people with her tender feelings.All literary works would describe something about human nature,but different writers have different style in showing that.Some modern writers tend to expose the evil side of human nature,but Chi Zijian,in her own way,praise the good side by fostering a tender world.Her novels show the harmonious life of her innocent hometown people,their mutual care,and tolerance and reform of the evil.In this word people do not punish the evils by law but reach the aim of moralizing by moral care.Her novels tend to give some reasonable explanations to the so-called evil.Moreover,Chi Zijian let readers see her loving hometown people's tender melting of the bitter life.â…¡.Adore Nature and Praise Folk CustomsIn Chi's novels the hometown is beautiful and inspiring and the natural world has fabulous charm by being endowed with the spirit of deity and good humanity.In her novels human beings and the natural world are equal.People no longer treat the natural word as their subordinates and available resources and therefore people have equal communication with nature.Most of her novels' characters and affairs are set in her hometown Daxing'anling.The local scenery and folk customs like mountains,wood houses,white night,polar lights,great snow,fishing season and Yangko take the readers into a picturesque "arctic village world".This uniqueness of her novels is inseparable with her hometown complex. â…¢.Pay Close Attention to Vulnerable GroupChi's loving pen is filled with her deep care for her hometown people,especially for women.Chi Zijian gives a brand new explanation and understanding of the hardship of women's surviving.For the defects of human life,spiritual or physical,Chi Zijian shows her realistic care and spiritual redemption.In her care of the vulnerable group Chi Zijian expresses her deep understanding of human life.In addition,non-human life is also part of hometown structure.Chi's novels show the same sympathy and care to the non-human life under the control of human being,which is also the expression of hometown complex.â…£.Childhood Angle of View and Fairy Tale WorldIn Chi's deep heart,the childhood memory which is connected closely with her hometown is a miracle field full of vigor,in which childhood is a combination of realistic memory and pursuing of dreams.With her nostalgic pen Chi Zijian makes her childhood reappear in front of her,and then she indulges herself in the happiness of reminiscence of her childhood,and therefore review her hometown complex.With this artistic way of looking at the world with a child's eyes,Chi Zijian exposes her hometown in a beautiful way and at the same time thinks about the human life and the society.â…¤.Cause and Significance of Hometown ComplexThe hometown complex conveyed by Chi's novels forms the core of her nostalgic novels,which connects closely with her life experience,living environment and the time background.In her passionate and direct description of hometown things and her quiet telling of those hometown moving stories,Chi Zijian conveys her doubts and resistances to modern civilization represented by urban civilization.She dissolves a series of confusion and wilderness brought by the urban civilization by way of returning back to the hometown.In the noisier modern civilization and in the moment of human being's being driven out of spiritual world,Chi's eagerness and efforts in reestablishing social ethics and order is undoubtedly meaningful.