The Relationship Between Tradition And Modern

Jia Pingwa cannot be ignored in Chinese contemporary literature circles. Facing with the Chinese society reforming and the traditional and modern conflict in the modern linguistic environment, he is always paying attention to the social real life and people's survival circumstances. His works have fully showed the traditional and modern conflict in such aspects as culture, life and thoughts in Chinese transitional period, and have described the colliding course and people's perplexity, pain and helplessness among the predicament.After the work of the Deserted City, Jia Pingwa has written six works: the Door of Earth, Daytime, Gao Laozhuang, in Memory of wolf and Qin Opera, which all manifested his attention and ponder on the conflicts between tradition and modern. He launches with three aspects, including traditional and modern thoughts'collision, traditional villages and modern cities confronting, human and nature relations variation. It explains the meaning of the conflict situation, displays people's confusing and painful mood under the conflicts, and actively seeks integration and development between tradition and modern.The conflicts between tradition and modern display in human's thoughts prominently. Social reforming brings the shock and uneasy to people's mind, and the economical transformation takes to the people is not only the improvement of physical conditions, but the more important is the shock to people's mind. Traditional love idea is challenged, and the traditional female and modern female is deducting the different life tragicomedy respectively. Xi Xia is an ideal character of traditional and modern union that Jia Pingwa portrays. The contradictory conflict between the city and countryside is always the object that Jia Pingwa pays attention to. Traditional village has inevitably stepped to the degenerated path in aspects of economy, culture, morals, etc, and traditional culture essence is also shattered by the modern material civilization. Cities develop fast in the modernized advancement, but their own malpractice also gradually reveal. The contest between villages and cities is inevitable in aspect of development space, production method and cultural spirit, etc, but Jia Pingwa holds dual critical manner to villages and cities, therefore he constructed "the God Grain Plateau", which merits the advantages of villages and cities. The human and nature relations variation has also manifested Jia Pingwa's ponder to the conflicts between tradition and modern. He takes the change of relation between human beings and wolves, between human beings and the land, to criticize the wrong thoughts and behavior, which considers human beings as the center. The destruction to the nature has been seen through a cow's eyes from Zhongnan Mountain to the city, which has caused humans survival to be threatened. Jia Pingwa advocates the thought that all things are equal in the world, and that nature and humans gather to one, pays attention to humanity's natural ecological environment. The Taoist Priest, living in the Red Rock Temple, has become the model which people should study in being together with other animals.Jia Pingwa not only gives vivid descriptions of the conflicts between tradition and modern in Chinese present social development, but also proposes an active road for fusion. But he is only a writer after all, he cannot solve the problem fundamentally. Jia Pingwa's writing is also continuing, and with the writer's richer experiences and society's further development, we are anticipating that his exploration and attempt will bring beneficial enlightenment to us.