On The "white Deer Characteristics Of The Original" Folk Culture And Its Value

Why"White Deer Prairie"became one of the most outstanding novels in the end 20th centuries, the important reason is a stronger"Agrestic complex"show in the work. And this is just because the author is sentimentally attached to the place where he was born, and treats the people in central Shaanxi with all sincerity. We can say the creation of"White Deer Prairie"reveals author's deep feelings to Chinese village, farmers, nationality. The description of the folk culture in the novel provides a main channel to express this kind of deep emotion.In"White Deer Prairie"the author describes the folk culture of region which has a great special feature, and it makes political utility become faint, it also adds to cultural content and artistic value of this novel. This thesis inquiries achievement of the folk cultural description in"White Deer Prairie"from these aspects below: First, sort out the type of the folk cultural description in"White Deer Prairie", second, analyze the characteristic of folk cultural description in"White Deer Prairie", third, explain the historical culture value and artistic value of the folk description in"White Deer Prairie"."White Deer Prairie", this novel has a wide vision on folk custom. The author describes his hometown incisively from the aspects of geographical features, agricultural farming work, cultural relics, local the local rules, the weddings and funerals, festival etiquettes, the ways of the world, ethics morals, people' s hobbies and moral characters. All these facts are collected to the natural landscape, the humanities landscape and historical landscape of unique regional cultural characteristics, thereby, he presents us a blending scene of rural and modern atmosphere.According to the classification of folklore, the types of folk description in"White Deer Prairie"can be divided into four kinds, the first one is the folk description of social organization the second one is folk description of material produce and life, the third one is the folk description of custom by the end of the year, the last one is the folk description of spirit;the characteristic of the folk description is that to foster a life style of simple diet, to be filled with affection for hometown and emotional attachment among family. It is the symbol of the position of the clan elder that the Whites pursues fine gate tower and it is a materialized mark to pay attention to public appearance; Burial rites and born rites reflect a funeral idea that is value men and belittle women, a life ideology that is value life and belittle death; Wedding and betrothal custom reflect a viewpoint that is to be well-matched in social status, and it is an aesthetic perspective of female. This thesis demonstrate that the novelist put this mysterious phenomenon as cultural philosophy that is a kind of viewpoint on world and life to express our nationality's deep understanding of outside world and biological phenomenon by means of analysis of mental custom. white deer image runs through story all the time; The mysterious dream omen, drives a ghost, avoids evil spirits, prays for rain and fatalistic good fortune misfortune mental consciousness reflects unconsciously or not the folk cultural psychology in specific region and time. The mysterious phenomenon in"White Deer Prairie"is mostly suffered a crushing defeat so as to point out the inquiries and reconsidering of national mystical culture. However, the destiny criticizes of Confucianism culture in"White Deer Prairie"spiritual folk customs, which lacks for the tragedy strength of"boring in the ending world with luck disappeared", it is actually the biggest regret.Folk custom description in"White Deer Prairie"displayed a process that Confucianism culture from the temple to the folk and to the folk custom of"the kind and justice white deer village"collapse totally, from breaking up of a small social traditional village allude to the great change of society and times. Meanwhile, folk description in"White Deer Prairie"focus on the peasant's living condition and mental reality in central Shaanxi in the first half of the 20th century, through the description of the change of the attire,marriage vulgar traditional village live to reflect historical change of the society.From the artistic value of the folk description, we can see that the author is good at constructing an atmosphere using folk description, thus promoting the plot to spread out, increasing readability, enhancing the typical model of living environment, demonstrating the regional characteristic of the person clearly.