Parent-child Conflicts In Current Rural Reform In China

Rural novels are a unique landscape in the history of Chinese new literature, through which we can feel the history of China’s rural changes. In the process of China’s rural reform, the two reforms is the turning point of the development, which are the agricultural cooperative movement in seventeen years and the new economic policy in the beginning of the new period. The two periods of writers in close contact with the reform, the reform of the social changes caused by the deep sentiment, together to write a symphony of the fate of the farmers. “Parent-child conflicts " is the complex of their reform of common mode, through two generations of the father and son different reactions to the reform, it is not difficult to find intense conflicts in the reform, like progress and conservative, civilization and ignorance, traditional and modern. Along with the steps of rural reform, the connotations of parent-child conflicts have also changed. Paper from three aspects to compare two periods of parent-child conflicts, analysis of rural transformation through the formal appearance of parent-child conflict brings to the farmers psychological tremor, at the same time to reflect on the countryside and farmers modernization path.The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter is the comparison of the seventeen year and the beginning of the new period from the farmer’s management. The reform of rural economy experienced the change from the agricultural cooperative movement to the household contract responsibility system and economic deregulation, but parents farmers in the change remains as strong as ever to take a negative attitude, they stubborn is not willing to break with the old way of life, and sub generation of farmer to actively support the new policy, strive to create a new life. Although the father and son choose the way of business is different, but they are all in order to achieve the ideal of getting rich and their own stick. The second chapter compares the change of the conflict between father and son in the value concept caused by the rural turbulence. With the rapid development of economy, people’s values also need to keep pace with the times. But parents farmers inherited the traditional curing values, incompatible with the change, and sub generation of farmers to adapt to the changes, changes in formed the pursuit of the ideal of the new. Seventeen years period, the sub generation of farmers will be ideal of collectivism as their belief, and sub generation of farmers in the new period is to consciousness of commodity economy guide their own entrepreneurial fortune. The third chapter compares the marriage and love life. Feudal marriage seriously hindered the young men and women in the pursuit of free love; therefore, anti feudal has always been the theme of the contemporary marriage life novel. But in these two periods, their sons against the feudal arranged showed different characteristics. With the help of the Marriage Law, sub generation was victorious in the "seventeen years" period. The sons in the new period break through the limits of paternity, to pursuit free love and marriage.In short, the conflict between father and son is a breakthrough in rural reform novels since the founding of the PRC, through changes in the internal relations of the family, can map out the changes caused by changes in social reality. In the father and the son of the fiercest conflicts, farmers in the journey also show in the process of modernization. At the same time as you can see, the countryside novels in reality is moving towards the depth and breadth of life step by step.