Study On Roving Motif Of Zhang Wei's You Are On The Highland

Zhang Wei is one of the most representative writers in Chinese contemporary literature,from the late 1970 s to the new century,more than 30 years literary tour has always been a trek on thoughts of spiritual journey.Although there was transition of the style and ups and downs in the attitude,it was the perseverance of thought from beginning to end.The creation of "You are on the highland" is like a marathon to Zhang Wei,which integrates history of folk family,national modernization,and the spirit of intellectual while “roving” is always a motif throughout the "You are on the highland".Roving of people from all walks appear in his works,and it seems to be a universal consciousness of life or survival experience.Roving is not only a transfer in physical space but also in spiritual and life space,which is particularly represented by intellectuals' wanting to escape from the city to get rid of the lost of the spirit and desolate feeling.People who rover have no alternative in origin,which is people's breakthroughs under the anxiety and fear for the status quo,and the suspicion and confusion of future.Through the analysis of Zhang Wei's "You Are On The Highland",this paper endeavors to investigate the specific reasons why different crowds rover,and clearly presents the hidden thoughts and spiritual implication of writer under the writing of “roving” motif,and learning Zhang Wei's view and observation of the whole time from the exploration of "roving" motif,This paper is divided into three parts except introduction and conclusion.The introduction mainly introduces the research background and significance,review of the research situation of Zhang Wei's domestic creation,and evolution of the “roving” motif from the ancient to the modern times,at home and abroad.Beginning with characters,chapter one depicts four main types of vagrants in the novel: the roving penitent,strayer,homeless victims,the rebels.And this chapter interprets the survival state and roving road of these homeless in the large background.The second chapter explores the causes of homeless' being placed under state of roving and makes a comprehensive analysis and discussion for factors that contribute to the state.Generally speaking,these factors include: repression of power order on people's personality;spiritual destroy of the "Satanism" in the human nature;soul suffering on individual life from materialism;rural destitution and survival misery under the ecological imbalance.The third chapter mainly studies the connotation of Zhang Wei's spiritual and cultural philosophy behind the writing of “roving” motif,namely the author's calls for reconstruction of moral ideal,appeal to Confucianism thought,return to wild country,pursuit of spiritual on the highland.It is author's saving of vagrant,spiritual holding onto himself and spiritual healing and remedy of symptom in the age.Conclusion is the summary of Zhang Wei's thought."Roving" is a kind of life form in the"You are on the highland”,the resistance and surpass on the vulgar reality.However,Zhang Wei settled ideal belongs to "highland",which is the plateau of spirit and character,and a spiritual salvation that generations of intellectuals looking for.