Research On Gansu’s New Period Novels From The Perspective Of Folk Customs

As a human collective cultural consciousness,folklore has a natural blood relationship with the novel.The writers will be influenced by folk culture in the process of novel creation.At the same time,novels and folk customs have inherent identity.The novels mainly describe people as human beings,while folklore is a kind of human-centered activity.Combining a literary genre with a large social capacity and a folklore will produce a richer meaning.Gansu’s literature has made remarkable achievements since the new period,.With the rise of western literature in the Chinese literary world,the subjective consciousness of Gansu’s writers has also been strengthened.Their creations have focused more on the exploration of local culture and life consciousness.There gradually formed a Gansu’s writer community with distinct regional characteristics and became a writer group that cannot be ignored in Chinese literary world.In the new era of rapid development of the modernization process,Gansu’s economic,cultural and social experience is undergoing rapid changes.How to protect the local culture and promote the humanistic spirit in the trend of the times is a common problem faced by Gansu’s writers.The folklore writing of the novels of the new period is one of the cuts into this issue.The combination of novels and folklore is an important tradition of Chinese novels.Especially in modern times,folklore in novels is often given more meaning.This thesis takes folklore and narrative rhetoric as the research method,starting from the main intention of the writers in the new era of Gansu,and studying the role of folklore in promoting the development of Gansu literature and its appearance under the enlightenment discourse in the artistic representation of the author’s folklore writing,and analyzing the aesthetic characteristics of folk writing.The study of folklore in the novels of Gansu New Period must be carried outunder the framework of the literary trend of the new era and the western literature.The diverse and splendid cultural background of Gansu and the enhancement of the subjective consciousness of Gansu’s writers in the process of the rise of western literature contributed to the diverse forms of folk writing in Gansu’s novels.At the same time,the folklore writing in Gansu’s novels also rises with the arrival of the new enlightenment trend,leaving the humanistic spirit,and the folk writing will lose its essential meaning.It is precisely in the inheritance and development of the enlightenment thought in modern China that the folklore writing in Gansu’s novels has taken a firm step in the pulse of the times that are constantly surging in the new era.Gansu’s writers are also carrying forward humanitarianism and nationalism.Gansu’s writers have also formed a unique folklore mechanism in the continuous exploration of folklore writing.Gansu’s writers continue to construct the western space in the folklore writing.At the same time,under the infiltration of western folk culture,Gansu’s novels also have the "Western characteristics".The western poetic culture brings the inherent lyricism to Gansu’s novels.The rich and colorful folk language culture of Gansu makes the novel illuminate the vitality of life.In addition,the wild folk psychology of Gansu’s writers and the plot of folklore conflicts in the novels are also an indispensable part of the study of folklore writing in Gansu’s new period novels.