Research On Chen Yan’s Novels

Chen Yan is an important realistic writer in the literary world of Shannxi.His works are based on the traditional Chinese opera culture,paying attention to the spiritual ecology of common people and telling Chinese stories.His works have an impact on the contemporary literary world.Chen Yan’s creation has become an important topic in the study of Shaanxi literature and contemporary Chinese literature.Therefore,it is of great value and significance to study Chen Yan’s novels.Story is the main body of a novel,and constant value is the core of a novel,which is an important content of Chen Yanwen’s theory.As far as his view of story is concerned,Chen Yan advocates facing the real life of the common people and protecting the society of the common people;Construct the ideal state of the great era and tell the Chinese story well.From the main idea of his novels,the excavation of Qin opera art and traditional culture is the two main context of Chen Yan’s novels.The theme of Chen Yan’s novels focuses on paying homage to the art of Qin opera,sticking to the traditional spirit and reflecting the urban and rural civilization.Qin opera is the center of the novel.Chen Yan endows the characters with profound cultural details,gives full play to the cultural advantages of Qin opera,and reconstructs cultures in China.When telling the story of Common people,Chen Yan affirmed the noble traditional spirit of common people in the plight of survival.In the process of China’s transformation,Chen Yan deeply thought the complexity of human nature and the realistic dilemma in the transformation of urban and rural areas.When Chen Yan tells Chinese stories,he not only pursues the diversity of texts,but also alternates the omniscient perspective of bird’s-eye view and the limited perspective of character perception;In addition,the narrative subject differentiation is used to make the narrator intervene and the narrative subject differentiate alternately to construct the implied author;It not only follows the time line of the story,but also skillfully arranges the narrative time.The deformation of time and sequence completely presents the development of the story.Chen Yan’s novels not only broaden the writing space of drama novels,but also enrich the writing content of new rural novels.However,relying too much on the creative experience of traditional Chinese opera leads to the weakness of the characters,which not only ignores the description of the characters’ psychological activities,but also forms the flat characteristics of the characters.Chen Yan’s novels tell Chinese stories based on Chinese experience in order to discover culture of China,which is closely related to his constant contact with Qin opera.Through the novel,Chen Yan let Qin opera come into the literature,go out of Shaanxi,even to the world.This is his strong ambition.The deeply study of his novels can not only make readers better understand Shaanxi culture,but also provide reference for the current literary creation.