A Study Of National Imagination In Shen Congwen’s Writings From 1949 To 1988

In the history of Chinese modern and contemporary literature,Shen Congwen is a litterateur with profound national consciousness and national feelings.Shen Congwen,who was born in Fenghuang,western Hunan in 1902 and died in Beijing in 1988,spans both modern and contemporary times.His literary works not only have a profound and comprehensive aesthetic reflection on the old China in the first half of the 20 th century,but also express the rapidly changing social scene after the founding of new China in a large number of words.Compared with the research category of shen Congwen’s earlier novels using Xiangxi as a metaphor for The image of China,few people have talked about shen Congwen’s national imagination after the founding of new China.This paper takes shen Congwen’s national imagination(1949-1988)as the research object,combines the theory of nation-state imagination,systematically analyzes the national image constructed by Shen Congwen,as well as the writing motivation,creative principles and artistic characteristics of shen Congwen’s national imagination,in order to comprehensively analyze and investigate the values and meaning of Shen Congwen’s later Chinese imagination.After the founding of new China,shen congwen accepted the new social ideological transformation of intellectuals,through a series of political learning and social education,gradually change the liberal thought of its previous position and accepted marxism,completed the transformation of thought,and also adjusted the literary and artistic creation ideas,strengthen the art serve for socialist countries social function of art,Strengthened the realism principle of literary creation.This direct change is reflected in shen Congwen’s writing of humanity in the early stage giving way to his writing of the overall image of the country after the founding of new China.Expand the literary field of vision in literary writing,shen congwen,from the perspective of the combination of macro and micro,choosing diversified subjects,such as novels,prose,letters,but style,give priority to with the documentary writing way,aesthetic construct the image of "new rural" image of "new city" and "cultural image of the great powers",trying to draw the picture of the People’s Republic of China abandon one part with each passing day.There is no doubt that Shen Congwen’s spirit of stylistic experimentation is valuable.Especially,he gave full play to the feature of letters and presented various kinds of social and historical information in the epistolary prose of land reform in southern Sichuan and travel notes in the way of potential writing.Of course,The problem of Shen Congwen’s national imagination not only came into his literary thinking after the founding of new China,but also the construction of rural space in western Hunan in his early stage.After the founding of New China,Facing a world-changing and unprecedented new era,and based on his profound national feelings,Shen Congwen still did not lose his literary life and ideal,actively devoted himself to the construction of new China,and increased the strength of national imagination.Hisliterary creation,as a whole,belongs to the grand narrative of new China’s national imagination and writing,which tries to reflect the history of blood and fire of new China’s national rebirth from fire and struggles to develop,and constitutes an important link of national imagination in the practice of Chinese socialist literature and art.Shen cong-wen reconstructed the sense of responsibility of Chinese traditional intellectuals,reconstructed the cultural identity of contemporary intellectuals,upheld the creative spirit of rational cognition,and constructed the image of new China aesthetically.The reconstruction of national culture is the core element of Shen Congwen’s national imagination.After the founding of New China,Shen cong-wen devoted himself to the reestablishment of national history and culture,showing great enthusiasm and determination.There is no doubt that shen congwen’s thoughts on the reconstruction of Traditional Chinese national culture and the vision of cultural development in his writing of national imagination have profound social significance and value.It is necessary to control the modulation of the electronic structure and properties of materials for the real large-scale applications in the fields of quantum energy,catalysis and light,and electrical components.It is necessary to control the modulation of the electronic structure and properties of materials for the real large-scale applications in the fields of quantum energy,catalysis and light,and electrical components.