Xiangxi Culture And Shen Cong-wen's Novels

Shen Cong-wen is known as a local writers.His series of Xiangxi novels has great artistic charm. Modern native literature of Hunan has two traditions-Zhou Li-bo's and Shen Cong-wen'. Shen's Xiangxi novels were wrriten in local social customs and habits, but Zhou's novels sucked the functioning of local literature in the more prominent political. The Xiangxi world of Shen cong-wen's local novels is different from three to four decades of others, such as the Northeast Writers. Shen's local novels are the performance of erotic. There is compromise between mankind and nature.People are of naturally outspoken personality and Eat Drink Man Woman in the world.Shen Cong-wen put the bitter missing on Xiangxi into his novels. He insists on expressing the praise and miss of the rural beauty.Shen's urban novels are related to native ones.Xiangxi culture and urban life together created the novels of Shen.These two culture are the complete harmony of mixing oil and water. Xiangxi culture plays a decisive role on Shen's life and his fictions. There is a intense collision between urban and local culture.Urban expierencep provide a new perspective for Shen.They play an important role in Shen's novels. This paper focus on the formation of Xiangxi culture, meaning,characteristics and the relationship between Xiangxi and urban culture. It will research the cultural connotations.This article is divided into three major parts:The first part is an introduction of the history image and the literature image of Xiangxi culture. From the ancient period (before the Qing Dynasty) to modern (the Qing Dynasty to the Republic), modern (three to four decades) and contemporary (after the Founding date), the image of Xiangxi has changed from the middle of nowhere and bravery of the people to the "Border Town" St. environment.The second part is the body part divided into six chapters. From the first chapter to the second chapter are introduced geography, history and culture of Xiangxi,focused on the natural environment, ethnic and cultural origins and historical development. Xiangxi has a lot of rivers and mountains.Miao, Tujia, Yao, Dong, Hui, Uygur and other ethnic minority inhabit mixed with the Han. It is the traditional agriculture economy and the administrative system based on the chieftain system. Xiangxi culture is mysterious such as loving with the cave god and Miao kodoku.The basic characteristics of Xiangxi culture is of the military and the integration.Chapter III of the paper discuss on influence on the life experiences and personality with the specific historical context.Han and Miao mixed blood,military family and Xiangxi culture shaped the sensitive and aesthetic character of Shen. Modern urban culture gave him a perspective that he has to re-examine for Xiangxi. Stimulatiang of urban life-the plight of lonely distress, prompting, Shen began to think deeply the question of national culture and character.It helped him remark the Xiang world in literature. Chapter IV to VI of the work is a analysis about Shen's novels. In the background of Xiangxi culture, we will dwell on aesthetic and cultural meaning. The history and culture of Xiangxi created the tragedy and personalization of novels of Shen. Meanwhile, Shen elaborated the weird folk legend in psychology and sociology theories. He tried to remove the mystery of legend and culture and restore a real Xiangxi world.The third part is the conclusion mainly for the foundation of psychological and social cultural which brought the opposition of local world and city culture of Shen's novels,.