Mysticism: Disenchantment And Enchantment

As a kind of understanding world way and a kind of culture type, the mysticism is mainly shown as ghosts and gods' faith and animism in China, deeply kept among the folk, and reflected in the literary works. Generally speaking, mysticism went through from disenchantment to enchantment of ghosts and gods' faith among Chinese literature of the 20th century.In the early years of the Republic of China of last years of Qing Dynasty, China was still shrouded by ignorant culture. Under the call of the scientism, China thought circle launched criticizing ignorant culture, discussing about science and metaphysics, and the movement against religion. The culture linguistic context of disenchantment to China's native mysticism had been formed gradually. In this linguistic context, the modern novels served as to criticize folk ghosts and gods' culture and mysterious consciousness. At the same time, in the situation that evolutionism is popular, some the May Fourth elite intellectuals introduced the western mysticism, one kind of the New Romanticism, as the progressive culture to China. Then one phenomenon which included the paradox appeared. On one hand the native mysterious culture was criticized fiercely, on the other hand the western mysticism was translated, introduced and imitated actively. The mystique of the modern dramas and mystique inclination of the initial symbolism poems showed the passion of transplant of western mysticism. Until the latter stage of the twenties, these elites woke up from the illusion of the mysticism. Then they criticized such a mystique inclination. By latter stage of the thirties, some writers fell into the suspect to science. That God that comes back and the longing for the abstract in the works of Shen Congwen, indicated the existence of the skepticism of science. But on the whole, the disenchantmentto mysticism already turned into a kind of ideology.In the middle of the eighties, the vacuurn appeared for a time in the circle of the thought. The foreign anthropology, science of culture etc, were introduced to China. And Latin America magic realistic writers snatched Nobel Prize for literature, which let the New Period writers remember what Lu xun said, the more national, the world. Then the folk ghosts and gods' culture and primitive religion were regarded as the chip of going to the world by the New Period writers. Root-seeking writers, such as Han Shaogong, took the lead in stretching the brush to the remote folk. Vanguard Writers marked their own vanguard posture by depicting mystical world. After criticizing for one century of China's native mysticism culture, the mysticism had been enchanted in the literary works in New Period. The literary works of mysticism enchantment showed three kinds of different value positions. Some Root-seeking writers hold clear rational consciousness of science against ghosts and gods' culture. Some other Root-seeking writers, Jia Pingwa as one, Adopt the position that totally admits to folk mysticism culture, and have fallen into the mysticism on world outlook, Vanguard Writer mostly considered aesthetic factors and their vanguard identity, combined folk ghosts and gods' culture with modern aesthetic spirit in works.The mysticism from Disenchantment to enchantment Is closely related to process of ideology and culture in the 20th century of China. At the same time this course also shows mat China's literary of 20* century catered to the aesthetic needs in the west.