Lu Xun's Writing And The Folk Culture

The contemporary Lu Xun studies in Chinese mainland, in the light of the potential norms of research environment, experienced roughly the following three stages: the political study from the 1950s to the 1980s; the ideological study from the 1980s to the early 1990s; and the cultural study since the 1990s characterized by openness and pluralism, a specific field of which the study of relationship between Lu Xun and the folk culture is.Objectively, once Lu Xun's works came into publication, the investigations into the relationship between his writing and the folk culture appeared. However, generally speaking, such investigations were not impressive because of their perceptualism, superficialism and unsystematicism with the fact that they were not the then researchers' primary intentions, and that most researchers were not familiar with literary and artistic folklore theories, though they offered some sort of perspectives.This is more an opportunity than a pity, for it clearly shows the possibility of studying Lu Xun again. Thus this dissertation, titled Lu Xun's Writing and the Folk Culture, employing literary and artistic folklore knowledge and the relevant methodologies, attempts to systematically interpret or elaborate , in term of writing, upon the relationship between Lu Xun and the folk culture as an addition and supplementary of the previous studies through concrete textual analysis and rational theoretical demonstration.The dissertation, to meet the general requirement of the topics construction and personal capability, is divided into eight parts with "introduction" and "conclusion" included.The Introduction mainly expounds the academic possibility of establishing the topic of Lu Xun's Writing and the Folk culture. In the descriptions of Lu Xun's actual writing and the previous studies, the stagnancy of general researchers accepting folk cultural ideas and the obscurity that the complex demonstration of Lu Xun's folk culture possibly brought about upon the above issue stand out, based upon which the academic value of this establishment is revealed.The first chapter, Lu Xun's Developing Interest in Folklore in Writing, aimed at the topic "Why did Lu Xun become interested in folklore in term of writing?" discusses specifically the reasons why folklore culture launched influence upon Lu Xun's writing from the three perspectives: personal experience, historical atmosphere and the intrinsic norms of writing purposes.The second chapter, Lu Xun's Views on Folklore, analyzes Lu Xun's understanding and thinking of folk culture around "How does Lu Xun look at folk culture?", reveals the valuable instantaneousness, separability and their academic implications in the expressions that appeared unsystematic and unprofessional ,within mutual references of specific ideas and perceptual writings.The third chapter, Folk Cultural Impact upon Lu Xun's Writing Theories, focuses on the issue "Where on earth does the folk culture inspire or affect Lu Xun's thinking of writing?" With different impacts being analyzed, Lu Xun's thinking of folk culture in term of writing is sorted out and summarized, along the emphasis upon the special contribution which the historical context and the subjective writing motives made to the formation of influences.The fourth chapter, The Folk Cultural Existing Forms and Expressive Symptoms in Lu Xun's Writing, deals mainly with the topic "In what way does folk culture exist in Lu Xun's works?" It is made up of two parts: the description of existing forms and summarization of expressive symptoms. Such structure is intended to show that folk culture, in Lu Xun's writing, is not only a passive phenomenon, but also an embodiment of highly subjective implication of the subjective writing intention.The fifth chapter, Lu Xun's Subjective Arrangement of Folk Culture in Writing, is concerned with the issue "How did Lu Xun treat or deal with the specific folk cultural materials in his writing practice?" Based on the careful text reading and comparing with other people, the chapter shows that Lu Xun's subjective arrangement not only carries his consistent instructive intention, but also implies his high aesthetic consciousness. The multiple writing pursuits in the subject itself objectively make the texts complex and profound in expression.The sixth chapter, The Writing Implications of Lu Xun's Folk Cultural Demonstration, explores about the question "What kind of influences did Lu Xun's folk cultural demonstration exert upon his writing?" The formation of cognitive model from folklore to individual spirit and then to national spirit, the discovery and application of tragic forms , appropriation of different artistic means and writing techniques, the exposure of writings locality and national characteristics, the appearance of multiple writing meanings caused by folk cultural demonstration, all of these indicate the possibility of national writers participating in the conversation on the world literary modernity with a personal voice.The Conclusion, Impact of Lu Xun 's Folk Cultural Demonstration in Writing upon the Later Chinese Writers' Writing, talks about the actual effect that Lu Xun's folk cultural demonstration in writing has produced in the development of modern and contemporary Chinese literature. Analyzing different writers' inherence and adaptation of Lu Xun, it is intended not only to show the significance Lu Xun's folk cultural orientation possesses for the development of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, but also to reveal that, as a modern writer with a broad world vision and sharply-defined national characters, the complexity and depth of Lu Xun's writing means new-born resources for the coming people.