Difference And Yardstick

In modern literary history, the popular literature represented by the school of Yuanyanghudie has been the main force in the field of literature between the last years of the Qing Dynasty and the first years of the Republic of China, and accordingly has made an everlasting contribution in history. But with the rise of the New Culture Movement, it was regarded as the barriers which hindered the development of new-vernacular literature and was therefore turned down completely. Given the trend of social development, the school of Yuanyanghudie was criticized because it is to some extent conservative and feudal-minded, and the criticism conform to anti-feudalism trends. But, evaluating from the social character and literary quality of the school of Yuanyanghudie, it is in fact realistic literature which exposes the dark aspect of the society and heartily sympathize with the lower strata of the society. This positive element should have been approved, however, it was overwhelmed with negative criticisms instead. Of course, it is not correct. Now we should give it a practical and realistic analysis from the perspective of history, rejecting what deserves to be rejected, accepting those of value. In this way we attempt to clarify the truth of the history and life, consequently, making the school of Yuanyanghudie a wing of modern literature history and reshining brilliantly.Especially, the new-vernacular literature writers should obtain experiences and draw lessons from the three criticisms on popular literature to enrich and replenish themselves, and they should continuously correct the limitations and one-sidedness of their critical methods so as to keep them dialectical and complete, thus offering people with further and more profound philosophical enlightenment, moreover, contributing to the creation of a harmonious literature and the bloom of a hundred flowers. (a free development of different forms and styles in the arts) As a result, they will surely make the new-vernacular literature and the school of Yuanyanghudie soar and fly side by side.Literary creation clearly indicates that the new-vernacular literature and the school of Yuanyanghudie might as well learn from each other to acquire their respective strong points to offset their own weaknesses. To be more exact, the latter could emulate the seriousness of the former while the former may learn interest from the latter. By means of this, people can enjoy the pleasure of life in the games, the games will be abundant in the pleasure of life. Also, owing to the blending of the seriousness with games, the serious writings can have a touch of ease, leisure and pastime. If both of them circulate and accomplish without coming into conflict, then they will reveal their own characteristics. For instance, the novels of national crisis and swordsman fictions do contain national sense/awareness in the interesting plots. Isn't that true?We can also see that the elementary characteristic of the school of Yuanyanghudie is advocating tender feelings in novels. It is unique for its mere emphasis on human emotions, feelings as tender and soft as water. This is its spirit and soul. It has influenced the new-vernacular writers and the whole modern literature history as well. What is more, the new-vernacular novels are somewhat tender and sentimental when describing love affairs. Is its description of affection peculiar to the school of Yuanyanghudie?The thesis mainly uses substantial evidence and historical method. Through the analysis of popular literature texts, we expect to turn down the wrong words foisted on popular literature and display its original literary features so as to evaluate its value and significance objectively and fairly.Concretely speaking, the thesis has selected several important aspects from the three massive criticisms and made a dialectical analysis of the key issues such as"The literary idea about recreation and pastime";"Feudalistic ideology of the popular literature";"the Artistic form of the popular literature";"the Market orientation of the popular literature", besides, the thesis has reflected on the cause of the differences between the new-vernacular literature writers and the popular literature, and their own advantages and disadvantages.