Connection Between Life And Death

Paper is intended to solve the memorial literary and its cultural transformation inthe context of modernity from the late Qing dynasty to the May Fourth. Under theframing of the issue, offering itself is not an important focus of object, but rather as amethod to cut in literary studies, to try to dig the "National martyr","Losing love"and "Tao dies" of three propositions in the process of the modern literature. Thatembodies literature significance of national sacrifice, patriotic martyr, the culturalpast scholars’ memory, patriotic martyrs’ honor, as well as the appearing of"individual/group","ancient/present" and "Chinese/Western" different memory ofemotional experience and understanding of life in the changing of mourn ceremony.The period of the late Qing dynasty to the May Fourth is the Chinese traditionalculture and foreign culture frequently contact collision and integration period. It alsoformed an exchange and transition cultural context of an "exhausting" and "change","back" and "into","take" and "residential", Chinese literature also presents a differentfrom the traditional with the new features of modern transitions. Therefore, in theprocess of "new" literature, the important content is offering culture, as well as in thecultural pattern generating value efficacy, emotional release, life experience andliterary narrative. After all, offering is the most fundamental of condolences andcustom, in the implementation of "politics and religion" and "weathered", maintainingpower/ethics/order system stability. It connects the vestibule of life and death,achieves emotional communication of the two spaces of this world and theunderworld. It not only is a farewell ceremony of the deceased, providing theemotional comfort and psychological sustenance to the living, but also is theresponsibility to clean and regulate the order of social ethics and responsibility. Yetthis "offering traditional" which experienced the west culture shock and the localsituation change had occurred a variety of changes since the late Qing dynasty, andhad formed a new colorful landscape, while also had built a dialogue space forChinese and Western culture to review the offering traditions. Therefore, how toexamine the "offering traditional" changes, and comb the various life and culture fields of "individual/group" ethics, life and death, spiritual comfort, life experiences,which formed a complex and flexible "reconstruction" topic about the offeringliterature and its culture.How to define offering literature? Generally speaking, it includes not only themost basic of funeral orations or mourning text, but also refers those literary valuecreations which have basic melody in memory, contains the "Yin-Yang effect" of lifeextension, and reflect social life and death feeling by the form of language and art,especially present the daily life of psychological review of offering culture. Amongthem, showing national times connotation, revealing the fate of individuals andgroups under style changes, showing the deep experience of charming love andexploring the works of cultural dispute between new and old, occupies a veryimportant and prominent position. The mourning objects that literature concerns arecomplex and diverse, those include both the symbol authority of heaven, and theblood human affection; both the celestial phenomena, and the natural landscape ofmountains and rain; both the mourning for animal or plant, and the mourning forhuman, both the mourning for false gods, and the mourning for reality of human.Offering literature is not merely a performance of character codes, but precipitation ofhuman spiritual and psychological index. It is not exaggeration to say that, in the faceof the truth, the kin, the perfection and the death, it might be the most authenticfeeling and human characterization. At the same time, offering literary is not just aspecific emotion and art expression, it also presents diverse characteristics includingthe concept of life and death, the deathbed mentality, the love connection both thespace of Yin and Yang, and the abide of Confucianism ethics. It is the authenticrecords for the "National martyr","Losing love" and "Tao dies" three propositions.Therefore, in the process of modern national country construction, offering literaryand cultural transformation reflects the intellectual’s ideal construction which theoffering "should be", and this building actually pinned their desire for modernizationof the State power and national prosperity, as well as the anxiety and emotionalcatharsis facing to the Western powerful culture. It can be said that offering literaryplayed beautiful music that was different from the old era proposition. Offeringmourning not only throughout the whole text, trying to highlight the topics of the times; also can be hidden in the text, constituting the emotional tone and narrativeagainst the background of the story.Thesis will illustrate the construction processes of offering literary and itscultural transformation in the modern context of Chinese Literature. So it will beremarked several aspects which the origin and development of offering literary andthe construction of local culture, the redemption of offering emotional and the localoffering narrative, the impact and reconstruction of traditional from western offeringconcept, as well as the nationalism discourse.The first chapter will comb the offering literary by the way of source-type. Beginto illustrate the traditional offering concepts from death attitude, and continue todeepening the concept of offering with the social psychology content of"individuals-groups", and then explain the literature meaning imagination, whichincludes the changes of traditional offering patter and the change of "public morals"and the founded of "society" under the concerns of modern offering literary. Then, thesecond chapter will be under the proposition of "National martyr", to expose theoffering concept in the revolutionary upsurge how can be appeared by the literary textand how can reflected the unique social significance. And then reveals out thedifferent orientation and the literature recycling of the "anti-offering"/"returned tooffering" in the perspective views of science/political; then makes the necessaryculture research about the grand and solemn activities of offering Confucius. Thethird chapter will be from the angle of "Losing love", and through the specific textand related funeral orations, to analysis the emotional experience of offering in themodern transformation of late Qing and the May Fourth period, which contains theutopia of love and the sacrifice and the complex psychological experience of MayFourth Nirvana. Subsequently, the fourth chapter will stand on the position of "Taodies", and research perspective will be extended to May Fourth period, and in thecomparison of local/Western mutual reference to discussed in detail the twoconstruction of each other at the level of culture/literature, excavate the legitimacyand rationality of ghosts views and offering views under the preaching of atheism, aswell as the died human sacrifice spirit and faith under the decline of traditionalculture, and comb how the writers achieve their offering concept writing under effect of western knowledge discourse. And the relationship between offering cultureand Lu Xun’s literature creation will be taken as a case to be careful analysis.