Comment On The Consciousness Of Redemption Of Bai Xianyong

Bai Xianyong is the contemporary Chinese literary world renowned writer of fiction; he has higher status in the history of TaiWan literature. His novels are saturated with the hero's hoplessness, sadness and loneliness about life; they struggled in their misery, still to no avail. Though all of these miserable souls. The author showed the conflict between the soul and flesh in the human world, people's helplessness experienced in cultural differences, the useless struggle in their history and fate and the hard choice they made when the morality is confronted with the ethics. These four conflicts reflect the author's ultimate concern to human.Confronting the difficult position that humans are born with, Bai Xianyong, instead of just being a stander-by, takes the responsibility of redeeming the tormenting souls and seeking the hope and happiness for them in reality to make them feel no confusion and hesitation. Therefore, he searches for a way for us, namely, carnality caution, and then redemption of spiritualism. In the writer's artistic world,"spirit"symbolizes mind and life while"flesh"confirms death and carnality. The author aims to tell the importance of spiritualism. People are able to find the direction of their life and look forward to the future only when they keep remembering and praising the past glory deeply and highly, which is the best way to nourish the human spirit and redeem their soul. Without spiritualism, human can only lead their life numbly like a walking ghost and they will lose the dignity they are supposed to have.Besides, to the conflict between the morality and the ethics and the troubles caused by the cultural diversity, author's prescription is"love"to save and cultural fusion to break down the barriers resulting form divergences, which makes people enjoy the culture. The love of Bai Xianyong in the novel is forgiveness and understanding. The sense of spiritual identification between persons sprouts in the resonate by treating others as we expected to be treated, which makes the"marginal man"living in trouble accepted by the mainstream. And then the author describes a harmonious world full of warmth. This is the magic of"love". And this compassionate atonement is represented, in the fierce conflict between different cultures, by taking the essence and discarding the dregs. The western culture is in the powerful position in the modern development. The features—rationality, pragmatism and efficiency—help it meet the need of developing times, and it rapidly expands and influences the eastern civilization characterized by the emotion, implication and moderation. We can imagine how painful and embarrassed people living in the weak culture are. They seem like surviving in the cracks. Therefore, Bai Xianyong advocates saving the declined culture and incorporating the tradition into the modernism through keeping the essence of tradition and reforming the shackles updated to the times. So that we should learn the essence of western culture as the nourishment of traditional culture in the new times to reach a harmonious state between the Eastern and Western cultures.His consciousness of redemption are now everywhere in his works. He had an anticipatory taste of loneliness when he was young by losing his mother before he went study abroad, which made him understand that human's smallness in front of the death. As a homosexual, he feels injustice that this special group is relegated to the sidelines. Such experiences confirm him that human beings are painful in most of the time. Being influenced by Chinese and western culture, he has his own way to relieve people from your pain—to construct his world of literature. He was creating a"New World"for those who are unsatisfied with the reality, in which one can find his own exit and destination for his heart and soul.Bai Xianyong has been performing his duties with his literature works, enlightening people on the quest for good lives. He exceeds himself in his world of literature, tries to find a final way to the Harmonious World, which is not only the author's dream, but also a common spiritual search of all.