Children Discovery" And Modern Novel Creation In China

Children discovery" is one of significant themes during the May Fourth Period. It not only leads to the naissance of children literature and modern literature in China, but affects deeply the ideology, thought, artistic presentation (including children perspective) etc. With Chinese modern novels as its study object, this papers attempts to expound it thoroughly.As far as its essence is concerned, "children discovery", in nature, is adults' viewpoint of children perspective. Therefore, this paper starts with discussion about different authors' "children perspective". When we discuss the cultural background for "children perspective", it's easy to find that different schools of writers in different times may assume different attitudes towards children problem as a result of their different cultural ideology, aesthetic principles, life experience and personality goals. Consequently, different styles are presented in their texts in terms of ideology and artistic representation. In the 1920s and 1930s, works of left-wing writers and writers in literary proseminar incline to talk about children problems with humanitarianism and sociology as their standpoints; novels with children as their themes by Beijing writers may explore the ideal humanity in children from the aspect of humanity and elaborate on a certain similaritiesbetween children and original culture and spirit. War in the 1940s made northeastern writers study the meaning of life by recalling the origin of human race and themselves. The children perspective they took unanimously evoked the renovation of novels. It perfected the confirmation of children characteristics in artistic forms, symbolized substantive achievement for "children discovery", and offered more space for studying modern novels (culture). The elaboration on children perspective, therefore, becomes another problem on which the author will spill much ink.