Classical And Harmonious Beauty In Shen Congwen's Works

As a representative writer of "Jing Schoor,Shen's main achievements in literature lies in setting his special "Xiang Xi" world through fiction and prose with his independent aesthetic idealism. Here, he start from a typical perspective (humanism), applying special theme (the description of primitive landscapes of Xiang Xi ).This article try to penetrate into the value of literate appreciation of beauty. It believes that, under the profound influence of traditional culture, the classical and harmonious beauty is embodied in Shen's works; meantime ,we cannot deny that his works not only have the scarcely aesthetic judgement, but maintain a certain kind of modernity .Through the interchange and unconscious to possess a kind of concern and sympathy to the world outside human beings ,and an awesome sense of natural lives ;meanwhile ,with the understanding of the classical and harmonious beauty in Shen's works ,we can study the writers such as Feiming ,Wang Zengqi, etc ,who have the similar style .This article mainly focus on five different parts:First, introduction. The classical and harmonious means to compose the gradients of beauty such as object, man and nature, individual and society, etc, into a balance and integrate entirety .The beauty of harmony differs from the occidental thinking model that is separate into object. It emphasize the co-existence the aesthetic subject and its environment and fully us the unity of subject and object in aesthetic realm and the blend of matters. Shen's literature world is the exchange and blend of the modern insights and ancient literature's aesthetic meaning.Second , portrait of the harmony between man and nature . With the complex and changing geographic environment If Xiang Xi and its lagged-behind economy, the isolation made it possible to protect the independent value of the primitive natural ecology . Therefore , he beauty of natural ecology is embodies is embodies here .There weren't any reign ,tax ,or the invasion and bully of modern civilization .Man and nature co-exist peacefully.Third, the harmonious picture of man and society .What Shen's works want to tellis a not-dehumanized lifestyle that is beautiful ,sound and natural .From this view of life, with constant expression of the life of the lower-classes ,Shen try to search and study ,from a typical life form in Xiang Xi , the harmonious beauty of natural life , humanism, man and man ,man and society.Forth, traditional culture details in Shen's works The profound Divine Chu culture in Xiang Xi, as a living fossil, directly influenced Shen in his deeper cultural nature endowment. Also, it is the historical origin of the beauty of humanism in his works, Divine Chu culture mainly originated from Taoism. Xiang Xi, where he was born, was seldom influenced by the so-called Central Plains culture-confusion since ancient time. Its human nature scarcely being influence by sets of moral concepts of Han feudalism. Therefore, it reveals as a kind of simple and indulgent appearance. Shen's sense of the beauty of nature and human are deep-rooted as a kind of cultural unconsciousness, since he was born. The key, of course, is the spirit of Taoism. Taoism reject the patriarchal clan system, worship nature, resist the moral concepts of confusion. The dominance of Shen's philosophy of life and thoughts of beauty lies in Taoism. The realm of beauty of his works is the glittering points of Taoism.Fifth, Shen's pursuit of total harmony ecology embodies the attempt to set up an united and free ideal appreciation of beauty in the mutually existed relations. His emotional world multi-factedly show us the ecological value of the natural lives and the "subject " lives which are mutually blended and dependent on. It reach a dream of life equalism between the structure of man and man, man and nature. Shen's works is full of harmonious beauty of classical ideology. It has not only the significant meaning for remodeling the national spirit at that time, but also an active influence in purifying humanity, mediating mood, cheerin...