Looking For The Other Shore Of Life Through "Buddha"'s Insight

During the period of "5.4 Movement", Xu Di Shan had already begun to pursue the philosophies of "Buddhism" warmly. His works developed a school of his own among the new writers because of the dense religion color. And the most remarkable character was that he drew lessons from the theory methods of Buddhism, and then used them in his creation theories. These behaved in his article "Creation Three Elements & Appreciation Four Principles", which showed his literature and art view. Namely he thought the creation of new-vernacular literature should be provided with intelligence, life and beauty. In addition, he quoted the "Four Principles" of Buddha dharma to explain his own view on literature appreciation. Besides created works according to the religious doctrines of Buddhism, Xu Di Shan narrated tactics with narration tacticses of Buddhism. He adopted that Buddhists tell the principle of the advanced reason through the popular story, which had very good embodiment in his masterpiece "Peanut" and some other works. Except adopting the experiences of Buddhism for reference in creating the theory and tactics of narrating, he stressed the application on the image of Buddhism in his creation. For example, his novel "Ming Ming Bird" and "Daughter's Heart" used the image of "tower" and "fired fingers" to have the function of driving the plot to develop and display themes. As why the thoughts of "Buddha" had deep effect on Xu Di Shan and his creation, it is because that he was affected by "Buddha" since the childhood and always approached it initiatively all the time. We can say that he was born in an old and well-known Buddhism family; the memory when he was young had far-reaching influence on his whole life, and also made him show great interest on Buddha. However, the bumpy experiences let him have great concentration to Buddha. What's more, he wrote his own comprehension to Buddha dharma through the years' research.In the second part of the paper, it indicates Xu Di Shan's view on "bitter life" and "bitter world". Different from other writers, his opinion on "bitter" was connected with Buddhism's "Much Agony View", it was a kind of "bitter world". The creation of Buddhism was due to the suffering of masses of lower floors in India. The same happened in China. The "bitter" that Xu Di Shan wrote was from disaster-ridden Chinese society. He experienced "bitter" more than which he lost his wife and drifted from place to place, he had to face the "bitter" from the social aspects and common people, which was well explained in his prose collection "Kong Shan Ling Yu". While in his novels, he embodied the agony of love, surviving which was caused by the society, and also the agony from the bottom of heart of the injured who brought advanced awakening, and so on. These country hate, family worry and individual compassions of life experiences were entangled in his heart, which made him more eager to find a unique way to solve reality life's problems. Then, he turned to focus on "Buddha", wished to find the other shore of life in the suffering through "Buddha"'s insight. As both lives and the society were burdensome, Xu Di Shan sighed with sadness "life is bitter". But he did not shrink back in front of the suffering; on the contrary, he met the difficulty, and challenged life. In his works, he emphasized that people should give play to will strength. This is accordant with the firm quality and single-minded identical characters of will which Buddhism recommend. Except high praise of willpower, he also praised the awakenings of "people", which had extremely good behavior in his famous novel "Chun Tao". The heroine Chun Tao was a woman with perfect personalities. She constantly strove to become stronger, was bold and decisive in action, and regarded life as her first standard goal of life. All of these were the embodiments of "5.4 Movement" writers' spirits. The total amount of Xu Di Shan's works is not a lot, however, those glitter unique brilliant rays in Mode...