| CHI Li, whose literary creation is inexhaustible, whose literary conception is pioneer and whose artistic aspiration is still exuberant, is a talented and important woman writer. Her novels focus on the life of ordinary people, and for 20 years she has kept on writing one novel after another, and hence the "CHI Li Phenomenon". Among the critiques about her novels, the common problem is about love and marriage, and yet little is mentioned about this problem. Therefore, in this paper, her novels are analyzed and decoded by using her viewpoint on love and marriage.First of all, CHI Li's ruthless overthrow of ideal love is dealt with in this paper. Love and marriage is a universal topic throughout the history of western and eastern countries, and thus the literary classics are those depicting touching love stories. CHI Li's viewpoint on love and marriage is in unity with the traditional culture. In the marriage-first-then-love marital life, love affairs are conducted in the passing of days, for romantic love may have an ending but the days to live seem endless. As a result, "living the days" determines the realistic existence of marital life. Chinese traditional marital view is that moment excitement of sexual activity is looked down upon while lasting and steady feelings of love are emphasized; physiological desire is looked down upon while family responsibility is emphasized; self-indulgence is looked down upon while tolerance and harmony are emphasized between husband and wife. Different regional cultures and background information may affect your understanding of the above view. CHI Li's viewpoint on love and marriage is closely connected with her cultural background, her life experience and the people's quality in her city. CHI Li implicitly persuade people to give up their ideal and be faced with the reality.In CHI Li's novels, either previous or recent novels such as "Conduct No Love Affairs", "Forever Running Green Water", "Lipstick", all of which are short of ideals, CHI Li interprets love as "conducting no love affairs", which serves both as a refusal and a proclamation—a simple life value is being established. This newly established life value not only means that family trivia and social relationship have destroyed love but also implies that the contemporary ideal value has totally lost.What CHI Li's love novels provide us with are comic and tragic stories in people's world of feelings. For those who fall in love with each other, most of them can maintain a steady marital relationship, though they are not quite satisfied with their marriage quality. Such phenomenon can be found in CHI Li's novels such as "Long Night", "Premeditated Murder", "Conduct No Love Affairs" and "You Are a River". In particular, CHI Li proclaims her unchanged viewpoint in "Coming and Going": conducting no love affairs, which serves both as her life philosophy and her ways of writing novels.The disappointing world of love and marriage created by CHI Li in her novels is doubt and refusal to romantic love, and her love novels are full of too many sorrows. In "Conduct No Love Affairs", CHI Li announces the love proclamation for contemporary townspeople. She thinks of love as a kind of imagination that is expressed by means of language, so what she emphasizes in her novels is her viewpoint of "conducting no love affairs", and she shows her understanding and respect to "living-the-days" marriage life.Compared to other contemporary women writers, CHI Li sets up a lower level of love affairs in her novels, which indicates that the marriage characteristic of Chinese people is "low in quality, high in steadiness". CHI Li once claimed that her literary works would focus on the theme of "exposing imagery love affairs", which can be found in her novel "Forever Running Green Water"; however, it is a pity that in this novel, the so called "romantic love" is only created by poets that doesn't exist in current society, and for those women who are no longer in their youth, they are not suita...
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