Release And Comformity: The Interpretation To Chinese Traditional Culture By Lu Xun's Old Tale Retold

Since the New Culture Movement, the pioneers, while introducing the outside culture and quickening the pace of nationalization and modernization, have never ceased the enthusiasm and practice of reassessing the traditional culture. Lu Xun's Old Tales Retold, whose original materials are based on the ancient mythologies, legends and history, is just the result of re-combing and interpreting the traditional culture. Known for his anti-traditional opinion, Lu Xun actually holds a positive attitude towards the traditional culture. Under the culture shock from the outside, Lu Xun, the subject of historical connection, takes a clear overview of the ancient cultural resources and keeps a complete record of them through Old Tales Retold in order to find out the vitality and modern value of the originality of traditional culture.Lu Xun starts his re-interpretation of the traditional culture from analyzing cultural originality and influence of the elitist culture such as Confucianism, Taoism and Monism. As the cultural resources for the later generation, they are measured objectively and fairly by Lu Xun from the apects of their function and significance during the process of Chinese culture development. The memorization and contemplation upon these resources reflects Lu Xun's elitist consciousness to inherit the intrinsic lineage of the native culture for its rebirth. As the vast background of cultural development, folk culture and mundane force form another important aspect of Lu Xun's cultural anatomy. The folk culture compensates idol authority and presents the logic of culture from being elitist to secular. Lu Xun deposits the contrast and retrospection of elitist culture and mundane culture, through whose contradiction and intertextuality he contemplates upon the possibility of the modernization and rebirth of the traditional culture.After the juxtaposition of the two chronotopes, Lu Xun also reveals the coherence in Old Tales Retold between the ancient and modem, which interwove in the context and constitute a slippery aesthetic sense and hetero glossia narrative.