Henan Rural Literature In The Modern Cultural Context

The rural literature plays an important role in the 20th century Chinese literature history, and in fact, it shows conflict and combination between traditional culture and modernization, the clue of which will become clearer if we can observe rural literature by putting it into changes of cultural context of a century. It can be said that "modern" is the dominant cultural element in the 20th century Chinese society, and "rural" is the ideal surroundings that literature thinks over nation and living condition of the people. From going after intensively western trend to paying attention to absorbing modern trend and local characters, and therefore setting up national target are not only a trend of the new literature but also a kind of behavior that realistic literature becomes mature. For making this transferring course clearer, the thesis will exemplify Henan rural literature.It will have great meaning that showing modern cultural context shapes rural literature through the changes of the Henan rural literature because Henan has special status and great influence in ancient tradition. The Henan rural literature goes through a series of course from awareness to development. The thesis analyses writing of the Henan rural literature at different periods through some typical examples such as Yao Xueyin, Lizhun, Zhang Yigong, Liu Zhenyun and Li Peifu. The thesis not only summarizes the total feature and dominant cultural character of Henan writers but also tries to find out some reasons of their shortcomings and corresponding solving measures.On the whole, the Henan rural literature has formed dominant cultural character to criticism about negative value of rural culture. On one hand, itpoints out the deepness that writing thinks about tradition. On the other hand, it aggravates the prejudice on understanding miserable topic. In the modern literature field, not only Henan writers but also many writers from other provinces have the fault of ideas being before topic that limits and holds back the deep depression to literature. Firstly the thesis analyses obvious rural feeling of Henan writers and their some features on criticism of negative value to rural field. Secondly, the thesis gives several examples such as the description of Yan Lianke about misery, the analysis of Liu Zhenyun about civil power and the criticism of Li Peifu about family. Lastly, the thesis analyses the shortcomings of ideas being before topic on the miserable tragedy in the writing of Henan rural literature.On the basis of summarizing the achievements and shortcomings of Henan rural literature, the thesis points out corresponding methods of succeeding and transcending and presents the approaches that solves the short of rural consideration and the misery losing truth. Besides preserving rural standpoint and reflective spirit of the rural experience, writers still should stretch the development fields of rural literature to show the relation between human and earth, have deep-seated cultural quality, and write fortune and human beings. Only if writers could reach the degree from deepness to stretching, the transcending of rural literature became possible.