The Historical Narration Under The Influence Of Huxiang Culture

Cultural environment usually has a decisive effect on people's beliefs, thoughts, feelings and actions. Huxiang Culture lays stress on people's character accomplishment and the idea of study for the purpose of application and gives prominence to the consciousness of "worry amd concern", "indomitable spirits", "firm and unshakable wills", "unyielding characters",which causes a lot of outstanding people to emerge in modern times in Hunan province. Tang Haoming is deeply influenced by Huxiang Culture because of his family background and working environment. The cultural worry and concern derived from the consciousness of "worry and concern" and the sense of responsibility to inherit and propagate culture coming from the idea of study for the purpose of application are Tang Haoming's essential motivation for literature writing, which distinguish Tang Haoming from other authors. Tang Haoming treats history with due respect and takes a cautious attitude towards historical facts so that his works represent the standard style of epic on a whole.Human beings are not only the products of certain cultural environment but also the creators of cultural environment. Literature, in essense, is a kind of cultural construction behavior. After a thorough study of Huxiang Culture for more than two decades, Tang Haoming, through the destiny and spiritual conflict of the intellectuals, writes with passion and reason the ambition to serve the people and country and their stout characters of the great people born in Hunan province in modern China's humiliatory and infirm history from the standpoint of intellectuals. Tang Haoming has made the most comprehensive, systematic and vivid literature interpretation of the spirit of Huxiang Culture in modern literature history. Tang Haoming's historical novel hasconsolidated and reproduced the hidden and indomitable vitality and characters in the original Confiisian Culture through the vivid plots description and image depiction. In the meanwhile, he critically affirms the traditional culture dominated by Confucianism and passes on the wisdom of history.However, Tang Haoming doesn't have blind faith in history, and nor does he confirm Huxiang Culture totally. On the contrary, he adopts tragic conception consciously to describe the perseverance and hardness of the modern Confucians who had the ambition to serve the people and country and the modern intellectuals in Hunan province as well as their gainlessness and sadness. Tang embodies the cultural and historical plights by the tragedy of the modern intellectuals to analyze the thoughts of Confucian and Huxiang Culture and reproduces the humiliatory and infirm tragic period in Chinese history. At the same time, he reflects Chinese traditional culture comprehensively in the global context and seeks for the value of a person.