| The "Travel Essay" we called habitually is a significant apartment in modern Chinese literature. The paper studies on the locus of the develop in idea about modern Chinese travel essays what on the basis of Zhu Defa proposed the four elements called tracks, scenes, impressions and the literary form, since from 1949 when PRC was set up to now.It is divided in three phases by the hint of the development in idea about modern Chinese travel essays of the time we said.In the first phase, since from 1949 to 1979, the travel essays was acted as "the singer of the age's spirit" and "the tourist guide of the majestic scenes". It is being called "the Extremely Age of China" in that time, when "the center writers", just as Liu Baiyu, Yang Suo and Qin Mu, wrote the travel essays to describe the scenes in The New China which was not the same sight with The Old China daily and eulogized the mental outlook of the people of PRC, to be "the singer of the age's spirit". By the same time, "the remote writers", just as Ye Junjian and Ye Shengtao, wrote their travel essays just liked "the tourist guide of the majestic scenes" consciously and unconsciously, to avoid the troubles in politics.In the second phase, since from 1980's to now, the writers of the travel essays tried to found "the homeland of the spirit" outside. The three respects in this time were which worth to be pay attention to. First, "the home-village travel essays" which were wrote by Jia ping'ao in 1980's, by Zhang Wei in 1990's and by Liu Liangcheng in 2000's, whom recognized the birthplace of the writers himself to be "the homeland of the spirit", were used the natural scenes and the honest folk custom to set off by contrast the material desires and the vile practices in the modern cities. Second, "the finding-spirit's-homeland travel essays" which were wrote by Zhang Chengzi whom found his own "the homeland of the spirit" in the culture of un-Han-nationality. And the third one, "the travelers travel essays" which were wrote by Zhou Tao and Wang Yingqi, whom was worried, unpeaceful and discontented to repudiate the present situation intensely, but, really, whom did not know the way to go for themselves and... |