| Zhang Ailing and Bai Xianyong, are two important writers in the Chinese present age history of literature. They have the certain similarity in aspects of family background, personal experience and so on, but tragedy consciousness then is the prominent cultural characteristic which their noves altogether have. There are extremely many commentary and research on Zhang Ailing and Bai Xianyong in domestic and foreign countries, and many scholars to make the comparison to them, but there are few articles of cultural research on their tragedies consciousness.This article then attempts, by the method of the comparative literature parallel research, to compare tragedy consciousness of Zhang Ailing's novels with those of Bai Xianyong's in creation displays in the thought connotation and esthetics pursue aspect "similarity" and "difference".Tragedy consciousness which presents in the literary work is well-established in a long history. In the western history of literature, as early as the ancient Greece there is the tragedy esthetics, in the classical literature of our country, it is not until "Hong Lou Meng" that the tragedy in the true significance appeared. It is Lu Xun during the modern time who has opened the new beginning of modern literature tragedy consciousness. He not only paid attention to the external destiny change, but also demonstrated the intrinsic soul struggling with the conflict. Tragedy consciousness which was opened by him has, in the present contemporary literature, continued and reformed. Zhang Ailing, Bai Xianyong may be said to continue and develop his literature consciousness in certain aspects.Zhang Ailing and the Bai Xianyong's works have all displayed the strong... |