The Sprit Of Chinese Modern Countryside Novels

The modern countryside novel possesses a very long tradition,describes to those custom habits and social actuality, including the reminiscent subject with strong soil taste and region characteristic. China tradition homesick to love soil root as well as the emergence of the near modern society novel and the common people novel provided the vast background for the modern countryside novel.Beginning from Lu Xun, the countryside novel walked into the history vision field of modern times. The Lu Xun's countryside novels concerned about the existence of rural area, national character, and stressed on the duty of nation.Under his influencing,a batch of countryside novelists appeared . Fei Ming and Shen Congwen represented another kind of form of countryside novel . The style of their novels is pure and fresh, the writing is light and gentle, and they put effort to the enlightenment of suffering nation. In process of history recalling and the future's fabrication , they expressed the desire to remodeling national moral character.This kind of suffering consciousness is inherent and deep,full of solemn sense and the tragedy. With Lu Xun together ,they decomposed and reconstructed our national character.As modern intellectual, countryside novelists inherited and developed the enlightenment tradition of near and modern times in form of considering and criticizing national character. On one hand the true difficult position at the unrestful modern China society have reappeared, The inaccessible, backward and ruined rural area, under heavy pressures of synthetic system ,corrupt old customs and society factor, have completed opened out. And the novels portrayed nation deep-rooted bad habits and national soul that deep into sleep. Ignorant and numb spirit chronic illness to the masses was also criticized. On the other hand, power, together with perfect harmony ,has recalled and thirsted for. They tried hard to put vigor of life and original motive force into the ancient nation again.The modern countryside novel is more thoroughly carrying on the consideration to native soil humanity. Countryside novelists were affected by the conflict of civilization and wild nature, commerce society and natural state in the trend of modern times. Between tradition and modern, country feeling and the rational faculty, history criticize and morals judging, countryside writer faced a difficult choice of attaching or criticizeing hometown. They attached importance to the value and dignity of life,and deeply worried about life being strangled or brushed aside, full of life consciousness. At the same time,the mission of humanism person made them call on integrity and healthiness about human nature, criticize the modern tragedy of the variation and lose of individuality at modern industry civilization.During depicting the countryside and human feelings, novelists has accomplished mentality course from sad to pity about individual's destiny and compassion of nation future. Under the society environment and tendency of those days,they thought deeply of the wayout to the suffering nation and the future of China.On one hand, they put sight on the masses's self-awaking and the lead of advanced class and thought. On the other hand, they construct a spirit homestead. In harmonious of person with nature, they had built a habitat for soil China and also for themselves. On the superorganic level they had accomplished salvation of nation.