The Family Problem In The Novels About Rural Cooperative Reform

"Family" is ever-green subject since ancient time. Chinese society has undergone great changes since modern time, and so with the family relations. As a result, literal works develop a different way in telling stories about family. The novels since modern literature times describe much more about leaving home and the hesitation when leaving home. In the novels about rural cooperative reform, the characters get rid of the hesitation in modern literature, but choose to leave traditional family firmly. The process also announced the end of the traditional family.This article first analyzes the historic background of the emergence of the rural novels in our literary world in the early days since the founding of People's Republic of China and then analyzes the family problem in the novels about rural reform. After that the article tries to illustrate the problem in three aspects. First, the family in the novels about rural cooperative reform is different from the traditional concept of family. In the traditional sense, family boycotts the rural cooperative reform and is a stumbling block of the reform. But the new family advocates freedom, democracy and characteristics. It encourages youth to come out from families to join in the society and participate various social activities. It is the support of rural cooperative reform. Secondly, novels tell a new concept of love. Marriage is the basic way of setting up a family, while love is precondition of family. The love in the novels about rural cooperative reform is the new love based on the communism morals, breaking the traditional marriage mode such as "perfect match" and "the brilliant scholar beauty". Thirdly, the female in the novels about rural cooperative reform get liberalization through work. They not only gain economic right and status, but also push female liberation unprecedentedly.All in all, the family problems in the novels about rural cooperative reform, reflect the close relation between the country and the family. The nation passes national will to families and individuals through family reforms and thus steps up the modernization of country, family and individuals.