The Northwest Culture And Zhang Xianliang's Novels

Zhang Xianliang is a famous writer in Chinese contemporary literary world. Most of his novels have realistic character and radiate full-bodied local colour. So it's a real-life topic to study Zhang Xianliang's novels from the angle of regional culture. Further more, people chronically pay no attention to this flank, so carrying through the research of this aspect has important meaning and value.The stories in Zhang Xianliang's novels mostly happened in Ningxia flat area from 1950's to1980's. Most of the characters in the novels were the northwest people living in this ground in this period. Zhang Xianliang's novels described the people and affairs happened in the northwest plateau at one time, and necessarily expressed the cognition and understanding of the northwest culture at the same time.Zhang Xianliang's novels exhibit special scene of the northwest plateau, and accordingly make the works get unique aesthetic value. The northwest environment is a important aspect of the northwest culture which Zhang Xianliang's novels show.Zhang Xianliang's novels reveal the rich physical production and material life folk-customs of the northwest people, and accordingly make the works get the massive folklore value.Zhang Xianliang's novels figure many character images of the northwest style, and exhibit the northwest people's typical cultural personalities. Zhang Xianliang's novels also make great important contributions to the gallery of Chinese literary characters.Zhang Xianliang's novels show affluent northwest folk arts, and accordingly bring some unique lingering charm to the works.Zhang Xianliang consciously uses the northwest dialect in his texts, which forms a plain and lively lingual feature in his novels.So, Zhang Xianliang's novels not only show something of substantial lay in the northwest culture, but also show some important immaterial connotation. The northwest cultural spirit concentrates on Zhang Xianliang's novels. It's a important source forming the meaning and artistic charm of Zhang Xianliang's novels.Through his novels, Zhang Xianliang makes the northwest people and culture go into the literature, move toward all over China, even move toward all over the world.