Exploring The Eternal Road Of The "Meaning Of Existence"

Shi Tiesheng, the writer in wheelchair is famous for thought in contemporary Chinese literary world. Many of Shi Tiesheng's works are full of thinking of life during his almost 30-yesr's career of writing.In Shi Tiesheng's works, he often wonders such difficult questions: why are mankind in such a difficult position? What is the driving force for people to take action avoid of committing suicide when facing suffering and despair? What is the meaning of human's existence? These issues are the main melody in his works. We see Shi Tiesheng always on the road, he continues to keep taking steps with confused, to express his exploring for the"meaning of existence"with his works.Shi Tiesheng limits to"disability"with the new definition, his view from the broad perspective,"disability"refers not only to physical illness, but also refers to the congenital limit of human.It is the incompleteness that can never be perfect,it's the fundamental dilemma that everyone has to face. Plight is always given by fate that people try to pass. Compared with other contemporary writers, Shi tiesheng is in the first set to propose the cultural value on the plight of human's existence. He believes that there are three difficulties: the lonely plight, the plight of desire and the dead predicament. It has made him creative and close to people's lives.Lonely predicament : Shi Tiesheng thinks that everyone is not only thrown to the world, but also is dumped separately. Loneliness is the fundamental situation.Desire dilemma : the gap between the limited capacity and unlimited desires. So people were suffering because of the limited capacity and desire for limitless. "Disabled" or limitations means the distance between the desire and the ability that people can achieve. This distance belongs to all of us.Dead predicament: everyone has to face death ,it means all sense of life digestion. In the life of everyone has been accompanied by death, it is time to wait in front of each person's life. No one exception, the death will remove any purpose, it is called"death predicament"by Shi Tiesheng.Shi Tiesheng considers that love plays an important and indispensable role for mankind to overcome suffering and access to the value and meaning of existence. In Shi Tiesheng's works, love and disability is the important part in people's lives. It is also an important theme of his creativity. In the writer's opinion, the meaning of love is quite broad. It includes the selfless maternal love, the pitying love from each other and the passionate love(between man and woman ). In Shi Tiesheng's works maternal love is in a permanent location, and his memory is forever deeply grateful, trying to melt into a spiritual force and to support"my"writing and life. Maternal love is the love of source, in Shi Tiesheng's point of view, maternal love is the opportunity for the writer to think about love .It makes him not only immersed in his own joys and sorrows, but also gave him a heart to understand and love others. In addition to the selfless maternal love, the pitying love from the people around him also gave him the great spiritual strength that made him get out of the disability plight. The writer believes that the pitying love is the starting point to universal love.In Shi Tiesheng's works, passionate love is permeated with the question on the meaning of life and the exploration for infinite life. Love between man and women is important because of the limitations of humanity, because of human's lack of mutual understanding. In order to get rid of loneliness, calls, exchanges and understanding are needed. People move towards love, because all of us are suffering from loneliness.On one hand, Shi Tiesheng has recognized the plight of the human's existence, on the other hand ,he believes that people can break the abstruseness of fate from spirit with wisdom. Shi Tiesheng said :"The misery lead you toward the meaning of existence."His temperament of philosopher that is given by suffering makes him can understand the"existentialism"deeply. Many readers even view Shi Tiesheng's works as a popular version of"existentialism"in China. The discussion about despair and rescue of "existentialism"caters to Shi Tiesheng's spirit. Aware of the difficulties of life and incompleteness then view them as the issues to get the significance and joy of life. The meaning of life is not only in love and hope, no matter how bitter the situation, life has its own significance. For the meaning of life instead of being given, it was proposed. In Shi Tiesheng's point of view, that the meaning of life is that you can create a beautiful and wonderful procession. The value of life lies in the excellent and stirring procession that you can enjoy it excitedly.Shi Tiesheng has been called the most religious spiritual sage, though he is not a true sense of the believers in contemporary Chinese literary world. The spirit of religion does not belong to a certain social class or a certain social stratum, it does not belong to any political faction, and it belongs to the whole of mankind. Shi Tiesheng put aside secular and utilitarian purpose, based on the human soul's salvation. In view of his own plight of the disabled, Shi Tiesheng found the incompleteness existed in all of people, he considered the existence of mankind, held God in high esteem, then rose to the ultimate concern to the whole of mankind.Writing is the starting point for Shi Tiesheng's life, which he called"the fate of writing". The physical disabled to enable him to do an extension of life with a pen. Disability has ever made Shi Tiesheng can not sustain the light of life. To be alive because he found a compelling reason to be here as a spirit of self-rescue. Writing was thought as the opportunity that he had discovered the situation and the fundamental value of life.Shi Tiesheng went into the literary world since the late 1970s, his works will be on the existence of deep thinking. They are full of the ultimate concern for mankind's difficult position that made him outstanding. There is a profound experience of difficulties, painful thought with heart and soul, Shi Tiesheng's works are on the ideological background at the same time it also has the stirring strength that can penetrate the background of paper.