Laoshe's Native Consciousness And Its Impact On The Fictions Creation

As a dynamic cultural concept constantly under construction, native consciousness is formed of uniqueness and otherness of national living region. It demonstrates the powerful offspring system of the nation, and also withstands all kinds of impacts from other cultures and maintains the purity of the traditional culture, it is a measure of a country's literature and the cultural phenomenon of the important signs, in The Native Consciousness of Gary Snyder, Ou Hong wrote that, " The core of native consciousness is the national culture consciousness, which in specific times and specific individuals reflect the era and individual consciousness, including the individual consciousness of class consciousness. "Almost every one of the great writers bear the influence of both traditional cultureand foreign culture, Lao She was no exception. However, his native consciousness has a strong sense of "this one" characteristic.This paper starts with the Laoshe's native consciousness of the basic characteristic, probes into its cultural causes, with an aim to grasp its influence on his fictions creation. The paper consists of introduction, the main body of the three chapters and conclusion.The first chapter discusses the connotation of Laoshe's native consciousness. Laoshe's native consciousness' core was the consciousness of national culture. The era and geographical awareness are its two axises. As a decendent of the declining Manchu people, he didn't limit himself to the crisis of his own nationality, but was broad-minded enough to concern himself with the survival of the entire Chinese nation. He constantly updated and remolded his cultural psychology with the development and changes.The second chapter will focus on cultural reasons of Laoshe's native consciousness. Laoshe is a writer of common people. His life experiences and his acception and adaptation of exotic cultures lay the groundwork of his national consciousness. Traditional culture is not the sole one in his thoughts. Laoshe who had access to western culture, quickly absorbed nutrition from western culture and localized it.The third chapter illustrates how Laoshe's native consciousness had a bearing on his fictional creation. Though immeasurably attached to traditional Chinese culture, Lsoshe bitterly criticized the feudal dross that hindered China's modernization. Imported western modern civilization was susceptible to changes on Chinese soil. As a Chinese intellectual yeanling for national rejuvenation, Laoshe exerted discreet choices when faced with western civilization. Between the two civilizations, he never stopped filtering and choosing. The limitation of the times sometimes inevitably set him in the spiritual dilemma of civilization and morality.The conclusion concludes the influence of Laoshe's native consciousness on his fictions, also points out that he was not only deeply noted in traditional Chinese culture, but also was more or less affected by exotic cultures. However, these influenced from foreign cultures did not make him an Europeanized writer, on the country, they promoted the native and openness of his national consciousness.