"Green" And The Philosophy Of Life Of Shen Congwen

Shen Congwen's prose take the green as the back scenery. In its writing, "the green" is not only one kind of objective color which exists in the nature, but also is his emotion reposing, and a kind of symbol of activeness upward vitality . The nature and the characters are the essential image which represents the green. The nature bring us the direct-viewing green in the vision. Its purity, peace and gentleness ,and balance also impliedly aim at a perfectly, ultramundane human-nature world. The characters bring us non- direct-viewing implied green. According to the classification of the "green" , the characters can be divided into "light green" and "deep green". Different levels of the green represente the different life shapes and ideals.The people of "light green" refer to the human nature people and perfect people. In other words, it refers to the state when people seek the clothing, food, housing, and transportation in their existences and lives, and the state when they satisfy materially and mentally. It contains two characters. They are vigorous lives and pure and good-hearted, brave, generous, the good righteousness. The people of "deep green" refer to those who surmounting common custom and those who have the divine nature. In other words, after being contented with the basic material needs, people have higher ideals. They have a full understanding and affirmation of their own life value. They try hard to show the world their own strength, ask for freely controlling their own destinies. They are thirsty for the truth, the goodwill and the beauty and pursue "tomorrow". This is the perfect humannature in a extreme condition.The good will of constructing the green life of Shen congwen has showed us his ideal of rebuilding the country and the society, and has formed his unique philosophy of life .Shen congwen's philosophy of life not only includes "living", but also contains "death". The consciousness of death face directly the matter of life and death.It is specially morphologized life consciousness.Therefore "death" should also be a part of the philosophy of life, and an important part. "Living" includes seven parts : they are inevitably and accidentally, the emotion and the rationality, the destiny and the will, the non- value and the value, beauty and love ,abstract and concrete, the glory and the dignity. "Death" contains two aspects. they are faces up to the death, although dies still lives,and surmounting death. From his philosophy of life of "living" and"death", we see his pursuance to "green" and imagination of the modality of green life , discover evidence of his constructing "the green" life, draw the conclusion that ShenCongwen's philosophy of life is "the green" .The philosophy of green life advocates life shape with perfect body and beautiful soul. This affect greatly on his esthetic style, which is pro-strength and pro-beauty.Pro-beauty lies in his praise of lives full of strength, his not-negtive attitude to "violence" and his positive attitude to the primitive sexual ability of Xiangxi people. Influenced much by his mother, Shen Congwen's temperament is graceful, implicit and exquisite. He likes elegancy more than magnificence. His pursuance to beauty comes from his obligation of beautifying the human nature and the society . He hopes to make everything " green", so that he can construct a pure and harmonious society of paradise.