About The Deity Thought Of Shen Congwen

Shen Congwen, a Young soldier of rank's family, came from the backwoods of west Hunan of China. He had not accepted orthodox education of the Confucianism, and had not experienced the baptism of the "May 4th" enlightenment of thought. His literary works, relying on the truly narrating of his distinctive experience and the poetic depicting of the strange custom of west Hunan, demonstrate the depth of Shen Congwen's discerns to society life and the tenaciousness of his pursuing the "deity" of life. Shen Congwen's cordial expressing of the "deity" of life the maximal realm of ideal life formed in his literary works, once had confronted criticism from many fields in the society in which the class struggle comes first. For this reason, he also became a writer facing quite a lot of reproach on Chinese literary circles in that time. In this article, several aspect are demonstrated including the origin of thought development course and their connotation expounding about the "Deity" thought shown in Shen Congwen's literary works.This article is divided into three parts: the introduction,the first chapter and the latter chapter. The introduction taking Shen Congwen's life experiences as basis, revealing the philosophy meaning of Shen Congwen's probing: from knowing oneself to probing the whole universe life and the human nature, Then concluded the intrinsic quality of "deity" in Shen Congwen's concept: The "deity". "loves" and " beauty " in life are Three-in-One , which are the human nature displayed differently in the different fields of human being's social life.The first chapter starting from the developing course of Shen Congwen's thought, revealing that the witch Chu culture, the Buddhism thought and the Christianity thought compose the source of Shen Congwen's "deity" thought. In the simple survival way gradually tainted with the Chu culture and stout life form being of people in west Hunan, Shen Congwen has discovered the "deity" factor of life which he is sticking to; The "introspection" mode of thinking and the ethics outlook of Buddhism have affected Shen Congwen's way of thinking and passive attitude towards the social life; The pious attitude of Christendom's trust of God has strengthened Shen Congwen's tenacious belief on running after the "deity" life.The latter chapter sets forth the connotation of Shen Congwen's "deity" thoughts From three aspects: the "instinct" of human being. "emotions" and "beauty" concretely. The reservation of Primitive life instinct endows human being with the vigor of stout life; The emotions of human being constructs harmony for its life and the ration of modern appreciation of the beauty promotes the nature of human being fundamentally. Only when the 3 parts are combined perfectly, can the mature state of ideal human nature be shown, or in other words, can the "deity" be reached.