On The Appearance Of Modern Chinese Local Novels

Location is the common theme of Chinese traditional literature; sheoriginated from the deep affection for the nation founded on agriculture,and has formed fixed literature connotation and aesthetic tendency. In the20th century, location writing has got into a brand-new world due to theappearance of modern local novels.The appearance of modem local novels cannot be simply classifiedas the problem of style alteration, but essentially the new creation of aliterature theme. There are both subjective and objective reasons for thecreation of a new theme. In conclusion, modem writers inherited theaffection for local consciousness as a racial memory and the clinging to aspiritual garden on one hand, and felt the conservation of the countrysidecompelled by modern civilization on the other hand, so they take theresponsibility for the rational survey, criticism and reconstruction of thecountryside. Therefore, modern writers faced the double mental summonsof the local land, among which the former led the writers to imagine andrebuild a beautiful homeland, and the latter called for them to analyze anddeconstruct the traditional regional land and the culture it stands for.LuXun is the first person who responded to the summons of the localland and made a brilliant choice. He had deep affection for the regionalland, but motivated by the intellectual's high social responsibility, hefirmly deconstructed the local traditiona with the tool of modernrationality. In the sight of another person with double identities, LuXunmade a static countryside world as a symbol for the decadent culture onone hand; and looked closely at the intellectuals who tried to preserve thecountryside, found a theme about the relationship between theintellectuals and the countryside, and composed the cultural criticism with highest configuration in the history of modem local novel. Hisnovels set an example for the successors, and caused the appearance anddevelopment of the critical local novel.Through the conflict of reason and emotion, FeiMing gave upmodem rationality last and returned to the construction of traditionallocal consciousness of poetry. Led by his own interest in literature andbased on the childhood experience, he adopted Zhuang's and Buddhist'sthought and Taoqian's tranquil mood to construct a beautifulcountryside world aiming at leading people to achieve an awakeningcondition with an optimistic attitude of tuming death to life. Although hewent into a pretty pass, his unhistorical views on the countrysideappreciation and his poetic and unrealistic expressi on enlightened somecountryside novelists directly. Eventually, with the promotion of ShenCongwen, it become a great lyric writer.It was LuXun's and FeiMing's creation-centre inclination that ledthe appearance and division of the two text forms of local novel.Therefore, a luxuriant and splendid artistic world has been created inthe local novel creation.