Liu Zhenyun's Journey To Seek The Root

Liu Zhenyun, is a famous author of present age in china. His writes novels with various styles and always brings readers air of freshness and innovation. He keeps a distinct personality, ponders over all along the reality, history and human, and develops a route of his own, called"seeking the root"in writing. This thesis investigates this thoughts of"seeking the root"from four aspects.The first is the restoration to the reality of life. Liu Zhenyun portrays characters of ordinary persons including peasants struggling in reality, ordinary intellectuals, and townsmen, etc. Through the narration of their trifles, restoring life to indigenous state, represents the real and unnoticed corner in life, and demonstrate the irresistability and unimaginable crudeness of real life under the oppression of strong power and material life.The second is the revealing of historical actuality. Liu Zhenyun injects modern thoughts into the head of historical figures, restores big shots and heroes in history to modern people, restores historical life to real life, and demonstrates dirtiness and dullness under the radiance of major events and heroes in history, making shown that in historical process, ignorant grass-root units have been worshiping the so-called big shots, and they live centering on power and interest and push forward the development of history passively. Though this, Liu Zhenyun elaborate the transmigration and unchanging of history.The third is the seeking of national character. Liu Zhenyun describes the one side of stability, tenacity and industriousness of national character, and mainly display the national weakness of cowardliness, vanity, and unfeeling. He points out that due to the impact of power and material life, national character presents the duality of being like"sheep"and"wolves". Being like"sheep"is the side of meekness and feebleness of national character, and being like"wolves"is the side of ignorance and crudeness. These two alter toward each other with social situation changed.The fourth is the thinking about the root of spirit. Liu Zhenyun attaches concerns greatly about the unique power of imagining in national culture, spares no efforts to explore national language, adhere to his ideal and in criticizing, and searches the home of spirit.