Taking Root In The Earth Of The West Hunan Deducting National Course

Sun Jianzhong is a famous writer of Tujia nationality in modern China. He personally experienced the great changes of Tujia people's fate and life in west Hunan since China has been established. In his nearly fifty years' creation, he devoted himself to his literary dream and took the flourishing of national literature as his obligation, recording the history and reality of his nation. He continuously surpasses his creation practice and creation ideal, devoting himself to the expression of the theme—the social life and the national spirit and psychology of Tujia nationality.From the early revealing of Tujia's new life after liberation to the rethinking of Tujia's harm in new time, and the expression of Tujia's material and economical reformation and the national and psychological changes, and then to the literature construction of Tujia's history over thousands of years and the criticism and surpassing of the cultural limitations of his own nation after 1985, the theme of Tujia penetrates Sun's whole process of novel creation. The persistent seeking of Tujia theme is his lofty artistic pursuit, which presents Sun's strong senses of national responsibility and national obligation.As the time of the writer's creation passes, the theme of Tujia in Sun's novels has some new changes. Consequently, the national trait implied in the theme of Tujia has a rich structural layer. The content of national trait of Tujia theme in Sun's novels is composed of the presentation of Tujia's proto-ecological elements and the heritage of Tujia's folk literature and the sticking of Tujia's cultural consciousness. And the national traits are closely and intrinsically related.Taking root in his homeland—west Hunan, and deriving the source from the life of his own nation and the people, Sun makes a success in his novel creation. Both his individual effort and the need of the time make Sun the founder of Tujia novels.