Ecocriticism's Vision Of Chi Zijian

Chi Zijian,a female writer who was born in the northeast of china, is known as "a literary fairy gestated by nature," the northeast border of the unspoiled nature has given her aesthetic sense of spirituality and ways of thinking,the culture of Shamanism Erran has made her "animism" convinced . Unique "childhood habitat" has had a far-reaching influence on Chi Zijian's life and literary creation,nature worship makes her keeping far away from the fashion of modern city and alien to morden civilization.Deviated from her homeland,Chi Zijian has kept living in the city since she has become an adult,but she looks like " a stranger in the city" for ever.She frequently dreams of her homeland, natural and hometown become the fulcrum and focus of her literary creation.The research on Chi Zijian's novels for nearly 20 years has concentrated in the regional culture, civil position, childhood perspective, "warmth" and "sentimentalism",poetic prose style features, and so on. From the existing research results, the researchers have made multi-dimensional and building elaborate on the ideological content and aesthetic characteristics of Chi Zijian's novels, but the "ecological factor" which implies in Chi Zijian's novels has rarely been involved and discussed.In fact, Chi Zijian's ecological sentiments is very wild, many of her proses contain the deep ecological anxiety, her novels are also full of ecological meaning. From the overall perspective, Chi Zijian's novels is permeated with a "green emotional link", that is: reverence for nature,solicitude for living things, praise human nature, anxiety about the plight of ecology that human hasto face ,concerns of the ecological balance of the universe, order harmonious hope. This paper criticized Chi Zijian's novels in the ecocriticism vision , trying to make a systematic collation about the ecological implication of Chi Zijian's novels.First of all,the paper dissertated the independent subjective status of the "nature" in Chi Zijian's nonels,and dealt with the spiritual nature images in a detailed interpretation. Rooted in nature as a writer, Chi Zijian eagers for the harmony between human and nature, she fears human's alienation from nature and rejects to make nature "background "and" inanimate patterns".Her novels restore the spiritual dominant position of the " nature" by making" a speech platform " that everything in the nature can be listened to . In Chi Zijian's novels, all the things in the nature are spiritual, with the dignity of life, they are even more wonderful than the characters,they do illuminate Chi Zijian's art world. In the current era, rationalism has been increasingly enhanced, the spiritual natural world reflected by Chi Zijian's novels can digest rationalism to constraint on the emotional life, breaking the artificial boundaries between human and nature that made by "natural disenchantment".Its unique cultural significance is conspicuous.For Chi Zijian, "home" is the poetic dwelling and the Garden of Eden for the soul, where modern civilization has not been disseminated.It is an "original landscape" overshadowed by the glorious divinity. In the ever-increasing urbanization process, Chi Zijian, with unlimited love of "original landscape ", has constructed a warm and harmonious local home in the "spirit of homecoming", The "original landscape" described by Chi Zijian is an ideal ecological picture in which human and nature , human and others, human and ego is a harmonious unity.What repeatedly praised by Chi Zijian in the "original landscape " was in fact an ideal aesthetic survival, it filter out the ugly and shallow, selfish and narrow, hatred and hostility, a dream-like simplicity and noble, clean and beautiful. It is a realm of poetry. If it is said that the ultimate goal of modernization is the total liberation and freedom for human, then phase in the cultural collision of human suffering and loss of alienation, the harmony poetic aesthetic survival for which Chi Zijian yearns is undoubtedly instructive, it contains a wealth of ecological wisdom, embodied Chi Zijian's ultimate concern for nature and human survival.Reflection and criticism about modern civilization is one of the important contents of Chi Zijian's novels. Encircled by modern civilization ,Chi Zijian questioned the bias of modern civilization with her "profound human instinct". She is keenly aware that the civilized humanity always dominates nature ruthlessly , she also bewails the shrunken spirit of morden human and alienation of human nature.She tries to put forward "return to nature" as the "prescription" for the ecological crisis.The "sorrow rather than despair" narrative signs the author's intensely ecological consciousness and generous human sentiments. Chi Zijian's novels contain the author's deep concern and rational thinking about natural ecology and spiritual ecology. It edifies us to reflect on the cultural roots of the various ecological imbalance in the process of modernization.It also enlightens us that if we wish to realize the sustainable development of human and nature we should try our best to search for the "green channel" which is more compatible with ecological rules.