Imagination And Reconstruction Of The History

Revolutionary historic fiction (here after referred as RHF) and New-historic fiction (hereafter referred as NHF) are two models of literature works that are predominant in the literature trend in two different times. The revolutionary historic fiction came into being between 1950's and 60's when people were engaging in the hard undertakings for the found of the new country. Dandelion, Safe guard Yan An, immense forest and snowfield, rudimentary writing for an unstable situation,cruel fighting in the ancient city are among the typical literature works representing the "Red Classical Fiction". New-historical fiction came into being between 1980's and 1990's when the country was undergoing tremendous social and economic development after the reform and opening-up. Full Breast and Fat Buttock, Bai Lu highland, The yellow flowers in hometown, Living, are the typical literature works representative of this time. Although both RHF and NHF touched upon the revolutionary struggles and lives after the founding of the Communist Party of China, however, due to time differences, different authors depicts the same history stories differently and hence form their own distinctive judgments of history.The birth of revolutionary historic fiction meets the needs of the time. As asocial entity, the author cannot go against the tendency of the times. During hat time individuality is at the sacrifice of masses, the authors regard the "The Talks on Literature and Arts in Yan an" as their leading principle, and take their own life experiences as the background of the story. Based on that they try to meet the society's need for literature by portraying a perfect,righteous,and lofty figure. From today's perspective, such writing exposes a dilemma, while it reasonably follows the trend of the times on the one hand, it deviates the description of the human nature on the other. Such works cannot reflect the real desire of human beings for the life. Comparatively speaking, new-historic fiction fully describes the human nature, which provides the reader with new historical perspective, and new art representing styles. Such works undermines the dualist controversy,and regards accidentalism,non cause-and-effect, and non logic and non political as its core elements. The ethics and politics are fading out, and the theme of the literature works becomes more hidden comparing with the revolution historic works.