The Metaphor Of Disease In Modern Novel Of China

As one physiological phenomenon, disease is a natural process, but the diagnosis and explanation to it is a social culture process. The disease's descriptions in literature contain the culture of the nation. The understandings about disease refract the path for the Civilization and progress of the humanity. How deep the humanity know about the disease, how deep the humanity know about themselves, the way how to explain the disease is the way how to think for the nation. The traditional medicine of China is not about technology, but also Philosophy. The Medical Classic of the Emperor is not about a medicine classic, but also a culture and philosophy classic. The ideas about masculine, feminine and five elements penetrated to Chinese's ideological mode. In traditional literature, disease has been colored with intense moral, it has been one method for the author to indicate the value judgment of themselves; disease has also been colored with romantic, it was a method for the heaven to condemnation the talented person, it contains the value of fair. For more and more national crisis after the modern times, it has been extended by the individual to the nation-state, the metaphor way about "medical country" and "medical person" has produced gradually, "the Travels of Laochan" is a model. With the literature modernized, the explanation of disease also experienced a modernized process. Because the disease happened to the modern writer frequently, profound experience in the human body and thorough in spiritual thinking, disease not about becomes frequent image, but also the Most excels subject which displays. Disease was up to a literary style of one Time, it was a female topic of one Time.