Happy Land Happy Land It Is My Homeland

Wang Anyi, a productive contemporary notable writer, has published master pieces of over 5 million words including both the field practices of literature creation and studies of literature theories. Her tributes are rarely comparable with the large number of works, wide-range of types, and enrichment of themes. It' s commendable that she has personal long-last creativity. In every new trend of thought movement, she always brings her vigor to the contemporary literature world. And, critics are always keeping an eye on her, for she is such a keynote writer. She have become one of the main focus of literature study for a longtime though, studies on her urban novels ranked the first position, and her rural narrative series were neglected. Wang Anyi has two main stages of creating rural narrative series, one is when she started her literature career, and the other is during the later part of 1990s. Why did Wang Anyi favor rural narrative? She unexpectedly restarted her rural narrative creation after having achieved great fame with her urban novels. What were the relationship of between her creation of rural literature and urban literature? What was the real motive of her shuttling between urban and rural? All these questions remain unanswered. The paper with culturology methods, taking the viewpoint of Wang Anyi' s local narrative rheology, discusses the three parts of escaping from the countryside, perplexity in the city, and paean of the countryside. The real motive of Wang Anyi' s shuttling between rural and urban is posted as anxiety and reflection of modern civilization, as pursuance for spiritual homeland and poetic happy-lands. Urban narrations are intermediate pauses of her searching for "happy-land" , are the courses of the road on her way. "Happy-land" is superorganic, embodied more in the spiritual value. Suffered the anxiety and reflection of modern civilization, Wang Anyi found her narrative carrier and spiritual homeland over again from the traditional culture, namely rural world, a healthy, natural and honest lifestyle, and a poetic homeland with harmonies between man and man, between man and the society, and between man and the nature.