On Death Writing Of FeiMing's Novels

Death is an unavoidable literal topic,so either philosophers or writers did profound research& thinking over it. Lu Xun said:"Death is the world's most outstanding boxer and the most touching tragedy of modern society." The writers'spirit and content could be seen through researching on their death writing.Fei Ming, being a unique writer in modern literary history, through the mouth of his characters, said "death is the best decoration of life", a large number of his novels also have narration of deaths, and he wrote a special prose entitled "Death of beauty " to articulate its concerns and understanding of death. Fei Ming's death writing has a sense of spiritual transcendence, showing distinctive features. This paper aims at analyzing Feiming's death writing from the following aspects:1, Calm and natural death writing style. Feiming wrote a large number of novels related with lost lives and the impermanence of life. Comparing with the other 54 local writers, as well as with Shen Congwen's death writing, Feiming's death writing was shown in a plain and natural way instead of in an intense and terrifying form, it has a relation with his unique aesthetic pursuit; In Feiming's novel, there is a large number of death images without terrifying effect, such as "grave" "Tablet" and other images, these images showed the beautiful and natural death; In addition, description of the folk-custom were mixed with lots of descriptions on death, such as the Tomb Sweeping in Ching Ming Festival, The worship of ancestors in Ghost Festival, sending torch for the ones who has just passed away... The description of these combined with the description of death, showed a strong local characteristic and flavor, as well as the traditional nostalgia.2, Fei Ming's implication on death written. Fei Ming did not describe the enormous pain caused by death, but focus on the feelings of the lives, under the shadow of the loss of their loved ones, human tenacity and perseverance were shown as " it doesn't matter " with endless sorrow; death left endless loneliness, then death is regarded as relief from human suffering which were especially presented in its description of human loneliness; In Feiming's view, death is beautiful in aesthetic vision; sense of transcendent death in Feiming's novel think death is the continuation of life in another way, a new starting point, which has a strong Buddhism mean. Comparing with the other 54 local writers, as well as with Shen Congwen's death writing, Feiming's description on death was presented in a unique way.3, The origin of Fei Ming's death writing. Traditional death theme of Chinese literature, painful childhood life, the experience of losing loved ones and "the mind is the Buddha" from traditional Buddhism culture, "to be with Taoism without knowing death&living" demonstrated by Zhuangzi all have an impact on Fei Ming's death writing, in particular, sense of transcendent death have a further-reaching impact.