A Comparative Study Of Huoda 's "Muslim' S Funeral" And Ye Guangqin 's "Adopting Mulberry"

At the end of 1980s to the 1990s, minority writers were keen on seeking their national cultural roots, there are lots of influential works about this. On the basis of their own national history and culture, expressing national culture, discovering personality of their nation, describing national mental process, reflecting and criticizing on their national culture rationally. Muslim funeral which is written by Huo Da and Ye Guangqin’s Picking mulberries both are representative works.Muslim funeral is the first novel that completely show the hui people’s culture and life in minority literature world. The novel has unique perspectives, emotion sincere, rich content, through the story of a Muslim family for generations, reveals the hui people’s collision and fusion between traditional Confucian culture and Muslim culture. Picking mulberries is by nine of interconnected and independent medium-length piece composition, writing the manchu aristocrat Kim decline of family novel. Picking mulberries is Ye Guangqin’s most representative work.Hou Da and Ye Guangqin was born in China in the 1940s, grandparents generation living in Beijing, being very familiar with geographic and cultural life of Beijing. They have been through the founding of new China, the cultural revolution decade and the historical changes of China’s reform and opening up, deeply experience the time constant changes to people’s life and fate, bringing huge impact to people. Hou Da and Ye Guangqin began writing in the 20th century eighty generation, as a group of intellectuals, middle-aged have the experience of living abroad, and ethnic identity. Family life, personal experience,cultural customs and Beijing regional landscape naturally integrated into Hou Da and Ye Guangqin’s novel creation. Hou Da and Ye Guangqin’s growing experience and writing roads have a lot in common, so Muslim funeral and Picking mulberries also have a lot in common. Muslim funeral and Picking mulberries both write Beijing minority family life, concentrated a large number of pen and ink to the Beijing regional culture style. Time span of the two novels is roughly same, since the period of the republic of China, all the way to the reform and opening up today, consists of three generations of the family because of the time change, formed the different life and destiny tragedy ending. Muslim funeral and Picking mulberries with two hui and manchu ethnic family as its subject, concentrated shows the national history and culture. Hou Da and Ye Guangqin as minorities in han culture circle, accept the han culture education. Other provincial life and foreign experiences, make them away from the motherland, away from the family, both have the return to ethnic and cultural traditions of the sense of responsibility and modern mainstream culture background, with short of the hui and manchu ethnic culture to carry on the rational thinking.Hou Da and Ye Guangqin’s different national identity, national historical and cultural background and family background, makes the Muslim funeral and Picking mulberries have many different place. On the writing of national history and culture, Muslim funeral show the psychological characteristics under the influence of the Muslim religion, The characteristics of the hui nationality customs and unique characters. Picking mulberries is show the manchu ethnic mentality, national customs and elegant philosophical character under the influence of the manchu culture. Hou Da is as an outsider to talk about the history of the hui family, Ye Guangqin is the identity of the participants and witnesses of his family, writting a family of autobiographical novel. Muslim funeral critique the rule in Muslim culture, shaping the modern intellectuals, from behind the conservative culture of hui nationality. Picking mulberries examine the manchu nobility of rusty culture, at the same time, show the dying of the light of the manchu culture and attachment to family members.In this thesis, we treat the two novels as the research object and compare them from the four aspects of the writer’s experience of creation and the content of the novel, national psychology, national culture and artistic characteristics using the methods of parallel research and text analysis, The main purpose of the research is to analyze the similarities and differences of the two novels deeply and try to describe the value orientation and aesthetic appeal of the minority writers on the road of cultural roots.