To Create The Perfect Human Nature

Sun Li has always been pursuing the "beauty" and "kindness" of humanity in his lifelong literary creation. Though his description of humanity presents different characteristics and his viewpoint of humanity changes several times in different historical periods, it is his life pursuit and ideal to refuse the ugly and "to forge perfect humanity".In the forties, the article entitled Zai Yanan Wenyi Zuotanhui Shang De Jianghua by Mao Ze-deng was published in the liberation area. It became the guiding document in the literary construction at that time with the most important characteristic of the extreme focus on class nature. Therefore, during this period, the embryo and the development of his viewpoint of humanity was confined within "class nature". As a revolutionary writer in the liberation area, Sun Li's reaction to the speech was quite active, which was showed by his understanding and his behavior concerning "the proletariat humanity" put forward by Mao Ze-deng. In fact, in the wartime of the forties, Sun Li explained the concept of proletariat humanity mainly on the basis of the national traditional virtue. He tried to integrate the national virtue and class virtue to a certain point satisfactorily. The "beauty" and "kindness" of "the proletariat humanity" praised by Sun Li mainly included diligence, courage and devotion, which made his viewpoint of humanity have a strong color of morality. Of course, we should note that if humanity is guided and defined by class nature and if we only pursue and praise the sole "beautiful and kindhumanity", we can't have a comprehensive understanding of humanity.In the peacetime of the fifties and sixties, Sun Li began to rethink about his viewpoint of humanity formed in the forties. He found out that people's relationship in peacetime was less harmonious than in wartime. In his Fengyun Chuji and Tie Mu Qianzhuan, Sun Li began to rethink about humanity with his partly acceptance and description of "desire". In his observation of the two factors-barbarity and rational sense consisting of humanity, Sun Li adjusted his viewpoint of humanity once again: he confirmed human's social nature, and in the meantime he began to emphasize on human's natural characteristics and his value of existence.During the "Cultural Revolution", Sun Li had seen the overflow of the evil humanity, and experienced varieties of tragedies resulted from the replacement of humanity by class nature. Therefore, his viewpoint of humanity in the new period is to forge the perfect humanity after he has gone beyond the "accepting the theory that people are born evil" and "stepping out the restrains of the theory on class". The perfect humanity he forged is the expectance of both responsibility and freedom. That is, while it restrains people with moral ethics, it also offers them with appropriate living space.Sun Li has been devoting all his life to forging the perfect humanity. Though he has encountered much hardship, he never gives up. He is a real indomitable humanist and a forever singer for perfect humanity.