Yu Dafu Creation Of Cultural Conflict And Choice

From the late 19th century to the early 20 century ,China has experienced the great changings in society and culture.To those who have been accustomed to a super- stable agricultural society,many phenomena and things are strange and unundersandable to them in this period.Yu Dafu who lives in such a period is destined to be involved in the innovation of the epoch.He has a sentimental mental world and is concious of the difference between the modern commercial society and the traditional society when he is faced with the alternation of the intellectual' role.In this modern society,individual well-being exceeds all other values;Money determines all directly,Apart from the freedom that they never gain,people acquire the mediocre and tiny.After losing the opportunity of being an official, Yu Dafu can only rely on writing to make a living.So he acquires an opportunity to convey his pains and confusion.In his early novels,he convey the despair that the intellectual who is affluenced by the traditional culture doesn' t know what to do in the modern society by writing about the youth without love the worthless existance and the death like grass.But Yu Dafu doesn' t want to sink because of this,he starts his journey for seeking the meaning of the life with the doubt about the modern society .During his life,he has created many figure of death to uncover the meaning of living.From the changing of the figure,we can discover the change from paying attention to self to more peopie.The cultural spirits included in the novels transform from individualism in modern society to responsibility and mission.The eros emphasizes on mental love from exhibiting the suffer of division between the figure andmindYu Dafu admit neither tradition nor modem.New things and old ones are mixed in his world The aim of writing the paper is to clarify this fact that as a intellectual in the period that theculture is experiending transformation from tradition to modem ,Yu Dafu have to think about how to copy with the historic problem about selection of culture ,and at last he can find the pattern to deal with it whic is significant to him and which belong to him.