Zhou Zuoren, Folk Literature And Its Literary Thinking

Zhou-zuoren is the avant-courier of modern folklore, and also a valiant general of"5.4"literature revolution. He made great achievements in His beautiful colloquia- lism articles and literary theory construction. This paper tells us the influence be- tween his researches of folklore and his literature theories. His theories such as"Hominine Literature","The Common People's Literature","Personality of Literature","The Consciousness Of Life","Focus On Human emotion and Common Sense"are benefit from his folklore research."The revolution of thought"was the main contribution Zhou-zuoren made to"5.4"literature. He also enriched Hushi's theory of writings in the vernacular. We can see the folk-customs in his beautiful essays everywhere.We can see the folklore influence upon him whether in his construction of literary theory or his practice of beautiful essays. But he didn't only agree with the theory of folklore, didn't think all the common people's literature is good like Hushi and Chen duxiu. He proposed"aristocratic of common people". Because he placed folklore, classic literature and western literature together to the theory construction and practice of new literature, the thought and artic value of folklore had been found, refined and obtained new value of literature. Folklore was then exhibited with elite literature in literary palace hall.This article will describe the relationship between his folklore research and literature theory in his integrated thinking system. Open out the relationship of folklore, classical literature and western literature during his thinking system form. He left precious theory and practical fruits for newly literature after his attempered folklore, classical literature and western literature.The paper writes in the view to the folklore which people always ignored. It has the use for reference in the research of modern and contemporary countryside literature, The Beijing genre novel, folk-custom culture novel and seek-root novel.