Su Qing Creative People Complex

"Writing about the folks" is the foothold and starting point for Su Qing's literary creation activity, and it is also the standpoint of this thesis in its composition. Su Qing is a writer at the time of Japan's occupation of Shanghai who wrote about the ordinary people's life. Her unique experiences and social identity enabled her to alienate herself, intentionally or unintentionally, from the political background and the reality of war against the Japanese invasion at that time in her literary creation. Instead, she turned her eyes upon the everyday life of the ordinary people, focused her attention on the worldly experiences of common citizens, and then expressed these out in her peculiar feminine ways, thus adding an unparalleled scene to our nation's tradition of Folk Literature in the 20th century.In Su Qing's literary activity, "writing about the folks" is always kept as the basic tune. In her scarce works, her descriptions of the rich and unique folk customs of Shanghai and Ningbo is permeated with her philosophy of being, seemingly one of golden mean; In the mundane everyday life, Su was also making her own interpretations of the myth of love through her reflections upon the issues of family, marriage and love with a view that wavered between an intangible sense of belonging and the heavy feminine self-worth; Su Qing's Style is naive and simple. Her choice of material as well as her language style is truly individual and peculiar to herself, yet such unique way could express just fine the feelings and experiences of the ordinary people at that time, and grasped appropriately certain commonness in human life. Such literary creation of folk culture itself has taken on the sense of modernity that can not be neglected.Su Qing is a topic that's simple but everlasting. The complex about the common people is one of the important clues for us to re-discover Su Qing and the significance of her works. Her literary creation is indispensable for carrying on the tradition of folk culture in our nation; furthermore, it can also serve as a reference and source of inspiration for contemporary folk culture creation.