From Examining City To Look Back To Western Hunan

The thesis discusses the relations between the modern culture (City Civilization) and the traditional culture (Xiangchu Culture), then analysises his position of culture and cultural psychology choice, through Shen Congwen's Urban novels and his Xiangxi novels.Shen Congwen's urban novels created a mirror for "the higher person", which reflected the moral decline of city people, the degradation of vitaliy and the desire of their materialization. Disappionted in the city civilization, Shen Congwen tried his best to find his spiritual home towards Xiangxi world. In his Xiangxi novels, on the one hand, he praised the unity of human and nature, the perfect love between people, and the dynamic lives; On the other hand, he found "the Native Paradise" had been vanishing and also existed the human cultural ills crippling people in Xiangxi.The sense of superiority, which made from Xiangchu Culture, made Shen Congwen demonstrate his own inherent "the Border Town Complex". On the one hand, when the reality of Xiangxi can't carring his dream, he still created romantic novels; On the other hand, he made some modern female figues with the ethos as people in the world of Xiangxi, emboding his try of expanding the kind of fresh vitality from Xiangxi to the city.Between the examining from the city to Xiangxi, in the course of culture choices, Shen Congwen tried to choose positve traditional culture (mainly Xianchu Culture), as a frame of reference, to make up for correction of modern civilization and the drawbacks. Meanwhile, he also tried to find better lives for the people in Xiangxi, hoped that they used modern urban culture to arm their minds and change their own lives. Shen Congwen, took the past Xiangxi world as the foot spot, from the city's future development perspective, analysised merits between the traditional cuture and the modern culture, who attempted to make an achieve. However, left from the era of China's environment, Shen congwen's dream can't be realized. Overll, Shen Congwen's cuturalpsychology choice also demonstates the trend of Cutural Conservatism.