Soil Gentleman "modern Imagination

Based on the analysis of traditional cultural roots, modern life consciousness, and as an independent individual self-selection and imagination of Shen Congwen's works, Shen Congwen's pursuit modern aesthetic characteristics were grasped. The characters are:rooting in the Chu and Xiang Culture, blending their own unique life experience and life experience. Antinomy phenomenon of people's humanity and modern civilization was revealed starting from human nature, and binary tension relationship in the "City" and "rural" and "time" and "go time". By constructing the Western Ideal of homes, it encourages people to seek poetic life habitat.The first chapter, Chu and Wu culture, as Shen Congwen's literary heritage and the foundation of the existence of traditional culture, has been a manifestation of modernity in Shen Congwen's pen. Consciousness of culture identification of Chu and Wu culture is a conscious choice attitude of traditional Chinese culture from Shen Congwen, which shows the great influence on modern literature as the cultural background existed from the traditional cultural resources.In the second chapter, Shen's modern views of life are developed from the following three respects:1. Formation of Modern life concept; the decline of rural life's absurdity and urban vitality prompted Shen's re-creation of a national life, from which its own view of modern life was formed on this basis gradually.2. The basic connotation of the modern view of life; the essence of life is unity of magic and divine. The interaction between different levels of life forms and life-level, lead to different life forms, different life forms take on different meaning of life. Shen's pursuit for "life" is a state of reflection in a "life". He hopes the modernization of national spirit from a cultural perspective.3. A portrait of the modern concept of life; the paper analyzed animal life forms, the divine life forms and neutral forms of life meaning of life with the combination of text.The third chapter is a discussion of Shen's independent construction of modernity which is started from three aspects: 1. Space options:Country is a residence for human nature and non-residence of modern civilization; city is the availability of modern civilization residence and non-residence for human nature; relationship between urban and rural areas constitutes a binary tension.2. Time choice:normal of rural human is collapsed at the time of the linear flow, but preserved in the "go time"; urban civilization developed in the "time value" and been meaningless in the "go time". It is a binary relationship of time and "go time".3. Modern Reflections:The binary tension relationship between the two groups reveals antinomy phenomenon of the humanity and modern civilization. It encourages people to seek poetic life habitat through the construction of Western ideal home.