Bandit Culture In Xiaojun's Works

Xiaojun is one of the modern distinguished writers, the Northern writers group, with their unique styles and personalities as well as notable achievements who emerged in the period of 1930s and 1940s. His works can be described as the platform reflecting the social life of Bandit culture in the north-eastern part of China, also presenting complexity and diversity of the bandit culture from many aspects. It is of great importance to explore his unique experience of the bandit culture, to discuss the specific characteristics in his works.The bandit culture has its own original, developmental, historical, social and profound background. The factors that contribute to the bandit culture are that the specific natural characteristics: few inhabitants on the sparse land, soaring mountains and rushing rivers, frigid climate with the long period time of winter, which are more likely to foster the survival of the bandits in these areas. As for the social environment formation, one is the fact that most of the inbabitants are immigants from the inside Shanhaiguan Pass, they own the adventurous and ardurious life experience, the sencond is that the northern part is far from the Central Plains, the feudal central government control is beyond reach. As for the historical reasons, one is the fact that each dynasty there are some people who were exiled to the northeast, the second reason is that the cruel persecution of the government, the third is the foreign invasion. There are some developmental stages of the bandit: Ming Dynasty, transitional period between Ming and Qing Dynasty, the late Qing Dynasty, the Anti-Janpanese period and the liberation war period, With the liberation of the northeast three provinces, bandits in these areas came to their vanished in the history stage.There are several characteristics of the bandit culture: the first is the uphold justice the spirit born to take adventure of the northeastern people, the second is the bandit culture has its own dual character, both positive and negative, we can neither entirely confirm it nor deny it, the third is the bandit culture is of great hisrorical significance due to it is the product of hisrory. The bandit culture is predominant in the northeastern cultural areas for the following reasons, and this impact is reflected on two aspects, the impact on the northeastern social life as well as the northeastern literature and art. The essence of the bandit culture is the affirmation of the individuals and northeastern vitality consisting of individuals in a twisting form. The bandit culture is so significant that it plays a vital role in the social structure,the life structure in this area, besides, it also creates some profound influences on the folk literature and folk art, thus providing vivid performation object and abundant material foundataion for literacy description.The bandit culture is well refleced in Xiao Jun's works, this has a lot to do with his own life experiences. Xiao Jun was born in a deserted mountian valley in the easten part of Liaoning province, isolated, poor,deserted, lagged behind. It is lfe that makes him familiar with the bandit, with the northeastern bandit culture. In his works, he moulds distinctive, vivid images of the bandits, and all these reflect a spirit of bandit. In the countryside of August, Xiao moulded the heroic image of the bandit captain, he used the contrsat devises, depicted the transformation of Tie Ying from a bandit into a well respected commander during the natioanal crisis. The Third Generation is a novel mainly focused on the life of bandit, moulding some bandit characters with rebellious spirit like Hai Jiao and Liu Yuan. In his works, the bandits from the Xiao Ju mountain are regarded as a group of righteous bandits and these kind of righteous behaviors are performed in the two followling ways, one is that on the side of internal regulations, the other is well refleceted on the relationship with farmers, he demonstrated the righteous image by means of contrast and comparision: like the comprision of bandit's attitude toward farmers and officails and landlords, also he compared bandits with the local army. Xiao demonstrated the complexity of the bandits'world by exquisie and vivid method, he showed that the bandits have a strong desire toward a better life, although there are confidence and confusion. These multi-faceted image makes his works readable, and the image more distinctive and vivid.The bandit culture has the following characteristics, one is most the bandits were forced to be bandit, and they have the common characteristics that most northeastern people share, simplicity, righteousness, integrity, the passion for life, care for the crops, the other is that their noble maral integrity like rebellious spirit and perseverance, such as Tie Ying Captain, Liu Yuan, Hai Jiao and so on, the third is that depicts the two sides of the bandit culture, on the one side, there is kindness, integrity, sympathy for the minor, providing generosity for the poor, this sort of fabulous side of humanity, meanwhile they are born in the turbulent times, there was little restrictions from the side of the government, so the society was quite in disturbance, finally it is the depiction of the woman bandit, especially the image Cui Ping in the work The Third Generation, whicn not only fufill the content of the bandit culture, but also make people informed of the life and their inner world of the bandit through Xiao Jun's work.The significance of the bandit culture in Xiao Jun's work lies in the following aspects: it vividly recurred the historical environment of that time, it extols the positive influence of the bandit culture, what is more, we can have a better understanding of Xiao Jun through his work.We should hold a dialectical materialism attitude as well as a historical materialism attitude toward Xiao'work, however, there are some advantages and some shotcomings in the works, and you can feel a strong sense of the third dimension, as he moulds the image of the bandits, depicts the life from many different aspects, and he also combines perfectly bandit life with the farming life, and we can feel the life of Eastern Liaoning Province, besides, the devices of comparision, we should offer a high evaluation, however,the ideal description of that bandit is not widely accepted, what is more, the subjective and romantic attitude of toward bandit are the insufficient points in his works.