The Search For Harmony Between The Ideal And The Reality

Tie Ning is an outstanding writer in China's contemporary literature history. She brings readers so many different style of literary works, using her profound inspiration and continuous innovation, which meet the aesthetic expectation. This article tries to explore the constant background behind her ever-changing style, namely Tie Ning's pursuit of creation--searching for harmony between ideal and realityTie Ning's works can be divided into three stages:firstly, the period of Xiangxue, secondly, the period of "The rose door", lastly, the period of "Pregnant women and Cattle" until now. This reflects the author's the different understanding of life experience at different stages, through the original innocence, to experience the baptism of wind and rain, and see through the darkness of nature, finally returning to the real life. The characters of these works also have similar psychological motion, from breaking the balance to seek harmony to build new balance. Two great contrast childhood experience,dual perspective between urban and rural,conscious pursuit of literary creation and the effect of literary predecessors. In order to construct the harmony between the ideal and the reality, Tie Ning have found three ways in the novel:Looking back to the tradition, embracing the modern life based on the tradition, the harmony between the sexes. Although her pursuit of this has the idealized colors, but still it is precious, in the current impetuous clamor literature context. Her caring for the home of human spirit, the efforts on new "good" Discourse ethics, represents a valuable contemporary value pursuit. It is worthy of our admiration.