The Myth And Archetypal Criticism In Chi Zijian’s Novels

During the period of Chinese new literature, Chi Zijian has obtained affirmation on the basis of calm and firm. Since the start of writing, with the understanding of life, the believing of life, the thinking of humanity, she always cultivated her own literary garden beyond the hustle and bustle quietly. After a comprehensive reading of Chi Zijian’s novels, author explored the system of myth archetype in novels through combining corresponding theories and methods about myth and archetypal criticism and dig out the charm and value of the Chi Zijian’s novels based on studying of the narrative function and the deep meaning of each system.In the first chapter, the method of myth and archetypal criticism was used to make the rule of novel style classification. The idyllic style novel belongs to the spring series, the mystery novel is divided into the summer series, the tragic novel could be seen in the autumn series, the ironical novel constructs the winter series. However, this classification does not mean that one novel simply belong to one series, it could not be overlooked that Chi Zijian’s writing is both synchronic and diachronic. Each stage of creation had a dominant style, and it would accumulated in the writing leading the formation of the spring, summer, autumn and winter are intertwined and all have a tendency to style, rather than disappearing after the starting of a new creation stage.In the second chapter, the archetype system of religious myths of novel was framed, which mainly contains the ecstasy archetype and the moon archetype. Because of the infection of traditional culture of northeastern part of china, especially the influence of Shamanism, the source of ecstasy archetype is Shamanism Sacred Ceremony, while the Moon archetype is reflected in Shamanism Luna worship.Religious myths archetype system bring a certain narrative function to novel, the Moon archetype could be apperceived in the narrative function of suffering and warmth, while the ecstasy archetype promotes the the persistence of this model. Furthermore, this system appends religious cultural features on novels, something about Ewenki tribe’s life is revealed in the writing, such as their living habits, geographical environment, the ancestral line and so on, Shamanism culture is dipped in novels on the basis of related description about religious culture, including natural worship, animism, sacred ceremony and so on.In the third chapter, the humanity myth archetype system of novel was analyzed. This system mainly consists of the archetype of the painting and animal, The painting archetype is responsible for reflecting some kind of social or human reality by a picture, the aim of animal archetype is exploring the existence of the honesty and kind-hearted in order to express the idea of Chi Zijian about human world. The archetype system of Humanity myth brings Reiki to novel on narrative function, which presents the supernatural and mysterious of novel. Finally, Chi Zijian tried to convey her apprehension about humanity deep thinking through the construction of this system.