The Research On Xu Gang’s Ecological Literature Value

Since the twentieth century, we the humans have adopted advanced science and technology to devastate the earth home based on which we live and have rob most of the resources that have been formed on the earth through millions of years. The cost of economic development results from the increasing deterioration of our environment. In this actual context has appeared the eco-literature accordingly, Eco-literature is to quest for the root of eco-crisis. From the respect of ecology, which shoulders the responsibility to criticize our current civilization, and dig deep into the hidden factors of ecological crisis, pointing a direction for the relationship between human and the nature.In this field, Xu Gang is undoubtedly a pioneer, who has been strenuously creating works of eco-literature for over twenty years. With his broad eco-view and high responsibility for the society, he created such works as Wake Up, Lumbermen, Scouting for Our Homeland, The Earth Memoir, The Yangtze River Memoir, Magnificent Landscape, etc. which have led the reader to a road to eco-protection with their realistic criticism and consciousness of suffering.Nowadays, the ecological crisis caused huge impact on our life, Xu gang’s eco-literary creation has very important value in many aspects. From the perspective of the practical value, Xu Gang’s eco-literature reflects the sharp criticism and the deep consciousness of the reality, critique and re-examine the relationship between man and nature, advocating a harmonious development road of ecological ideal. From the respect of text interpretation,Xu Gang’s eco-literature has a strong aesthetic value, whether structure or language features of his works appear so unusual. On the structure of the text, he adopted novel and unique structure with appropriate historical depiction, insert some historical stories, myths and legends, increse the work’s readability. From the perspective of language, Xu Gang uses a lot of scientific language, whether the precision of the data or the authority of the concept all increase the work’s credibility, and at the same time, the prose lyrical language makes the arid eco-literature so beauty. Xu Gang’s eco-literary works in Chinese literature history also has the unique value, because the writer’s innovation in the creative vision and the personality construction promoted the great development of the eco-literature, laid the writer’s position in the history of literature. This essay aims to illustrate the value of Xu Gang’s works through the realistic value, aesthetic value, the value of literature history of the text, which is also the value of the research and discussion of this essay.