Cultural Themes Of "the Right Bank Of The Ergun River"

Chi Zijian is a unique contemporary literary writer, who focuses her writing perspective on the unique regional culture and national culture in Northeast China by using a tender and soft style to express a concern about human ecology. Her literature creation is like a cool spring into the literary world, and a cool wind into the readers in the busy metropolitans. Facing the current ecological crisis of culture, she presents us with a desolate and magnificent" The Right Bank Eergu’Na River, which leads readers into the primitive, ecological harmonious environment of the Ewenki world. Her intelligent writing and rational conclusions reflect on the embarrassment, sadness and helplessness during the development of human civilization.The paper attempts to study the harmonious and ecological situation of the Ewenki nationality and interprets the culture value of the novel from their material culture, spiritual culture Shaman culture, and ecological culture. The Ewenki nationality is the last Chinese hunting nomads, whose culture is with strong regional characteristics and divine nature. Chi Zijian, using Ewenki’s nearly a hundred years of history as a carrier, pays close attention to the dilemma of them, as a fragile nationality, in the process of rapid development of industrial civilization,The first part of this paper focuses on the analysis of their material culture through hunting culture, reindeer culture as well as the birch bark culture in order to prove the uniqueness and rationality of their primitive existence.The second part focuses on the analysis their spiritual beliefs, i. e. the Shaman culture theme. Shaman culture is is the core of this novel, and a foundation of their culture. Shamanism in the text is the most explicit external presentation of Shaman culture. The religious belief that every species has spirit and the religious rituals resulted from pantheism, as reflected in the novel, demonstrates to the readers an explicit ecological and ethical value. The final part analyzes the novel’s most profound ecological culture theme. National material culture and Shaman culture constitutes the content of the theme of ecological culture, i. e. natural ecology and spiritual ecology. Chi Zijian’s description of their life and production is not only a simple presentation of their folk life because the formation of such culture is the result of natural selection, but it presents a the harmonious picture between man and nature. Shaman culture acts as a media between man and nature, which gives the Ewenki people a spiritual world deriving from animism. This is also the root cause of their harmony with nature.