Shen Congwen Later In Life

Shen Cong wen’s life was basically a single pieces of state After1949. After found a state30years, his experience it may be said is a twentieth Century Chinese modern intellectuals in a time capsule. This article attempts from Shen Congwen in1949and the thought development and the own experience, and the subsequent state of life and spiritual world of the analysis, to explore how he is at times torrent search and adhere to his own position, why in times of stress and blow to Chinese cultural relic research to make a tremendous contribution. On one hand he had some times follow, don’t hand in the potential level to hold his philosophy of life, the hard ground off the change process, both the political pressure, but also has its own ideology restrict. Shen Congwen is how to balance the contradiction between the two. His experience is reflected ideological value and universal significance is worth pondering.This article carries on the elaboration from five parts:Chapter1:a "Crazy" elegy.From1947to1948of two years, Shen Congwen is faced with the turbulent situation with the double pressure from both sides.(Shao Quanlin, Feng Naichao, Guo Moruo and other critical) He felt himself in front of politics holds, also be keenly aware of the political pressure on himself, once started debate, to build national vigor of hope has been gradually ablation in endless boredom and fear.Facing fierce criticism of the outside world, the pressure of official ideology, Shen Congwen realized his thought in existence crisis. It is a difficult choice for him to abandon the " self" into the new society. Unable to clear his own the fault of the mind, and it will be difficult to take off to change, difficult to into the new society. Finally, it will into" I lost state" in the two contradictory sharp pull.Chapter2:in broken bind in themselves.From the perspective of shen congwen’s issue is how to his own life to adjust the external form. The first quarter, from literature to cultural relics.(a), literary creation failed. Shen Congwen self stand" Literature" and the new social realities required literature view is totally different. He can’t accord to his hearts the life emotion to creation. And also don’t find a creation between the balance point to the new social reality and self literature. Finally, he had to give up the literary creation.(b), the work of cultural relics on the gratifying achievements. Shen Congwen was aware of his own literary life difficult to continue without making a choice, so he selected cultural relics.he is also seeking the life of another way out, and it is the creation of a self trouble release method. Study of cultural heritage to individual unique life experience as the core, so he can be relaxed attitude to face, and gradually in the cultural field has made gratifying achievements, filled his literary lost sense of satisfaction and confidenceThe second quarter:music repair self life.(a), life forms in the music free stretch. After the body of life alive, his spirit is still as the ambiguous state. At this time, the outside and the family’s pressure to let him have a deep sense of alienation. Music let his mind restored calm gradually, to purify.(b), personal notes in the era of melody of alienation and fit. Life can be recovered after.Shen Congwen hand efforts with the mainstream consciousness in tune. On the other hand, self thought inner freedom notes are still active existence. Show the melody and The Times is not harmonious.Chapter3:life in "training rules" and "freedom" of the struggleThe first quarter:life in "training rules" by the "individual" to "community". From1950to1957, Shen Congwen experienced the political and ideological transformation of the revolution of the North China University. Participated in the Sichuan Neijiang reform movement. In1956he attend to the National Political Consultative Conference of1957, the novels are published when climate warmer. In such a process, he gradually coalesced with the mainstream consciousness, and completed from the" individual" to "group" changedThe second quarter:the spirit of freedom and looms.(a), in the era of giant announce clamour " move" in search of" static" living space. In this" move" on the changes of the times, he only to find the" static" space from the folk, from natural deep. It is in this" static" space, he can return to the true inner self. Also in order to maintain intellectual contemplation of personnel changes of rational spirit.(b),"the letters"--a free spirit and nature. Potential letter writing, let his soul free, go to town. Present a self life true state. He express his strong desire to spiritual freedom in the words of a book.The third quarter:literary creation is failed in the struggling of the "free" and "training ".On one hand, he adhere to the inner freedom of creative thought, on the other he was controlled by the official ideology of containment, and writing methods has been "out of date", he can’t adapt to the new era of the writing requirement, so his literary creation in failure.Chapter4:life in the "return" of meaning is confusedFacing the foreign and domestic gradually rising of "shen congwen" hot in1970s, Shen Congwen’s heart is a complex and contradictory state. On the one hand when "return", many of the sound of praise to give themselves and others that the upper part of the body, he appear terror, afraid. Don’t hand of oneself finally "returning" pleased, moved. At the same time for the fate of their history of oppression, and won’t say grief, difficult or pain.Chapter5:the summary.Shen Congwen’s life state while in a disastrous state, be reduced to fragments, but hard to bond himself after1949.in the stream of time, though he seems to have the trifle, but in potential level still clung to his life the independence of thought. His literature creation in the public level to the failure though, in the writing of potential but has more reveal the intellectual freedom spirit. His experience is helpful for us to explore the whole of the20th century modern Chinese liberalism intellectuals in the development of thought process, its unique life thought for later generations also left a deep revelation.