| As a large agricultural country, the farmer is the main body of China. To a certain extent, the investigation of farmer’s current survival state can show China’s development direction. The narration of "the countrymen come into city" is closely linked with the individual life who lives in the context of Chinese modernization. As is known to all, since the spread of reform in1979, with the development of modernization and the ease of urban-rural dual structure, together with the new century impact of globalization, China’s rural society happened abnormally profound changes and transformation, billions of villagers from the vast loess land crushed into the city and forrmed a unstoppable social great migration movement. If traditional rural life is people who stick to the land, is the family clan in the unity and continuation, then today’s rural life is people who betray the land, is the family clan which goes to collapse and the end. Thus a blooming of literature narrative in "the countrymen come into city" is born and becomes a trend to be reckoned with in the contemporary literary world.From the beginning of the80s, Sun Huifen starts to pay close attention to the country people who experience times change and historical impact after they enter into the city."The countrymen come into city" is the main theme and the narrative angle of her novels."My first writing is in order to escape, that is the betrayal of the country world, later writing, is to keep watch that is my memories of the rural land, instead of changing, I’m trying to announce the puzzle of human nature and reach the depth of the human nature and the depth of fate." She regards "the countrymen come into city" as the breakout of spirit. Besides, she is always thinking of their spiritual dilemma and options. No doubt,"As the main body of a large agricultural country, farmers’action choices and mental journey in the modernization process is the most valuable interaction between current novels and modernization." The author Sun Huifen who comes from Zhuanghe of southern Liaoning is sensitive to the emotional ups and downs of everyone coming into city. They have beautiful fantasies about the happy life of city, but also are involved in the social flow who struggling blind impulse in the changing times. They have to endure the double pain experiences of being margins in the city and strangers at home. The author is always standing in their shoes and walking into the deep of their spirit world from the details of the daily life. Then she will describe the difficult modernization and the historical change in life context. Therefore, the narrative of "the countrymen come into city" becomes the best research angle and focus of China’s modernization that is caused by its keen mastery of the relationship between urban and rural areas. Anyway, it produces a profound impact and practical significance.This paper discusses Sun Huifen’s novels, analysis her narrative of "the countrymen come into city", and constructs the relationship between Sun Huifen’s novels and contemporary Chinese problem. The problem is about urban and rural in contemporary China, to a great degree, when she observes the relationship between the urban and rural areas, that means she is studying the Chinese modernity. In this scenario, the narrative of "the countrymen come into city" is the narrative of Chinese modernity, and that is a focus on Chinese modernity. With this research purposes, this paper tries to elaborate Sun Huifen’s focus on Chinese modernity from three chapters:Firstly, we will talk about the relationship between contemporary Chinese (especially farmers)"survival" space and the Writer’s "writing" space; Secondly, we will pay attention to the relationship between the Characters’ life experiences in the novels and contemporary Chinese history; Thirdly, we will compare Sun Huifen’s "Xie Ma Village" with Shen Congwen’s "Border Town", trying to find the similarities and differences, though they both write the rural area and villagers. |
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