An Expression Of Returning To The Original Life

The construction of the mother image in the history of literature is one of the classicthemes, because the topic about "Mother" is with the root of Chinese civilization which isquite sensitive to be mentioned for thousands of years. Literary works as the reflection ofsocial life, due to the changes of the background of the social development, underwent avery complicated process of development especially the mother image. The image of motherin contemporary literature not only inherits the previous mothers’ characters, but also in theconstantly changing, has a more plump, multiple complex character.Hong Ying as a representative feminist writer in Chinese contemporary literary world,after accepting the double effects of the Eastern and Western cultures, began to form her ownindividual unique writing style. In recent years, Hong Ying’s literary works are often in theinternational award-winning, causing a new upsurge of paying close attention to her in theliterary arena. The mother image of Hong Ying is one of the most representative in her manyliterary image. She shaped a series of mother image who was real and sensible, distinctiveand plump, with the "Mothers" daring to love and hate, to cry and tolerate, full of vividdetails, so that their every action touched our heartstrings deeply.The main body of this paper is divided into three parts, first of all, based on HongYing’s novels, mining the inner world of the mothers’ characters. Make further discussionabout mothers’ brave and persistence character and the spiritual temperament of adhering tothe ontology of life desire when return to the text. Secondly, this paper discusses therelationship between grand history, individual memory and the mother image. By observingand studying on two aspects of the external historical background and the internalpsychological world, clear the novelist how to shape the unique character of the image ofmother. Finally, make a brief overview about the mother image in previous literary works byusing comparative thinking; explore the standpoint which Hong Ying shaped mother image,and what is the influence of East-West cultural background on her creation, then thinkingabout the value of the mother image construction in Hong Ying’s literary works.