The Bottom Literature And Humorous Culture Since The1990S In China

With the advent of social transformation in the1990s, social stratification is being more and more serious, the bottom who are at a vulnerable position in the social group received continuous attention from kinds of people.The study of the bottom become deeper and deeper,which is from sociology to literature,from edge to center, appeared a lot of literary works and literary theories.The bottom literature entered into literary field with recounting hardship story,the writers who is to uphold justice with humanistic feelings for social vulnerable groups,they are striving for the most basic material needs for the laid-off workers living in the bottom of city,migrant workers and rural farmers.To the new century,with the development of social economy,the material needs got fundamental satisfaction,people began to pay more attention to the spiritual and psychological demand about this group,then many excellent works was appearing. In addition,with the arrival of the system transformation,resulting in all aspects of society has changed,especially the culture. People no longer advocated the classics and elegance,the mass consumer culture has occupied the position of the mainstream culture.The bottom literature is also changing in such an environment.Humor,which is very interesting about a person’s language or behavior,to make other people laugh,it is the expression about the character of talker; Suffering is a fact of life,which makes people miserable.Therefore,witty and suffering has essential difference.As the change of culture environment,The bottom literature also change the single suffering narration,there are many humorous factors in the texts.On the one hand, they are humorous or funny from the people’s language or behavior;on the other hand,they also comes from the writer’s narrative,writers use a variety of artistic means to work out from the rigid misery narration pattern,full display the bottom’s material world and spiritual world.In these texts,there are many representative works:Liu Heng’s the Happiness Life of Loquacious Zhang Damin is a real show about bottom class who is live in the city,they even get the most basic housing space only depending on garrulous,but in such a confined space,Zhang Damin’s life is very "happiness";Jia pingwa’s Happy,is a true reflection about the migrant worker life,they are not only pursuing security of basic material life,but also seeking satisfaction in mental and psychological,to sow the seeds of "happy" in the city; Hu Xuewen’s Plain Field is a game of the basic rural fanner to the power and money,to the strong power and money,farmer only use their innate "pretty" to resist, ridiculous as it seems,but substantially,it is justified,cute and planned.Various representative texts are telling us that witty has become the underlying public’s attitude to life since the1990s.Of course,humor is not unwarranted whimsy,is also not add troubles to the normal social order. It is the self-mockery of the underlying mass for their own embarrassment life.to expose social problems and rethink ethics and morals.From the point of social attention to the bottom,we are pleased to see that both intellectuals and other people of the society pay more attention to the bottom,the level is rising.From the point of cultural environment,the underlying literature texts is appearing all kinds of witty narrative,not only feeding energy to the further development of the underlying literature,but also a kind of positive response to cultural environment.