Hovering Between The Ideal And The Reality

LeiYan was the1940’s one of the most important writers in Beiping region. In10yearsof the process of creation，she left for later generations six story collections as well as manysingle novels and prose，she and her works were rarely given due attention in the later decadesof literary study. LeiYan’s literary creation had a close relationship with her life experiences.A good education of girlhood，her hometown of beauty and warmth，enlightenment and loveof the parents，these positive factors made LeiYan’s novels showing idealized pursuit of goodfeelings. However，love and marriage in failure，the ravages of war，the burden of the family，these spate of misfortunes made her novels having a strong practical color.This paper collected most novels of LeiYan as much as possible and analyzed them withher own experience as a starting point，to appeal to the fate of women，the desire to humanfreedom，the regression of ideal hometown and the satire and indictment of urban falsecivilization. Feudal customary marriage relationship，the role of the deformity and oppositemother-and daughter，humble social status make women difficult to have a foothold in thetraditional community，resulting in an infinite desire for freedom. Hometown will always bethe ideal home of the soul. The nostalgia and attachment for hometown as well as loss of theideal hometown，had expressed its desire to pursue a better emotional. In addition，LeiYan’sfew urban novels satirized urban false civilization and complained the darkness and injusticeof the urban society. We appreciated LeiYan’s values and outlook on life in between the idealand the reality of wandering and struggle.The ideal elements of LeiYan made her show of the attachment of human nature inworks，but during the war of the shadow city，her ideal was broken once again and again bythe reality. Therefore，whether in real life or in literary works，LeiYan all let us comprehendof her ideal of persistence and vision in the chaotic years，as well as to the reality of theresistance and struggle.