The Narrative Research Of Family Motif

China is a country with the most family concept, and has the most long andprofound traditional “family culture”. Family culture as the foundation of Chinesetraditional culture, has the profound influence on people’s way of thinking andbehavior style. Writers devoted to narrating family people’s survival state and thespirit world, and enriched the prosperity of the family motif narrative with theirwriting of practice. Different periods of family narrative presents differentcharacteristics and features, this article will study family narrative motif from fourparts.The first part interprets the reasons why family literary has motif properties.Firstly, this article sets the concept of family and the family literature, then expoundsthe reason is that family motif is not only the history of collective unconscious, butalso has the most historical and cultural value of the subject matter.The second part is the core of the text, and it sums up the classic narrative modeof family motif. Home and countries’ isomorphism pattern: this mode of narrationreflects the destiny of the country by revealing the rise and fall of the family, and thedisputes the old and the new forces of the family by revealing the class andnational enlightenment. Revolutionary historical pattern: it shows that revenge of thefamily narration interspersed with in the "grand narrative" of mainstream ideology,and a distinct class emotion; Folk narrative patterns: it shows folk history in theperspective of folk culture, and the history of the main character is no longer a partyhero interspersing with myth and folk legend in his works and paying attention to theplot of the important role in human impulse in narrative at the same time; Stream ofconsciousness narrative pattern: the writers actively learn from stream ofconsciousness writing skills of western William Faulkner’s 《the sound and the fury》using the limited knowledge of visual Angle and prosing structure and revealing thecharacters’ psychological trend and emotional experience in the character of the innermonologue; Survival motivated by desire for ethical narration mode: it describesdesire, such as food and sexual,as the motivation of the survival predicament by theindividual in the family ethics, and reveals the diversity and complexity of humannature with family ethics and life consciousness of outstanding.The third part discusses the aesthetic value of the family motif narrative. Family motif shows artistic narrative space, it incisively and vividly describes the vastgeographical space, profound historical and cultural space, the character of complexpsychological space and domestic space of family and family women’s bounded spiritspace; Depicting the suffering consciousness of the common expression of themankind; Reflections on family culture in history which describes the decliningfamily tradgy, and family and family person’s “The phenomenon of end” so as to seethe real family motif narrative brings a person the aesthetic feeling and emotionalresonance.The fourth part is about the family narrative criticism. The theme, the plot andcharacters are modeled between works; Political and cultural factors’ strongpenetration on the narrative of the family reduce the family ideological content andnarrative literature, which has appeared defects that political is greater thanliterariness by the posterity; Family narrative under the impact of western ideas andculture theory should take a rational method for reference, and integrate organicallythe traditional family culture and the western theory. Family narrative literary motifshould cast off the yoke of the narrative mode, seek the expression of individualcreativity, showing the unique and in-depth understanding of family culture.