The Modern Literature Tradition In The Creation Of Wang Zengqi’s Stories

The author investigates the associations between idiosyncrasies, literary perception ofWang Zengqi’s stories and modern literary tradition from four perspectives, which consists ofthe individualism convention, pan-politicization convention, modern lyric literature andmodern and literary language of the new May4thliterature.Influenced by the individualism tradition of the new May4thliterature, Wang Zengqi hascome to the realization of composing stories in the1940s, which lays the foundation for hiswriting in regard with literary and stylistic perception.In the late1940s, the argument between the school of the left-wing literature and theliberalism scholars creates divergences which triggers such issues as individualism orcollectivism, and literary aesthetic value or literary function. In the1960s, Wang Zengqistrived to alter the negative situation led by the pan-politicization, even though there appearsawkward literary context in his stories.Wang Zengqi has been fairly influenced by Fei Ming and Shen Congwen’s storieswhereby he devises his own aesthetic room. He introduces the lyric literature from the poeticcontext to the secular context. What is more important, there is Wang’s individual thinkingconcerning literature writing, attitude towards life or the entanglement between dream andreality which constitutes the lyric literature.Wang Zengqi sticks to the linguistic ontology, the vernacular and prose features in hisstories make a protest against the Europeanization and Mao’s literary style. Based on themastery of the vernacular language in Zhao Shuli and Laoshe’s stories and elegant literarylanguage of Fei Ming and Shen Congwen’s stories, Wang creates his own literary style whichis accurate and vivid. Besides, he indicates the imagination of the secular life, presenting thecharacteristics of the individualism of the scholar.Regarding Wang Zengqi’s stories as approaches to the reconsideration or recognition ofthe modern literature, further investigation on the connection between modern literature andcontemporary literature can be conducted. It is hold that Wang Zengqi is the pioneer of theroot-seeking literature. However, the author argues that the root-seeking literature solely aims to find a substitution for its legal sayings. Wang could not dodge that the broken culturalcontext in the modern literary tradition, but its vitality can be seen with the constantprogression of the modern literature. On top of that, The traditional kernel spirit is composedof the intellectual spirit, in the change of times his personal literary practice is deviation orstick to the spirit of the modern intellectual position, this is this article can cause moreconcern to the academia.