Novel:a Better Way For Enlightenment

Affected by the boxed event, scholars in late Qing dynasty gradually recognize the ordinary people importance in the construction of modern country, So they set off an enlightenment for the bottom of the people. Stimulated by the foreign political novel, Liang Qichao lift " Fiction Revolution " banner, because they want to achieve the goal of enlightening on national wisdom through the novel. So publication of the novel have mushroomed in late Qing dynasty, and the new novels have been flourish. The status of the novel also reached the unprecedented height for thousands of years, from the previous "be unpresentable" to "the succinctness" of Chinese literary creation. Under this trend, the revolutionaries Huang Shizhong brothers have launched Chinese and Foreign Stories.It can help us to learn more about the new novels enlightenment color through the perspective of their in enlightening on national wisdom.Chinese and Foreign Stories also want to achieve the goal of enlightening on national wisdom through the novel,Thus in each issue of preliminaries set up special "waishu" column, which emphasize the importance of the novel in enlightening on national wisdom.Chinese and Foreign Stories in enlightening on national wisdom is mainly concentrated in quitting smoking and quitting sexual two aspects by novel. And in promoting women’s rights, against superstition and other social education, Chinese and Foreign Stories has made great efforts in these aspects.As novel magazine founded by revolutionaries,Chinese and Foreign Stories published a large number of articles to criticize the evil of the Qing government, and to propaganda the democratic revolution thinking for political enlightenment to people.Although Chinese and Foreign Stories wake up the spirit of open intelligence as the tenet. But its effect is limited in enlightening on national wisdom by analyzing its context. And other novel magazines have similar defects. Investigating its reason, is not only the internal conflict between novel art value and political enlightenment, but also more relating to the enlightenment content one-sided which scholars enlightenment to people. Content of the enlightenment of narrow weaken the enlightenment color of novel, and novel enlightenment became knowledge elite since said the words.