Inheritance And Evolution Of Liu Qing Rural Theme Novels

Shaanxi writer Liu Qing lives up to his reputation with his many rural theme masterpieces. The particular status and influence of Liu’s works and himself has already been an indisputable fact in spite of how terrific controversy cause by “Liu Phenomenon” in contemporary literature. Vernacular writers strive to enlighten the masses since the May 4th Movement. After more than half a century of development, their cognition and thinking of traditional cultures and modern civilization, vernacular homeland and city carrier and migrant groups and intellectuals group constitutes the complex Chinese modern native culture. As a modern intellectual, Liu Qing, with the inspiration by vernacular novels and two systems of Mao Zedong literary and art thought, dedicates his whole life to construct and practice Yan’an literature and art thought and institution, which makes great contribution for the development of Chinese vernacular literature. Yan’an literature was created under the deep integration of regional culture and alien culture. There is intrinsic connection between Liu Qing and Yan’an literature. And Liu Qing constructed rural ethic order system of era character and individual characteristics by grasping social adjustment caused by agrarian relations. This paper attempts to explain Liu’s literature career from Chinese vernacular background of rural theme novels and inheritance and evolution of Liu’s novels with the basis of Liu’s literature, and combine the Liu’s literature creation with Chinese modern vernacular history, make clear the inheritance and surpass of the May Fourth vernacular literature, construction and practice of Yan’an literature and the special contribution to the Seventeen years times; strives to reveal Liu’s literature style and feature in different period, make clear his literature steps, taps deeply the inner and external reasons of series evolution and thinks to amend the defects and dilemma of his vernacular literature on the basis of the personal character formed by traditional value system, religious belief and the national ethical order, by which to analyze Liu’s literature affect in literature history.