Research On Ye Guangqin’s Novels From The Perspective Of Manchu Culture

Ye Guangqin’s double identity as a Manchu and a female writer has attracted much attention in recent years, and has become a unique charm of contemporary literary world.Since then she started her writing career in 1980 s, she had a grand vision and various component, covering multiple kinds of art as fiction, essay and drama, which have already achieved an excellent success. Her deep accumulation on Manchu culture and spiritual temperament express the history of ups and downs comes from her individual life experience, in the meantime women writer’s gentle and delicate feelings criticize mutation of the modern society. This article attempts to interpret Ye Guangqin’s novels in the perspective of Manchu culture, from Manchuria traditional national spirit, the external manifestations of the character of the popular art demands and other aspects, to discover the national psychological connotation of the author and her works, and to reveal the influence of Manchu culture on Ye Guangqin’s novels.The introduction part focuses on the research background and the remaining research status. Briefly explain the process of Ye Guangqin’s self-identification of Manchu identity, as the family fell apart after she left to Shaanxi, serving in the countryside, and the extraterritorial survival experience altogether assist to develop the personality and temperament. To define the object and scope of the study, that is, the ecological novels, the family novels and the novels of profound consideration on Sino Japanese War, and then clarifies the problem that this paper hopes to solve. In the first part, the author digs up the cultural psychology of Ye by analyzing her artistic expression of the Manchu spiritual core in the text, such as the Shaman culture in the concept of getting close to nature, all creatures have the spirit of the totem worship, etc., in order togive further clarification on the relationship between Ye Guangqin’s works and the existence of the Manchu spirit. In the second part, the map of the character of the man with the character of the Manchu character is constructed. And according to that pattern above, the author analyses their attitude toward life, the pursuit of life and the values among the specific world of servants, Manchu woman and the aristocratic, from which shows Ye Guangqin’s thinking about the complex emotions and human nature of the Manchu family. The third part bases on the Manchu literary tradition, to explore Ye Guangqin’s literary creation has inherited the literary preferences and aesthetic psychology of the Manchu ancestors and literary predecessors, combining Manchu art and other aspects of the pursuit of art, reveals her attempt on reflecting the whole nation and the vicissitudes of life through the personal perspective about the very family history,and then express the author’s reflection and anxiety on the real society. The fourth part focuses on the relationship between the Manchu and Beijing’s flesh and blood. With the help of Ye Guangqin writing for the characteristics of Beijing folk customs, on the one hand, it shows her desire to express the complex emotion of Beijing; on the other hand, it can also provide a new example of the "Beijing studies". The conclusion part through the relationship between Manchu culture and literature creation and the three-dimensional display in the text, in the national cultural psychology deeply reflect different historical inheritance and fission time after, discover the purpose of the author’s reshaping of the Manchu nationality.