Han Shaogong's Novels And Folk Culture Of Western Hunan

Han Shaogong,a representative writer of the “root-seeking” literature in 1980 s,has a great influence on Chinese literary circle through his own literary creation.For a long time,he has been keeping an eye on social history and cultural changes and writing his own thoughts and feelings in novels with unremitting enthusiasm.Since the time of Shen Congwen,a great writer in China,writers specialized in writing works related with western Hunan continue to emerge,among which Han Shaogong is the most prominent.His novel series about “root-seeking” literature embody folk culture of western Hunan.In literary creation,he selects the folk culture in Western Hunan as the background,therefore,his works is with specific western Hunan's characteristics.Firstly,the following reasons spur Han Shaogong on writing the folk culture in western Hunan.The primary season is that this is a kind of root-seeking in a time of anxiety,which is the special times background for Han's selection of the folk culture of western Hunan.The second reason is that Han's experience in western Hunan has laid a foundation for creating works related with folk culture.The third reason is that as an intellectual,Han Shaogong possesses a deep humanistic care of western Hunan.Secondly,Han Shaogong's novel is inundated with cultural factors in western Hunan,including folk figures,ballads,customs,stories and dialects,etc.,which show his persistent pursuit and exploration of folk culture.The real life and cultural connotation gradually and clearly appear in his writing on the folk culture of western Hunan.Thirdly,the folk culture of western Hunan has great influence on Hang Shaogong's creation.Having been fully immersed in the culture with abundant western Hunan's characteristics,Han Shaogong has been gradually formed a nature view that all things have souls and magical thoughts.Of course,this doesn't affect his rational thinking.Fourthly,the significance can be gotten through the relationship between a serial of works coined by Han Shaogong and the folk culture of western Hunan.Han's works vividly and incisively show his desires for maintaining nature and human's nature and reconstructing national morals.That is to say,the significance of the works relevant to folk culture of western Hunan written by Han shaogong relies on maintaining nature and human's nature and reconstructing national morals.