The Research To The Folk Character Of Jia Pingwa's 1990s Novels

Jia Pingwa,as an influential writer in contemporary Chinese world of literature,he always stands on the side of common people's position.With a lot of enthusiasm,Jia Pingwa shows great concern for the life essence and the living condition of common people.At the same time,not only does he reveal the hard living circumstance,but also display the China original ecology culture through his fiction.In his novels,we can see the multicolored folklore,the unique way of common life and the traditional folk narrative.In a word,Jia's novel writing since 1990's presents a strong folk character.In this article,the "folk" theory of Chen Sihe is regarded as the breakthrough point to research the folk character of Jia Pingwa's novels.In terms of research method,the author takes Jia's novels since 1990's as a whole to analysis the civil characteristics from three aspects: content,narrative methods,and language of the novels.In the Chinese academic world,the theory of the folk,as a new method of the contemporary Chinese world of literature introduced by Chen Sihe and added by Wang Guangdong,has been widely accepted and used in the research by more and more people.The folk character,as a creative attitude,is not a "stand on the position of the political ideology and the intellectual value ",but a "stand on the position of the common people",which always reflects the folk culture and the living conditions by the civilian angle of view.Jia Pingwa's civilian origins from life experience makes him very familiar with the life of local urban and rural residents,especially all the emotions of the common people living in the bottom of the society.In his novel creation,he always regards south Shannxi and Xian as the places to locate.All the materials of the folk world,particularly the peculiar traditional culture of Shangzhou,make his novels present a strong folk color.So to some extent,the folk standpoint determines the angle of view of folks.From the content point of view,folk characteristic is widely rendered in Jia Pingwa's novels.Firstly,a variety of local folk culture landscape,such as folk customs,legends and folk art,are presented naturally under the view of civil in the fictional world of Jia Pingwa.Secondly,as a civilians writer,he really stands in the civilian position to concern on the suffering and the survival predicament of common people throughout its creation.At the same time,Jia Pingwa also sang the praises of the strong vitality of common people.Finally,his works vividly reveal that the underlying people frantically keen on chasing the various desires of human.On the narrative strategy of Jia Pingwa's novels,the folk trait is a typically thoughtful decision,which presents a kind of unique artistic personality and makes his fiction convey an endless artistic charm.First,Jia Pingwa abandons Grand Narrative and choose Personalized Writing to restore an uncovered real folk in his writing.Second,the tone of chatter reproduce the trivial life of common people.Third,the folk language,especially the language of peasants,such as dialect,folk songs,and the folk rhetoric,are always being used by Jia Pingwa in his folk writing,which shows us an real alive world.As a civilian intellectual and a spokesman of the bottom society,Jia Pingwa's "Folk Writing" will certainly cause reexamination of the national traditional cultures from Shaanxi,the western regions of China and even the whole world.At the same time,the "Folk Writing" will reinforce national confidence and national pride too.JiaPingwa,independent of the discourse of right in political and intellectual's enlightening discourse,gets so used to drawing resources from the civil society and caring about continuously the survival state of unimportant person.The writer thinks that the "Folk Writing" is of great importance to the contemporary Chinese world of literature.On the one hand,the "Folk Writing" can provide references for "Bottom Writing".On the other hand,it can also enhance the influence of Chinese writing throughout the world and make a great contribution to Chinese contemporary literature turning out to the world.However,the "Folk Writing" has some limitations such as the repetition in the plot,the unrestrained sexual description and the abuses of foul language,which probably causes harm to the aesthetic value of his novels.