The Search And Construction Of The Literary Spiritual Home

As agrestic novelists in Chinese literature history of the 20 th century,Mo Yan’s“Gaomi Northeast Township” and Shen Congwen’s “Xiangxi World” has the unique literary value and aesthetic significance in literary world,highly evaluated by readers and critics.Mo Yan and Shen Congwen have similar experiences in childhood,which laid them similar impression mind,profound mental nourishment.Seeking for new way of life,they went to start writing.That enabled them to show similar spiritual pursuits in literature.In the age of social transformation,both of them turned their focus to their hometown,looking for inspiration for writing,standing in the folk standpoint.They constructed “Gaomi Northeast Township” and “Xiangxi World” on the basis of their real hometown in the form of literature.These were the products of the real hometown and literary imagination,having the writer’s ideal in.Mo Yan and Shen Congwen explored sound vitality from their hometown people,tried to use it to cure the atrophy phenomenon in mordern time,finding way to realize their ideal of recasting national spirit.Their common call of recasting national spirit is a great ideal inheritance between contemporary writers and modern writers.“Gaomi Northeast Township” and “Xiangxi World” have become the successful models of the writer’s literary spiritual home.The construction of the literary spiritual home is the main reason for Mo Yan and Shen Congwen’s widely recognition in the world,and provides important enlightenment for Chinese literature to the world.