The Earth Dream: From The Luqing River To The Highland

Zhang Wei is both a practitioner and a thinker of the literary world.“You are on the Highland” is a book written by Zhang Wei with great efforts in twenty-two years.It can be called the spiritual history of Chinese contemporary intellectuals,the history and appeal of the sons of the earth and memorandum of history and times.In the past,literary studies were often biased towards changes in the time dimension,while there was not much tilt in the extension of the spatial dimension.In Zhang Wei's “You are on the Highland,” there appeared a more concentrated and spectacular group of spatial images.The basic attributes of geography space are endowed with the connotation of literary and spiritual dimensions.From the perspective of literary geography,this paper expounds the rich description of space in “You are on the Highland,” and the space description of Zhang Wei in the comparison of writer systems.It uniquely demonstrates the characteristics of transformation,mobility,collectiveness,and follow-up.In addition to the introduction,there are three main parts:Except for explaining the basic situation of Zhang Wei and the series of “You are on the Highland”,the introduction also summarizes the previous research situation and sorts out the ideas and methods of this article.The first part,geography and author: Peninsula region and creation of Zhang Wei.Literary geography first focused on the influence of geography on literary works.The unique natural geography of the Jiaodong peninsula,the topography,animals and plants are closely related to Zhang Wei's life.Humanistic factors such as Confucianism,Taoism,and Yiqi are also invisibly absorbed by Zhang Wei.Zhang Wei's keen sense of nature and humanism made him show a kind of geological exploration in the “You are on the Highland”.The second part,geography and literature: spatial image and spiritual recourse.Natural and human geography has given Zhang Wei the spirit and empathy of his writing.His “You are on the Highland” is also contained in a series of natural,literary and spiritual spaces.Zhang Wei's spatial sustenance experienced the process of “Luqing River-Wildlands-Highland”.With the increase of social attributes,the natural attributes and geographical meanings given to space are continuously decreasing,and the literary and even spiritual aspects of the space are borne.The significance of the above has grown and the space has been deepened and sublimated from the geographical level to the spiritual level.From the “Luqing River” to the “Highland” is not only a shift in the spatial dimension,but also a change in the internal narrative of the text in the time dimension,which is also the deepening of ideal pursuit of the “earth” along with Zhang Wei's life experience from teenager to youth and the middle-aged.The third part,the author and literature: space aesthetics and creative vision.The study of literary geography not only pays attention to the author's construction of a certain geographical space under the influence of natural landscapes,but also values the influence of such spatial construction on the writer's works and their creative ideas and expressions,that is,the artistry and aesthetic meaning conveyed in the works.Zhang Wei maintains a unified spirit in these different spatial transformations and has his own clear artistic pursuit,ideological expression and value position.