Anxiety And Breakthrough Of Body Metaphor

Lu Min is one of the 'post-70s' representative writers.The Dongba series of novels is the gentle and honest hometown of the writer.It depicts the landscape and customs of Dongba with the theme of "goodness".The urban series of novels hid in Lu Min's secretive human nature,and highlighting the spiritual crisis of urban people.There are a lot of body writings in Lu Min's novels,mainly related to the disease,sex and death.Because the physical and individual living conditions have the similarity and cross-domain in scope,and the body has become a tool in mapping spirit,ethics,and the power.So the body has become a metaphorical body.Lumin's creation is solidification and patterning,because excessive using body metaphors.First of all,from the rhetorical view of metaphor,Lu Min's body metaphor is not innovative,and does not form his own'poetic metaphor',which is one of the reasons for her writing dilemma.Secondly,from the view of cognitive,the excessive using the body metaphor implies the contradictory duality idea in Lu Min's mind,and she forms the urban and rural opposition model.Finally,the metaphor mechanism is the direct cause of the body being obscured,and the writing concept of advocating the soul and degrading the body is the basic cause for body being obscured.In order to alleviate the writing anxiety caused by excessive metaphor,Lu Min proposed a alleviating strategy.The strategy mainly has two aspects-physical instinct and self-seeking.This reflects Lumin's fundamental change in her writing concept,that is,persisting in monism in the body and mind,and even putting the body in the first place,not as a tributary of spirit,ethics,and power.This transformation reflects the writer's efforts,but this kind of attempt is far from enough in terms of writing development.Based on Lu Min's writing status,writers can try to break through in terms of allegory and historical writing.