Wu Zuxiang’s Novels And Family Culture

Family culture,as an important part of Chinese traditional culture,influences writers’ literary creation with its strong penetration and influence.Born in a big feudal family,Wu Jidui always contains unique family cultural characteristics in his few works.The connotation of family culture in Wu’s novels has different manifestations in different periods.In the early 1930 s,Wu Group-mi inherited the anti-feudal tradition of the May 4th Movement.The family culture connotation in the novels of this period is mainly reflected in the criticism of the feudal family system.The phenomena of ghost wives,abandoned wives and child brides in the works show Wu’s critical attitude towards the feudal marriage system,feudal parents and feudal ethics.During the period of rural bankruptcy in China in the 1930 s,he analyzed the bad social and economic conditions by showing the economic functions,rules of etiquette and laws and the process of dissolving patriarchal personality in the traditional family system.The connotation of family culture was mainly manifested in the maladjustment of the feudal family system in the times.During the War of Resistance Against Japan,Wu started with the inferior elements of national culture to stimulate people’s deep-rooted sense of family.The connotation of family culture is mainly embodied in the cohesion of family and the national spirit of the unity of family and country.On the artistic level of family narrative,Wu is good at constructing images of family ruins in his works.Through the presentation of images of house ruins,ancestral temple ruins and shop ruins,he constructs a sad rural world.From the perspective of returning home in the first person,he reveals the dilapidated social status quo of Southern Anhui society and places his deep thought on the times and society.The characters in Wu’s works respect the principle of coexistence of beauty and ugliness.They have strong ethical color and outline various life styles.Exploringthe family culture contained in Wu’s works can not only reveal the changes of social history,but also have a deeper understanding of the writers’ creative characteristics and Chinese traditional culture.