Natural History In Folk Literature

Folk literature is a literature with Chinese literary characteristics,but also the most local literature,reflecting the characteristics of regional cultural life,showing the special ecological landscape of the region,reflecting a unique regional characteristics.On this level,folk literature is like a museum of words,which preserves the pure national characteristics of language,customs,life and distinctive regional characteristics of animals and plants,food,landscape and so on.These are the symbols on which a nation depends and the testimony of history.Therefore,folk literature is the best successor of Chinese traditional natural history.This paper focuses on the selection of writers who can better reflect the natural heritage in local literature,Zhou Zuoren,Wang Zengqi and Wang Xiangfu,and divides their works into two parts:the early and late stage of folk literature.The early period refers to the May 4th New Literature to the age of Wang Zengqi;the later period refers to the age of Wang Zengqi.This paper is mainly divided into two parts.The first part is the first,second and third chapters of this paper.After grasping the relevant works,the author analyses the writings of Zhou Zuoren,Wang Zengqi and Wang Xiangfu respectively.Chapter one first gives a brief overview of Zhou Zuoren's view of natural history;secondly,it makes a concrete analysis of his series works of“grass and trees,insects and fishes”and the folk concepts embodied in his literary creation;finally,it explores the literary concept embodied in his works and his creative concept of belles-lettres.The second chapter first analyses Wang Zengqi's pursuit of aesthetic and creative value from the perspective of "all things are complacent in silence";secondly,it focuses on the plant writing and style writing in Wang Zengqi's works;finally,it grasps Wang Zengqi's literary creation value from the perspective of "Naturalism+Poetry:Constructing a perfect folk space".Chapter three analyses Wang Xiangfu's writing of natural relics from three parts:flowers,birds,insects and fish in writing and painting,firewood,rice,oil and salt in daily life and folk customs.The second part,the fourth chapter of this article,starts from the perspective of natural history,uses aesthetic theories such as naturalism,Bixing poetics and traditional poetry to analyze the works of these three,and grasps the aesthetic concepts of folk literature.In the last part of the introduction,from the point of view of the naturalism and by means of textual research,the author classifies and combs the series of works of the three people.