The Study Of Jia Pingwa's Qinling Mountain Novels

Jia Pingwa,a celebrated contemporary novelist,has fruitful creations.From the perspective of urban-rural relationship,his novels could be divided into two categories,which include of rural theme novesl centered on Shangzhou and city theme novels centered on Xi'an.Both types of novels have contained rich elements of the Qinling Mountain,especially rural novels.Jia Pingwa's rural theme novels have undergone new changes,which broken through the early Shangzhou pattern and gradually formed the scene of the Great Qinling Mountain since the new century.Therefore it is necessary to study Jia Pingwa's novel creation from the perspective of Qinling geospatial.This article mainly analyzes Jia Pingwa's Qinling Mountain novels from four aspects include of theme presentation,cultural origin,character image and aesthetic characteristics.Jia Pingwa's Qinling Mountain novels have deep roots.From the perspective of natural space,Qinling's unique geographical location and complex ecological environment give the infinite possibilities for his literary creation.From the perspective of cultural origins,the religious culture of Qinling Mountain has a long history,such as medical culture and ancestral culture,which provides a steady supply of nutrients for the characterization and narrative space construction of Jia Pingwa's novels.Specific to the growth environment of Jia Pingwa,it can be found that Shangluo,which is at the border of Henan and Hubei provinces brings together Qinlong culture,Central Plains culture,Jingchu culture and these regional historical cultures are intertwined with modern urban and rural culture which make Jia Pingwa's novels containing rich and diverse cultural connotation.Jia Pingwa's Qinling Mountain Novels have two main themes: enlightenment and sorrow.Affected by the geographical environment,the peasants in the Qinling Mountains have a closed mind and the rural reform is difficult.In addition,in the early years of the Qinling Mountain,banditry was rife,and the lower classes,especially women,lived in dire straits.Therefore,the idea of enlightening the peasants in the mountains became the important creative theme of Jia Pingwa's novels in the last century.Since the new century,Jia Pingwa has gradually turned his attention to the atrophy of Qinling Mountain's natural ecology,thedegradation of the wildness of life,and the distress brought by the historical nothingness.Therefore,the deep distress became the center of the narrative of Jia Pingwa's novels during this period.In the theme of enlightenment,Jia Pingwa shapes the living characters such as new and old peasants,bandits,weak women.The new peasants are open-minded and active,and the old peasants are conformity,more conservative and restrained.There are old and new peasants,and righteous and wicked bandits.These gangsters basically lead to the same destination which are isolated from those love and perished in despair,whether good or bad.Most of the weak women in Jia Pingwa's writings are charming in appearance,straightforward and hot in character,and settled down in the harsh living environment.The character images in Jia Pingwa's enlightenment narrative are characterized by typification,and the shaping of female images is often saturated with strong patriarchal consciousness.In the theme of distress,Jia Pingwa shapes the group portraits of degenerate people in the changes of rural society and the images of revolutionaries who lack the revolutionary faith.Human degradation includes the degradation of physiological mechanisms and health,as well as the degradation of thought.The revolutionary motives,methods of revolution,and the end of the revolution demonstrate a class of revolutionary images of lacking revolutionary beliefs.The theme of Jia Pingwa's Qinling Mountain novels is deepen by these vivid characters.The Qinling Mountains endowed Jia Pingwa's novels creation with unique aesthetic characteristics.The unity of opposites between the reality life and the image of the world,the Qinling mountain history and the modern urban civilization,the historical texts and the writing of The Times,constitutes the distinctive structural features of Jia Pingwa's Qinling mountain novels.In terms of style,Jia Pingwa's Qinling Mountain novels presents the interweaving of the sea breeze and mountain-like weather of the great Qinling Mountain and the mysterious charm of the hilly towns with strange and strange powers,which have the aesthetic characteristics of being rigid and soft,and vastness and mystery.