Shen Congwen's Thought Of "National Character" During The Anti-Japanese War

In the history of modern Chinese literature,Shen Congwen is a writer with great national sentiments.His literary works have a comprehensive and in-depth aesthetic reflection on the devastating China in the first half of the 20 th century.In his literary career,he has always practiced his literary creation practice,and strived to adhere to the artistic ideas of "tool reconstruction" and "classic reconstruction" emphasized by the New Cultural Movement and the May 4th Movement,making his Literary creation embodies a very deep sense of the times.In the whole literary creation process of Shen Congwen,especially during the Anti-Japanese War,especially in the eight years spent in Kunming,it became the focus of Shen Congwen's research controversy.Creation during the Anti-Japanese War was an important part and node of Shen Congwen's entire career.It was also a part not to be ignored by Shen Congwen's research.It should not only systematically grasp Shen Congwen's literary creation in a coherent and systematic manner,but also dialectically examine Shen Congwen at that time.During the war of resistance against Japan,Shen Congwen was the fourth stage of his self-proclaimed countryman journey,which was "quite long,quite lonely,and very hard." In this stage,Shen Congwen not only taught and wrote,but also took part in the corresponding literary and art activities.By observing Shen Congwen's literary creation and related anti-Japanese literary and art activities during this period,the discussion about human thinking and ideal personality finally returned to the theme of national transformation.Judging from the specific textual expression of its ideological connotation,while looking at the life style of countrymen from a dual perspective of city and countryside,the surviving Western Hunan world of the former gods was hidden by the original authenticity and beauty under the collision of modern civilization The lack of rational ignorance of the subject consciousness of the villagers and the gradual collapse of the high moral wall.At the same time,due to the deep understanding of the life of the rural people and the unique life experience,Shen Congwen paid more attention to the rural life paradigm under the modern time and space.He found that in the interweaving process of "constant" and "change",the rural people 's Tragic fate and future direction.On the other hand,Shen Congwen,from the perspective of urban cultural space,looks at the living forms of people in cities under modern civilization,exposes the shrinkage and depravity of personalities in urban life,and consciously critically reflects on the people from the overall development of people and national rejuvenation.Inferiority.Shen Congwen 's perspective on the criticism and reconstruction of national character is based on national sentiments,and he chooses a double critical perspective and a cultural choice that is different from contemporary intellectuals.His ultimate reference is the construction of an ideal “person”,and also Shen Congwen 's ideal life for humanity.Outlook and construction.Take the blowout period and the clear period of Shen Congwen's "national character" as the critical point of the research,grasp the development of the whole "national character" before and after the AntiJapanese War,and then grasp the ultimate direction and bearing of his thought Implication.It can be seen that Shen Congwen's transformation of national character is the focus of his thinking from "human nature" theory to "national character".At the same time,it can also draw its unique universality and aesthetic poetic characteristics,and it is also a transformation of the May 4th literary revolution.An extension of the theme of national character.