Canal Writing In Modern And Contemporary Chinese Novels

On June 22,2014,at the Thirty-Eight World Heritage conference held in Doha,the capital of Qatar,"China's Grand Canal" was successfully selected into the world cultural heritage list,which opened a new chapter in the development of China's Grand Canal.In the context of the application for the world heritage of the Grand Canal,various disciplines began to re-examine the significance and value of the canal,and the research of literary works on the theme of the canal also entered a heyday.The literary creation of canal theme existed in ancient times,but the prosperous ancient canal writing did not perdure well in modern times in modern times.This phenomenon did not change until the founding of the People's Republic of China.In the 1950 s,the relatively stable political environment provided the basic conditions for the development of canal novels.At this time,Liu Shaotang's creation was the most representative.However,the cold winter of literature in the sixties and seventies made the creation of canal novels fall into silence again.It was not until the end of the seventies that they came back to life and reached the first peak in the eighties.At present,the success of the Grand Canal's application for the world heritage has provided new opportunities for the development of canal themed novels.On the one hand,the number of publications has increased significantly compared with the past.These works not only enrich the diversity of modern and contemporary literature,but also add new colors to the River writing in the history of modern and contemporary literature with the unique historical details of the canal.On the other hand,commentators have paid more attention to the related works.Although the systematic research on canal novels has not been formed,many researchers are working hard for it.However,despite the rapid development of canal novels in recent years,its problems can't be ignored.Almost all the writers who wrote canal novels were born in the canal basin.For them,the canal bank is the existence of their hometown,and the canal is the mother river that nurtured their growth.This led some writers to immerse themselves in the description and praise of the canal style,and at the same time affected their in-depth thinking of life and artistic creation of their works.In addition,the lack of modeling and innovation is also a major obstacle to the development of canal novels.Facing and solving these problems will promote their development.