Identity Search In The Frontier

In the middle of the 19th century,ancient China was opened to the outside world by the powerful ships and cannons of western powers.All kinds of new ideas swarmed in at that time,awakening the sleeping people,especially the new culture movement,as an ideological enlightenment movement,liberated the spirit of the young people and guided them to social reform and save the country from danger.With the vigorous development of the new culture movement in Beijing and S hanghai,the May 4th new ideological trend gradually swept across the country.However,due to the closed geographical location,the villages and towns in BaShu area still maintained the old and decaying side of ancient C hina,slowly and hard to breathe the "new" air.Thanks to the efforts of some educators,new ideas spread in BaShu,creating conditions for the young people to accept the new ideas.Young Ai Wu in the process of learning the new culture,see clearly the old family of the narrow and BaShu township darkness,may fourth new ideological trend shook the young Ai Wu’s old ideas,stimulate the will to find,the strong desire to seek new study prompted Ai Wu from home from the hometown of BaShu.Childhood experience gave Ai Wu the "restless" factor,the family memory filled his initial imagination of the frontier,the "sacred labor" to strengthen the belief of work and study,so the search for a hazy will sublimated into a kind of action-to the southwest frontier.Influenced by the may fourth new literature,Ai Wu inevitably had to examine the frontier land with the enlightenment.The dead life in the countryside showed the backward and decaying side of the frontier land for Ai Wu.The old order was still maintained here,and the remnants of barbarism and violence were still retained.The morbid human nature of the people at the bottom of the frontier caused Ai Wu’s reflection on the revolutionary class theory.When Ai Wu no longer sympathized with the people at the bottom,nor did he agree with their views,it was a deeper manifestation of enlightenment consciousness.The wandering experience in NanYang brought a unique colonial experience to Ai Wu,which made him realize the deception of the colonial government and aroused a strong sense of national identity.As the main body of the enlightenment,hunger and wandering gave him the pain of survival,while the loneliness of the ideal and the sight of the way out made him fall into a heavy spiritual anxiety.In order to get rid of the dark and dreary hometown of BaShu,the young man Ai Wu seemed to fall into the "gray old city circle" in the border area.Relying on the frustration of "book" knowledge and the weakness of his own strength,he lowered the moral attitude of the intellectual youth to a certain extent and showed a swinging attitude towards enlightenment.The purpose of the search is to identify himself.He is the writer of the people at the bottom.The life spurted out from them made Ai Wu see the new power of national rejuvenation,highlighting the dominant position of the people in social reform.In addition to the chance,the choice of Ai Wu to join the left alliance is inevitable,that is,his own realism spirit of facing life and the spirit of active struggle.Joining the left union is also a process of identification and run-in.The writing of the frontier area is integrated into the literary context of the left-wing literature,which connects Shanghai with the frontier area through revolution and political discourse.