A Study On Family Ethics Writing In Liang Xiaosheng’s Novels

Liang Xiaosheng is a writer with a high sense of social responsibility,and he has always been actively involved in the construction of a harmonious society.His writing related to family ethics in his novels carries his thoughts on society and life.The parent-child ethical relationship in his novels distills the contradiction between the values of different generations.By writing about parent-child estrangement caused by the "faults of the father and mother",he exposes the repression of the children’s individuality by the remaining traditional Chinese patriarchal style and reflects on the new ethical problems brought about by the "extreme infant-concept".By writing about conflicts between parents and children caused by the "son’s and daughter’s fault",he reflects the tension among all the people in a profit-oriented society and criticizes the money-worshiping culture.In the ethical writing of husband and wife,Liang Xiaosheng makes his own reflections on the problem of gender inequality and individual independence.He searches for the causes from the limitations of men’s and women’s thinking respectively,emphasizing that both men’s macho thinking and women’s inert psychology of avoiding freedom and independence are important causes of gender inequality in the relationship between husbands and wives.Through different forms of writing about marriage crises,he emphasizes that there should be restraint in individuals’ pursuit of freedom and promotion of personality.Based on criticism and reflection,Liang is also committed to constructing an ideal family ethic,especially a father-son ethic on the basis of equality,and a husband-wife relationship on the basis of kindness and spiritual unity.Liang emphasizes that literature should have a summoning effect.In order to clearly convey his family ethical stance to readers,he often chooses to narrate from an omniscient perspective,allowing authoritative narrators to make authoritative intervention on evaluations in times of ethical confusion.He also unifies different ethical attitudes in his novels by creating functional characters,guiding his key characters to make ethical choices or directly having his functional characters endorse themselves.In terms of characterization,the author is skilled in using typological approaches,not focusing on the complexity of the characters,and repeatedly reinforcing a certain type of character in different works,so that the readers can strongly identify with a certain spiritual quality,thus he can achieve a profounder ethical expression.Liang Xiaosheng’s novels have always been based on the creative concept of "warm realism",which not only seeks to reflect the broad social reality and focus on prominent social conflicts,but also seeks solutions with idealistic sentiments at the national level in order to promote the construction of a harmonious society,embodying the responsibility and commitment of a "recorder of the times" and having important practical value.He does not pursue the thickness of philosophical thoughts and the depth of cultural reflection,nor does he write about the collusion of large families and the collapse of their buildings.Instead,he always writes with warmth and affection about how ordinary families hold their members together and how they survive historical disasters and the pains of social transformations with their simplest wisdom,showing the unique value in the literary history.However,the expression of his opinions through detaching himself from plots and scenes of his novels,his ethical judgment that leaves no gaps,and the tendency to insist on realizing his ideal in reality weaken the penetrating power of realism and the artistic influence of his novels to a certain extent.