| The combination of novel and drama is the most prominent feature of Chen Yan’s novels.As one of the representatives of traditional national culture,Opera not only adds aesthetics of traditional opera to Chen Yan’s novels,but also infuses them with profound connotation of national spirit.In his novels,Chen Yan maintained the lyrical characteristics of opera creation,continued the beauty and goodness of traditional opera aesthetics,and made a solemn reflection on the entertainment era in a dialectical way of sadness and joy.At the same time,Chen Yan interprets the profound connection between natural life and cultural life by virtue of the inherent life and culture characteristics of Qinqiang and the common enlightenment function of opera and novel,and extends the enlightenment function of opera in the form of novel.As the representative culture of Shanxi province,Qinqiang plays a constructive role in the localism and universality of Chen Yan’s novels.The local knowledge related to Qinqiang completes the writing practice of constructing localism and transcending localism in his novels.And as the people’s art of Qinqiang associated with the social conditions,together with the folk creation position that Chen Yan always uphold together constitute the construction of the popular character of novels.Qinqiang is not only the carrier of ideology and culture,but also the expression form of Chinese experience under the trend of globalization.Chen Yan does not stop at the rise and fall of Qinqiang,but attempts to observe the nation and national culture as a whole based on Qinqiang and traditional Chinese opera,and uses traditional Chinese opera as cultural resources to construct an imaginary community of culture and nation in the novel and arouse national identity.Homogeneity in the culture of the era of globalization,Chen Yan constantly thinking about the modern value of the national culture,as a writer to bear the responsibility of the burden of inheriting the national culture,in the hope of excavated opera by returning to traditional and constant sense of national culture,follow this path,Chen Yan of the novel in contemporary novels,such as the national identity all have certain reference significance. |