On The Plant Writing In Li Peifu ’s Novels

Plant image and plant writing have a long tradition and artistic consciousness in Chinese literature,far as the pre-Qin period has the " Book of Songs " vegetation tradition,nearly as contemporary Mo Yan ’s red sorghum world,Tie Ning ’s cotton field and so on.As a contemporary novelist Li Peifu,who is the mainstay of the’ Henan Army of Literature ’,a prominent feature of his creation is the plant writing in his works.Li Peifu has been focusing his creation on the central plains of Henan and the real life of plain people,trying to explore the relationship between soil-plant-people.He regards plants as human beings to observe and write,and constructs a plant world of his own with unique vision and vivid brushwork.It not only shows the regional characteristics of literature in the central plains of Henan,but also connects with the character image shaping and theme expression of the novel,giving the novel narrative a strange ’ plant logic ’ text color.This paper focuses on the plant writing in Li Peifu ’s novels,mainly examines the background of his plant writing,the theme of plant writing,and the artistic features and styles formed by plant writing,and explores the literary aesthetic value of his plant writing.This paper first analyzes the background and causes of plant writing in Li Peifu ’s novels,and identifies the direct influence of external environment on plant writing in Li Peifu ’s novels.The natural conditions of the central plains of Henan Province are the natural hotbeds for breeding plants,providing a superior site environment for the growth of a large number of plants.Li Peifu ’s life experience in the village of his childhood and his participation in the " going to the countryside " movement in his youth,he worked with farmers every day and accumulated rich life experience in close contact with plants.As far as the writer’s personal growth experience is concerned,it can also show the cultural psychological role of plant preference in his creation.In a word,the external environment and personal growth experience directly affect Li Peifu ’s writing style and characteristics,which is the direct driving force of plant writing in his novel creation.The second chapter of this paper is devoted to exploring and explaining the theme of plant writing in Li Peifu ’s novels.A more convenient way is to select the typical plant images in the novel for interpretation.The ’ grass ’ and ’ tree’ in Li Peifu ’s works can be regarded as the carrier of human destiny,and the plant image of the integration and coexistence of human and plant.Many plant images of the Central Plains also contain the desire and lust of the characters themselves,which is an expression of human desire and an export.Among them,Li Peifu likes to use ’ flowers ’ to express the writer ’s praise and yearning for a beautiful and noble ideal personality.He is also good at describing the plant ’ food ’ culture of plain people.These constitute Li Peifu ’s unique metaphorical expression of the Central Plains culture.The third chapter focuses on the artistic characteristics of the text brought by the plant writing in Li Peifu ’s novels.The plant writing in Li Peifu ’s novels not only endows a kind of plant narrative originality,but also highlights the distinct regional literature color.At the same time,it also reflects the rare meticulous humanistic care,and expresses the writer ’s deep cognition and thinking on the relationship between man and land,man and plant.Finally,this paper also tries to explore the value of plant writing in Li Peifu ’s novels.Indeed,Li Peifu ’s plant writing is not only an inheritance and development of ecological theory,but also can fully demonstrate the author ’s thinking on the central plains of Henan from the natural environment ecology to the spiritual ecology of people.Li Peifu presents the quiet beauty of the daily village with the combination of reality and illusion,and also examines and criticizes the national character with a plain tone and a serious attitude.