On The Local Writing Of Li Rui’s Novels

In contemporary Chinese literature,Li Rui’s novels highlight a unique artistic charm.As a writer with a deep affection for the local area,he is based on the local area and truly writes about the "local China" that he observes and understands.Li Rui has built a local world full of changes in his long creative years.At the end of the 80 s,Li Rui started from the material and spiritual difficulties of the peasants in Lüliangshan and created a poor and ignorant "primitive" rural world in "Thick Soil";In the 90 s,in works such as "Old Site","Windless Tree" and "Cloudless Miles",the collision between "revolution" and "vernacular" became a new vernacular landscape;After the advent of the new century,the countryside lost its former calm under the pressure of the "modernization" process and gradually turned into a wasteland.Li Rui’s local world has a strong regional character.The mountains and barren loess are the unique geographical features of Shanxi,and the enclosed space generated in this natural environment also deeply imprisons the survival thinking of farmers.Local unique wedding and funeral customs,worship ceremonies,opera and folk songs and other cultural customs contain the simple and heavy spiritual temperament of farmers.In addition,the vivid and vivid dialect vocabulary also reflects the straightforward and straightforward folk nature of Shanxi farmers.Li Rui’s vernacular novels contain multiple writing gestures.First,rejecting the idyllic imagination of the countryside,Li Rui reveals the rough face of the countryside through the dialogue between the young people and the peasants,and contrasts the idyllic countryside with the hideous rural reality in the way of "hypertext collage",revealing that the countryside is not a poetic space.The second is the de-sacralization of the revolution,the revolutionary’s misplaced understanding of self-identity,the revolutionary’s condescending enlightenment posture,and the vigorous vitality of the local people are all invisibly dissolving the sanctity and legitimacy of the revolution.The third is to move towards "allegorization",Li Rui’s "villages" are universal,they are a microcosm of the Chinese countryside;The symbolic characters and meaningful endings are also full of allegorical overtones,and they speak of an allegory about "where the local civilization is going".As an ideological writer,Li Rui has always adhered to himself and maintained the independence and particularity of his creation.His literary stance,life pathos,and reflections on enlightenment are all based on the countryside and on the peasantry.First of all,among the many literary trends since the new period,Li Rui writes his unforgettable experience with the gesture of "refusing to sing",paying attention to the survival of people.Secondly,Li Rui’s local novels reveal a sense of pathos,which stems from rural peasants,who live in unnoticed suffering,and the beautiful female characters being swallowed by the countryside lead Li Rui’s compassion to a deeper place.Third,upholding the morality and responsibility of modern intellectuals,Li Rui tried his best to avoid the expression of traditional literati in the face of the countryside,and he handed over the right to speak to the peasants,allowing them to change from "narrated" to "narrated";At the same time,Zhang Zhongyin’s image of a tragic enlightener also reflects Li Rui’s reflection on enlightenment.