The Narrative Characteristics Of "the Red Legend" And Its Current Fate

The phenomenon deserves deep thinking that"the Red Legend"lasted only transiently in the literary world for 17 years. Those revolutionary narrations, which were deeply loved and very popular of that time, become out of traces today when"popularization of literature"is claimed to be one of the writing destinations."The Red Legend"emerged in the liberated areas in the 1940's, and reached it climax in the 1950's, when a large amount of influential works were created. However, in the 1960's it began to decline gradually until lost its trace. It is regarded that the flow and ebb of"the Red Legend"are closely concerned with its own narrative framework."The Red Narration"is a kind of narrative mode that is deeply rooted in the Chinese traditional narrative ideas of novels. In the course of narrating the"revolutionary"ideology, it is welcomed by readers because of its customary national pattern and aesthetic thinking mode familiar to Chinese readers. In the meanwhile, its flaws in the absence of some of the narrative ways and some of its own weakness are gradually exposed.Strictly speaking, any personalized literary works cannot avoid the participation of one's personal narrative motive, and it is the same case with those revolutionary narrations, even though they are claimed to be out of sheer"revolutionary motive". The authors of"the Red Legend"expressed their revolutionary purpose in literary creation to the public mostly by means of additional narrative texts. However, when contrasting the relative texts, we may find the reality is not as simple as what the authors claimed in their"public contracts". The present essay takes the typical narration"Snow-covered Plain Within the Forest"as a key case to disclose the reality of the participation of personal motives in narrating the theme of revolution and the transferred rewriting of the theme of revolution through a contrastive interpretation of the narrative text and the various"public contracts"put forward by the author, Qu Bo at the time when the work was created. Of course the above mentioned phenomenon of the participation of personal narrative motive is not...