A Study Of Alai's Novel "Epic Of Ji Village"

The main object of study is the full-length novel the Epic of Ji Village,written by the contemporary Tibetan writer Alai.The Epic of Ji Village is the second novel of Alai's.It is formerly known as the Hollow Mountain and Hollow Mountain:Ji Village Legend.Alai has changed the name to the Epic of Ji Village in the fourth edition of the novel published in January,2018.The Epic of Ji Village has put six novellas and twelve short stories together.Alai described the historical change of the Tibetan village named Ji for nearly fifty years after the establishment of People's Republic of China in seven hundred and fifty thousand words.The word Ji means seed and root in Jiarong Tibetan language,reflects the inner logical link between Ji Village and the Jiarong Tibetan village where Alai grew up.This thesis is divided into four chapters,and then have made a comprehensive and in-depth study of the Epic of Ji Village from the name,structure,the logic of the internal plot,the principles of portrayal and the writing characteristics of the rural history.The research focuses on the following aspects:Firstly,What the specific influence of Alai's conception of history,rural view and realistic creation on the form and content of the Epic of Ji Village.Secondly,compared with the rural novels at the same time,the similarities and differences in the writing of the rural history in the Epic of Ji Village and the internal motivation of the difference between the Epic of Ji Village and these novels.The first chapter discusses the naming of the Epic of Ji Village.Through the analysis of the naming connotation,the naming and modifying trend and the author's view of creation in the process of republication.The following aspects are clarified:First,the title changing in republication of the novel is to clearly convey the theme of country history in the title and realism in the rural writing.Second,the meaning of the nomenclature of the Epic of Ji Village embodies the important influence of folk literature on the creation of the Epic of Ji Village,Alai's realistic historical idea.Third,Alai wants to grasp the country fifty years of history and reality,as far as possible writing demands of various people and things written in villages,confirm two major principles of creation epic are constructing the narrative basis with the development of the times and showing the rural landscape with the characterization.Chapter Two expounds the structure of a long novel composed of Chinese and short stories the Epic of Ji JVillage from three aspects of the structure,the inner unity of the structure and the naming of the structure.By summarizing the structural features and comparing with the novels with similar structures,it is considered that the core of the structure of the epic is the inherent unity of narration,that is,the internal clues of all parts of the novel.Therefore,the proper name for the structure of the Epic of Ji Village is tandem type rather than the petal and fragment type.The inner unity structure of the Epic of Ji Village is the constant space around the Ji Village.Each one has the continuous development of timing,the recurring figure create a continuity between the different contents.By comparing the Epic of Ji Village with Miguel Street with the same structure,it is found that the Epic of Ji Village is only borrowed from the external form of the structure.There is an obvious difference in the form of organization from the novel of the same kind,which is related to the creative appeal of Alai.Although Alai uses a seemingly loose form,what he wants to achieve is an appeal to the country's macro grasp of the reality and history of the country in the fifty years.Therefore,the development and changes of the timing have become the critical element of the unity.The third chapter mainly states the writing of the village tradition and the modern experience in the Epic of Ji Village.This is the common motif of the Epic of Ji Village and the simultaneous country novels.This chapter is mainly discussed from three aspects:At first,writing country traditional of Ji Village from the perspective of text out of the Epic of ji Village.Although the main change is the rural Alai writing occurred in the process of modernization,but we can still sort out some of the original moral ethics,values,rules of conduct,etc.from the narrative of the novels.It is mainly about the common principles of interpersonal communication and the natural view of harmonious coexistence.Secondly,analyzing the ways to reflect the modern experience of the Tibetan and rural areas in the Epic of Ji Village from the following points:the legal order of the state's impact on rural old rite order,the influence of modern knowledge of cognitive way of rural people,and the influence of commodity economy on rural production and life style and the influence of commodity economy on rural production and life style.Finally,starting from the characters in the Epic of Ji Village,we sort out their different coping styles in the process of rural modernization,and examine how to describe the modernization process in the Epic of Ji Village and how it affects the people in the countryside.In this chapter,using some theories and concepts in sociology to help examine the influence of the village tradition and the modernization process on the traditional Ji Village society.Chapter four summarizes the main features of the book writing in the Epic of Ji Village from a macro perspective.At the same time in rural novels,the author take retreat attitude,grasp the reality of the law,the lack of a clear attitude than not try realistic criticism.In the Epic of Ji Village,Alai has clearly attempt to grasp the fifty-year history and reality of the Tibetan village.He used the expression of the contemporary era discourse in the contemporary era as a narrative basis to combine the whole framework of the novel,showing the pursuit of the integrity of history.The characterization in the novel also focuses on the interaction between the pulse of the times and the fate of the individual;how time affects people and people how to reflect the times.It is not like the Ruined City and Qin Opera equivalent period of rural novels,in the psychology of the characters and accidental factors,the details of everyday life to build a character in relation to rural narrative history only become a blurred background every day.Write specific books in the Epic of Ji Village,Alai showed of epic and the pursuit of allegory writing tendency.The epic refers to folk literature as type of epic,rather than some of the epic novels to represent a masterpiece.The Allegorization refers to the difference in the real-life scenes depict faithfully,with allegory,symbolism and allegory properties reflect the reality of the way.The pursuit of epic written by the rural history books in the Epic of Ji Village reflects the way of writing that is close to the epic characteristics in the novel,and maintains the inner cohesion of the village through the narration of the origin of the village and the expression of the ancestral identity.The trend of Allegorization is embodied in the symbolization and symbolization of some characters in the novel,as well as the symbolic meaning of the grand narrative scene that displays specific contradictions and conflicts.This Allegorization tendency is Alai realism performance,he grasped the means of history and reality beyond his personal experience.In general,the Epic of Ji Village is a contemporary Tibetan writer,Alai,who wrote a masterpiece in the history of the Tibetan village in the new century.It not only raises important content to the writing of the history of the minority country,but also shows the characteristics that are different from the other rural novels in the same period.In the Epic of Ji Village,the writing of the history in the Tibetan village with fifty-years is the way for minority writers to realize the expression of their own cultural identity through the writing of the history of the nation.The form building full-length novel with joining novelette and short story together,also shows a form of innovation and breakthrough in the creation of rural novels in China.