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Folklore Writing And Local World Construction Of Henan Novels Since The New Period

Posted on:2022-08-22Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1485306722970489Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In Henan novels in the new era,the folk custom of the Central Plains has been endowed with the connotation of the times.They have become an important means to promote the development of the story,show the fate of the character and strengthen the regional cultural color.At the same time,they also go deep into the interior of the novel,vividly express the ideas and cultural psychology of the Central Plains people,and become an important element to show the rural life of Henan,the spirit of regional culture and the change of the times,so that readers can understand the historical evolution of the unique regional customs and the spirit of the Central Plains people.From the perspective of folk writing,the local world in Henan novels in the new era can examine the unique and complex rural style of Henan rural modernization since the contemporary era,especially after the new era.The whole thesis is divided into five chapters.The preamble overview the new era of Henan fiction and literary folklore research history and current situation,research ideas and research methods,the core concept of the paper and the need to explain the problem on the whole.The first chapter focuses on the causes and characteristics of Henan novel folk writing in the new period.The local natural environment,cultural landscape and related political and economic systems in Henan have created a unique regional folk environment,providing in-depth background support for the folk writing of Henan novels in the new era.Henan ' s rich folk environment and folk accumulation in life have spawned Henan writers ' unique feelings for folk customs in the new era.They are combined with writers ' insistence on rural narrative,and become the possibility and conscious motivation of folk writing in novels.Based on the differences of writers ' life experience and creative will,Henan writers in the new period show a multi-folk aesthetic attitude of rational criticism,mild irony and nostalgia.Due to the need of special ideological and spiritual expression,some Henan writers try to construct some folk customs that are not real in real life and combine with the text content of the novel,so as to enhance the artistic effect of the novel and express personal thoughts and feelings,aesthetic ideals or will.In the new era,Henan writers are not a whole.Different small regional writers rely on their own cultural areas,and create a diversified folk landscape with different rural customs and patterns in each region as the source.The folk writing of Henan writers is also closely related to the development of the times.From the founding of New China to the new century,each stage presents new features different from those before.The second chapter discusses the Henan local landscape constructed by Henan writers based on folk writing.The reform and opening up and modernization construction in the new period have brought unprecedented development and vitality to the villages in Central China,but the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization has also brought many negative effects to the villages.Folk culture is stable and also changes with the development of the times.In the new era,Henan novels take the unique rural customs in the Central Plains as the starting point to observe the development and changes of rural social ecology in Henan in the post-reform era.Through the disappearance of folk customs,the declining rural ecological landscape in Henan is displayed.The variation of folk customs reflects the power landscape in Henan rural areas.The weakening of folk customs reflects the ethical fission landscape in Henan rural areas,which also the philosophical reflection on modernization.The third chapter discusses the farmers' life and destiny displayed by Henan writers through folk custom writing.In the new era,Henan writers have concentrated on the rich and diverse folk customs in Henan,which has also become the manifestation and epitome of the original living conditions of farmers in the Central Plains.In Henan novels,the addition of rural folk plots not only shows the unique outlook of life in the central plains,but also shows the behavior or cultural psychology of farmers in the central plains.The writer uses the marriage and funeral customs with the color of the central plains to highlight the misfortune and bleakness of the farmers ' situation,and entrusts with deep compassion for the fate of farmers under heavy negative pressure.The folk belief in Henan area is rich.The description of the folk belief in the Central Plains written by contemporary Henan writers profoundly reflects the spiritual beliefs and ideas centered on the unity of heaven and man and the spirit of all things in the hinterland of Henan.As an important part of the novel narration,they are an important means for Henan writers to render local color and create rural mysterious cultural atmosphere.At the same time,they also show the cognitive level and spiritual state of the peasants in the Central Plains.The fourth chapter discusses the local meaning of Henan presented by Henan writers in folk discourse.Henan writers show the rural world of Henan through the flexible use of the dialect and rhetoric of the Central Plains,which brings a different aesthetic significance to the novel.The characteristics of dialect imitation and audio-visual transmission enable readers to distinguish their identity and personality from the language of various characters,so that the characters are more vivid and vivid.Figures of speech such as metaphor,irony,pun,exaggeration and synaesthesia make the plot and characters more vivid and personalized in the dialect context.The folk songs and folk ballads in the creation of Henan writers in the new period are important means to highlight the regional cultural atmosphere and characteristics of Henan,and to express the feelings and spirit of Henan people.They have inherent aesthetic value and profound ideological connotation.Henan myths and legends are rich.The folk myths and legends in Zhou Daxin's novels are lively,colorful,and have distinctive characteristics of the times and places.The fifth chapter discusses the artistic function of Henan novel folk writing in the new period.Folklore is not only the accumulation of history,but also the existence of reality.This feature of both history and reality makes it an important cultural medium connecting history and reality,tradition and modernity.In Henan novels,folk writing provides realistic support for writers ' regional and personalized writing.Rich folk writing not only shows the unique humanistic style of the region,but also takes care of people ' s life from the height of history and culture.It shows the profound changes of rural society under the changes of history and times,and makes the works obtain profound historical and cultural implications and contemporary significance.As a long-term accumulation of lifestyle and behavior habits in specific areas,regional customs reflect the distinctive personality traits and cultural psychology of the region,and thus have obvious super-class and super-era characteristics.Henan writers added folk description to their creations,so that the novel not only expressed political themes,but also wrote and expressed human feelings to a certain extent,which played a certain role in dispelling the political tendency of the novel.The writing of rural folklore in Henan provides realistic support for Henan writers to carry out local construction and artistic imagination,performs the life of the people in the Central Plains,reveals the local dilemma in the process of modernization,and contains writers' reflection on modernity.
Keywords/Search Tags:Folklore writing, Novels of henan, Vernacular landscape, Folk discourse, Function of Folklore Writing
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