To Expound Shi Tiesheng' Works Philosophically About "the Meaning Of Life"

Shi Tiesheng is considered to be one of the most representative writers who emphasize on thought in Chinese contemporary literature circle. He suffers from deformity, but he never stop writing. He has producted so many works on profound life experiece from the beginning of 1980s when he stepped into literary world. Looking at all of his works, it is easy to find that mostly they are words of "life consciousness" and an unexhausted exploration of "the meaning of life". From the philosophic point of view , he use his literary wise to think about the eternal ultimate issue, death, and to discover the meaning of life . In Shi Tiesheng's works there are so many disabled persons and they have composed a special theme of deformity which is related to his own life. According to the process of his production, his works can be devided into two parts, earlier stage works with deformity theme and later stage works with deformity theme. Most of his earlier works reflected his care about reality, so they are serious, oppressive, and painful. He complained silently about the unfairness of fate, and tried to make it up with the reality, so the meaning behind the deformity was not cared. The thought just rested on the surface of reality. But the style of his later stage works tended towards profundity, serenity and peace, and his complaining attitude was also changed into a tolerate one. His thought was profounder, developed from the real deformity to its broad sense, the limit of life. Just because Mr. Shi was disabled, he pays so much attention on fate and get a special attitude towards fate. In his view, fate is unpredictable and uncontrollable, and we can only correct our attitudes to know it, to accept the reality,and to realize our value during the process of strugglingwith reality, never running into the wrong path of nihilism. What supports us to struggle with fate? It is the special religious spirit of owned by human beings. In Shi Tiesheng's works the religious spirit is reflected by the following aspects, the honest confession, the awareness and awe of nature, the comprehension and care of the suffering, the feeling of sorrowful sympathy. The essential of religious spirit is the ultimate idealism, and it is an extensive sense of humanism.