The Cultural Interpretation Of Plait Image In Lu Xun's Cry Out

In the field of the study on Lu Xun, the exploration embodied in plait image in Lu Xun'snovel Cry Out is a topic to be done. It is helpful to reveal the richness and profundity of LuXun's novels' content and thought, and useful to find out the hided cultural interpretation andaesthetic value interpreted by the common folklore and sociology.Enlightened from Qian Liqun's Exploration of Soul and taking the research path andmethods on interpreting Lu Xun's novels' cultural image created by Wang Yao, Qian Liqunand Yang Yi as theoretical basis, the thesis sorted out and compared Lu Xun's text's plaitimage in both quality and quantity from the viewpoint of modern literature, and madesystematic and deep exploration and interpretation on plait image, which is "typicalphenomenon" in Cry Out, to have a restricted view on the rich interpretation and aestheticvalue embodied in plait image.Taking plait images in Lu Xun's text as background, the thesis deeply observed andstudied the folk custom origin, cultural pedigree and cultured and restrained text from thepoint of culture, and attempted to raise the viewpoint taking plait image as cultural image'sexploration. On the basis of sorting out and comparing modern text concerning plait image, itcreated a phenomenon that plait image has both dominant and recessive texts, and exploredplait image's uniqueness and value in Lu Xun's literatural narration. On this basis, the thesisculturally decoded the surface and deep levels structure of plait image's cultural interpretation,and analyzed three major cultural phenomena and several main cultural landscapes and quite afew compicated cultural patterns of the surface structure;and deeply studied national culturepsychology, modern cultural transformation and text value argument in deep structure;criticized abnormal aesthetic judgment of body violence and abnormal state appreciation. Onthe basis of quite a few modern writers' cutting plait and writing plait texts, the thesisillustrates the causes, value pursuit and enlightenment on constructing modern culture toconstruct plait image.Through the above observation and illustration, the thesis argued that the plait image inLu Xun's writings is cultural symbols of feudal autocratic rule and its thought, culturalgeneralization of body and nation, cultural image resisting enslavement, cultural phenomenachanging national shortcomings, perfecting modern human dignity, cultural recalling full ofarguments, cultural carrier of narrative aesthetic pursuit and cultural mirror image of moderncivilization construction.