The Reflection About Liu E & The Travels Of Lao Can

Liu E and his only novel the travels of Lao Can, always cause many dispute of scholar. This paper has scanned some phenomenon of culture in the Travels of Lao Can through official standard, object standard, experience standard, feminism standard, and so on. Liu E had some characters of transition period. Though Liu E had got to some ideology and science & technology, wanted to develop industry so as to save the country, he was still a feudal intellect. Liu E embraced Tai Gu School. It claimed managing state affairs as its guide line. The education environment that he accepts makes the forfeiture of his entity become inevitable. He ideal representative of personality (Lao Can) indicate his own position in the Travels of Lao Can: Ruler (driver) can lead China move towards bright future, those who caused national crisis were government official in the lower floor (sailor). Liu E's restriction of thought made Lao Can to become the persons who reveal several of "honest and upright official" .Liu E made suffering consciousness of " managing state affairs " alien because of " power ". Zhang Gongbao, Yu Xian and Gang Bi were just the clear proof of view: more senior government officials, more harm. Liu E's narcissism makes him describe Lao Can as one without worldly desires personage of gentleman type of fame and gain. The story on the peach blossom mountain in the Travels of Lao Can is Liu E's future imagination, but Chinese traditional " experience standard view" draw sight of Liu E to Three Dynasty's ideal society still, and made Liu E draw the mountain of the peach blossom as " society of Da Tong " as " the Peach Garden " type finally. Liu E regarded himself as distinguished and admirable in his life, wife in groups concubine, but Lao Can was a nearly gentleman of woman's charm in works. This is still reflection of Liu E's narcissism. But Liu E demonstrated pity in women through Lao Can in the Travels of Lao Can, portraying several different women's image. In the society at that time, it made certain progress in the meaning. But Liu E's feminism view still exist problems: men are women's rescue person; ideal women are all manlike women. In a word, research about Liu E and the Travels of Lao Can in culture is still not ended.