Historical Folk Imagination

Moyan is an important writer of Chinese contemporary literature. Asthe new historical novel sponsor and the representative, he holds theunique status in the new historical novel camp. This article takes Moyan'snew historical novels as the object of study. Based on the theorists'research results of Moyan's creation, the article discusses thecharacteristics of the new historical novel creation from the folk angle.The article also attempts to mouse out the never- failing fountainhead andthe trend of his works as well as enrich and deepen the research ofMoyan's novel creation. Besides, the writer wants to take this as a case todeepen the understanding of his new historical novel essentialconnotation.Through the research, we discover that the novelty of his newhistorical novel mainly manifests in changes of the mainstream shape ofthe history based in the folk imagination of history, thus making thehistory folklike. Obviously, the imaginary tendency and historical folkare syncretized tightly, and the historical folk imagination is extremelyobvious. It brims the color of thick individuation and the main body aswell as the folk return to original state, which is a new history of the field.In Moyan's new historical novel, violence and sex may existunscrupulously, and the life force is making widely known; and theunimportant persons who are driven to the edge of the mainstream shapedhistory step onto the historical arena performance and become the heroes;The sobriety and sublimity of history is displaced by teases with thehistorical prospect; Certainly, as an intellectual, Moyan emphasizes"writing for common people", meanwhile, he doesn't forget to hide theapproval of invariable national spirit in his novels. With every effort ofconstructing this kind of new history, he found the buried treasure in thefolk. He selected the folk words method to carefully examine the nationalsurvival condition and to portray the character image. He chose the folklegendary writing style and the color variegated narrative technique aswell as the folk language resources to narrate the history and imaginehistory. This kind of history is the folk history, also is in Moyan's mind.Moyan's choice and the utilization imagination history method causes thewriting to present the folk brand mark deeply, also deepen the workimplication itself.The success of his new historical novels benefits from the folk. Andsubstantial achievement of literature creations also benefits from the folk.