Folk Writing: Another Furthering

Folk writing is an important branch in contemporary Chinese poetry, which has drawn much attention of Chinese poets and critics since the Panfeng Conference. Based on past achievement, this thesis tries to take folk writing as an self-dependent system for a research, to review its development process, aesthetic features, poetic experiment, and historical significance.Taking Panfeng Conference as a beginning, this thesis goes back to Tamen and Feifei schools in 1980s, unkown folk writing in 1990s, and its returning back and breaking up around 2000, which helps us get a clear picture of folk writing's past, now and future.Folk writing enjoys its own characteristics. It centers on common people and common life stories with a common viewpoint, and shows a poetic beauty of everyday life at the same moment. With simple images, folk language, meaningful rhetorics, narrative style, hyperbole and irony, folk writing subverts sublimeness and tradition, and reveals a real and poetic life secene.Folk writing has made a contribution to contemporary Chinese poetry in the following aspects. Folk writing has a sharp eye on everyday life, which enlarge the themes of Chinese poetry. Compared with intellectual writing, folk writing empathizes much on feelings, emotion and experience, and foregrounds the immediateness and freshness of life. Folk writing probes into the unconscious field and reveals another often-neglected wolrd. Borrowing other stylistics, folk writing continues creating new forms and enriching poetic expressions.All in all, folk writing is a kind of further development in contemporary Chinese poetry which has created a new way for Chinese contemporary poetry in both themes and techniques, and indicated another kind of possibility.