On The "Romance Of The Earth" In Zhang Wei 's Novels

Zhang Wei is one of the most influential writers, and he is known as the "land of night watchman," "Son of the Land." Zhang Wei was walking on the earth, and finished millions of words of literary masterpiece in the past thirty years, which was extremely rare in contemporary literature. He was born in Shandong which is the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, and he insisted on the writer’s mission and responsibility. From his debut "wooden cart" in 1973 to the "You’re on the plateau" series that received Maodun Literary Award recently, Zhang Wei never stops working, and sticks to his "pure literature" writing philosophy all the time. He always adheres to the writing positions that is far from desire and formalization, using his words to remind people of watching this intricate world. But look at the creation of Zhang Wei’s fictions, the themes of his novels reveal the author’s stick of "Earth feelings" all the time.Although his novels were different in different phases, he still had the consistent theme, that was “ the feelings of the land”. Zhang Wei’s creation was mainly about Idyllic Pastorals at first and praised the "Land". In the second phase, the Praise of “land’’ turned to reality of history, criticism and reflection of human nature. In the third phase, the author was very angry and became calm. His creation was a way to explore the human self-help and self-redemption, which was into the wilderness and returned to self-heating and the land. This stage also expressed Zhang Wei’s feelings of the land. The fourth phase regarded "You’re on the plateau" as the representation. This magnificent works can be described as a summary of the Zhang Wei’s masterpiece and reflected the mature of Zhang Wei’s feelings of the land. “ The feelings of the land” was not only the main line of his works but also the fulcrum. This thesis is to study the novels in the angle of “ The feelings of the land”This thesis is divided into five parts. The introduction describes the origin, the history and current status of the research topics. The first part of the thesis describes definition of “ The feelings of the land”, which was defined in three levels: the concept of "land", the concept of “ The feelings of the land”, and concept of Zhang Wei’s“ The feelings of the land”. The second part analyzes and summaries Zhang Wei’s novels, which sums up the following four stages: the natural beauty of the earth’s description: "Lo River" series; thinking wrath of the land: "The Old Ship" realm; the land returning: "wild" state; the earth conclusion: "plateau" realm. Part three is a text rendering of his “ The feelings of the land”, which mainly discusses from the following aspects: poetic "land Imagery" shape; "urban dichotomies’ writing philosophy; reconstruction of intellectual’s “ The feelings of the land” under the opposition of urban and rural. Part five describes the causes of Zhang Wei novels, and explores childhood memories, multicultural, other writers, and the influence of the world. The conclusion is a summary of Zhang Wei’s novels, and evaluates his novels’ significance and limitations objectively at the same time.