The Intermingling Of Tradition And Modern

The art of liberated areas in the 1940s presented a confliction and intertwinement between an active reformational cultural value of realism and the traditional conservatism which was inert and inactive. The traditional Chinese ethics once experienced a glorious period but after that, the reformation progressed slowly. In the stage of history when "tradition" and "modern" came into collision, the traditional Chinese ethics still look forward to being rebuilt. Under the influence of modern western thoughts, the traditional ethics was shocked deeply than ever before. The enlighted thought was absorbed by the early Marxists and Communists, and thus were filled in the blank of social culture and moral value after the feudal ideology and culture was discarded by history. As one of the most inactive cultural factors, the moral and ethical tradition, whose conversion is still relatively slow and whose changes was particularly difficult, even under strong pressure pushed by external forces, and maintains people's daily life. The study of ethics is to explore the morality, human relationships, order, and the issue of right and wrong. For literature, the ethics is not only a writer's conformation to integrity and internalized sense of morality, but also a writer's concern about his country and his people. This paper argues that, as a form of moral and ethical standard concepts in the 1940s, it has a profound effect on the development of the literature in liberated areas. The transformation of Chinese society in the twentieth century and the characters of traditional culture such as deeply rooted in nature, inheritance, and particularity bring to this effect.This paper concerns about the relations between the reformation of ethics and the creation of novels in the liberated areas in the process of social transformation in the 1940s, and explores the hidden connection between internal and external literature factors. The concentration of this paper is to reveal moral and ethical concepts in the text, the difficult choice between individuals and collective interests in that age, the public value system and the political interference behind the class struggle. On the basis of academic achievements that we have gained, this article explores the transformation about morality and ethics in a modern perspective. In research methods, the paper partly adopts the feminist criticism, text analysis and cultural studies theory. It focuses more on modern ethics rather than traditional Confucian ethical values. Above all, this paper tries to achieve the goal, which is to provide some valuable suggestions for the modernization of Chinese ethics.