The Difficulties Of Life And Movement

As a female author of keen sense, Ding Ling has gone through and effected by the trends of "the May 4th" cultural thought. Her life is full of predicaments, contrary to reason. Because the historical difficulties, which are projected into her inner world, are hard to transverse, her character and the performance of her cultural psychology are very complex. The study of her special character and psychology can provide us a chance to learn that time comprehensively, and provide us some reference resources for a deep thought of the "people in society" and that of the later development the social "individual person".This paper will combine the study of Ding Ling and that of her text creation, which will be carried out systematically out and comparatively under the historical background of Chinese culture, politics and revolution, in order to make a comprehensive study of her different roles, i.e. As a person (woman, lover, wife, mother), as an author, and as a revolutionist. And that will unfold the source exploration of her special character, cultural psychology and her deep secret psychological world. The paper will center on her early days texts (approximately the period before and after Yan'an Rectification). According to the different writing psychology presented in her various texts in different periods, we can divide her early days textual creation into more or less three periods.1. The emotional experience of an idealist's period pursuing, frustration and reflection in the early loving period.During this period concentrate on the study of the different roles of male and female in the course of their emotional interaction. Ding didn't draw a pervasive conclusion to the roles of the male and female in their emotional interaction, but her exploration to the significance of living did unfold the whole emotional process of an idealist's pursuing, frustration and reflection in the early loving period.2. Ding's hesitation, anxiety, excitement, sufferings and variation in thetransactional period of writer's writingIn this period, Ding's texts are full of mixed and paradoxical feelings: in the beginning, Ding was eager to take part in revolutionary activities, while after she was involved in the circle, Ding experienced a complex psychological variation from excitement, anxiety, sufferings to transformation. Ding's texts in this period are exemplified as two different tone: on one hand, Ding was willing to follow the provoking of proletariat's literature and the so called spiritual contribution as the political slang said, "the aim to save our nation from extinction is above everything." However, all the provoking was put forward by male and would center on male's practice. On the other hand, Ding's own emotion was depressed by environment. As a result, she gave out a kind of resistant expression, which made the narrator take a critical attitude towards the environment motivated by a concrete ideology of cultural context. This reflected the conflicts and paradox in Ding's works after Ding's thought entered a transitional period of so called "enlightenment and salvage".3. The solitude mood during the imprisonment in Nanjing and the consciousness of feminism in liberated zone.Ding ling was still in a sad mood after she arrived in Yan'an. Because at that time, the concepts of liberty and democracy were not appreciated there and such concepts like individualism and personal dignity are also not the mainstream thought. Under such circumstance, the consciousness of selfhood of individuals completely died out. During this period of time, the subject of resistance towards the oppressions of individualism was implicitly manifested in Dingling's writings. Such expressions were conveyed either explicitly or implicitly in her texts which reflected her strong consciousness of feminism in Yan'an.