Li Huiwen Short Stories

Huiwen Li, the Manchu writer, is one of the representatives on the literature field on the west of Liaoning province. In his life, he works hard on the novels of the countryside. His novels show us the development of contemporary countryside on the west of Liaoning province and the change of peasants lives. His works are filled with fashionable feeling and countryside taste.The tendencies of Huiwen Li's works can be two sides, writing countryside and intervening lives. Being born and living in countryside has given him special and deep feeling on peasants and countryside. It creates his novel under his consciousness and gets him a unique advantage on his works. The sensitivity to the countryside lives makes him get many valuable materials for his writing. At that time, the literature field emphasizes countryside material so that is one of reason why Huiwen Li chooses countryside material. But he coordinates with reality by "exposition". He promulgates contradictories and conflictions. He writes many "questionnaire novels" which intervene the lives on the good side.Huiwen Li's middle-short novel has two periods, before and after Great Cultural Revolution. Before the Revolution, his works' subjects are very practical which show advanced and backwardness by concreteproblems of countryside works to propaganda and educate. Huiwen Li puts the customs, the ethic relationships, natural views, etc. into his works to make his novel closer to real countryside lives. The novel after the Revolution has three parts basically, relating the pain from the Revolution, keeping on promulgating the problems in the countryside society and paying more attention to the mental feeling of the peasants. His life space in his works becomes wider. He pays more attention to peasants' moral view and values and to some extend, it deepens his works.Popularity and localization are what Huiwen Li pursuit. His long-short novels respect peasants taste not only on structure, character molds but also languages choosing. His stories have a good order and a wonderful beginning and ending. He uses clues to begin his plots and develops lives' capacity actively. He uses the traditional way, outline drawing to mold his characters and characteristic languages, activities and details to activate the characters. At the same time, in order to make the characters bright, he contrasts those characters that have different thoughts and dispositions. In language using, Huiwen Li absorbs a number of dialect of the west of Liaoning province. In his works there is richness of the west culture of Liaoning and the idiom that he uses shows many custom of the west of Liaoning. Since Huiwen Li pursuits the simple and fining languages hardly, he can get his works vivid whatever portraying characters or describing sceneries.