On Jia Pingwa's Complex

Jia Pingwa is a widely concerned,regional writer of contemporary era.As an intellectual who spent his childhood in the countryside,the deep-rooted country complex and concern for his hometown in his heart is not only a spiritual thread in his writing but also a key to the understanding of his novels.Country Literature is the literary duality between the city representing modern culture and the countryside representing traditional literature.Born and brought up in the countryside,he self-consciously focuses on his hometown and cares about his country fellow's life and future anytime and anywhere.Several forms of country complex are shown in his novels:One is the watching of the countryside through the praise of the beautiful landscape and hardworking and unpretending country fellow, through the exposure of the bad living habits of the farmers and through the singing of the great changes in the countryside.The other is the deep concern for the country society amid the impact of modern civilization.He achieves this by portraying the disadvantages of the cities and the morbid life of urban citizens and the dual-contradiction between cities and countryside.The country complex id derived from the conscience,responsibility,recollections of his childhood and the inferiority complex at innermost heart.What is more important is that he tries to begin his cultural "Looking for Root" journey by his excavation of folk culture of Shanzhou.Jia Pingwa is an important writer in the area of contemporary Chinese culture. Jia Pingwa fulfills the conscience and responsibility of traditional writer through his revelatory view of novels and unwearied writing.He reveals the inevitable trend from traditional civilization to modernization and the deformed and beautiful,gratified and painful psychological fission process of national spirit culture.He contributes to the development of modern Chinese using his modesty language and dialect narration. With the accelerated process of integration of urban and rural areas,he finishes the style of country-complex writing.