| Yang Zhengguang is known as a new realism novelist who is keen to depict the village life in northwest in the new era of literary circles, but also an influential contemporary scriptwriter for film and television. His rustic realism novels reveal the thought of the northwest farmer's living conditions, and reflect his distinctive individual characteristics. Through an artistic expression on the northwest farmers'living plight, Yang Zhengguang conveys a deep sense of anxiety for lives in his works. Meanwhile, the use of modern artistic techniques and deep thinking of the problem of survival also make his novels have a metaphysical flavor. Yang Zhengguang accurately capture the cultural essence of northwest rural life for his careful observation and fresh local memory which unnoticed for thousand years. With years of profound experience of ways of farmers'lives, Yang Zhengguang inherits and develops rustic novels area which explored by the new literature writers in the May fourth period.Yang Zhengguang's fictions demonstrate and discuss the existential consciousness of human, which as a theme on the whole; he has existential consciousness as the creative center to express in works consciously. His novels take the northwest farmers'lives as the performance object, the expressions of farmers' national character and mentality are the places where attracting and impressing readers most. The exploration of the relationship between man and nature, man and others, men and themselves consist of people's three survival dimension in his fictions, while years of rural life experiences creating a loess plateau woodcut novel art style. The research on the existential consciousness of Yang Zhengguang's novels can reveal his unique aesthetic pursuit of literary, as well as a unique aesthetic experience to readers.In order to clarify the features and performances on existential consciousness in Yang Zhengguang's novels, the paper around four aspects to discusses: the living environment with local culture, the survival desire which instinct as a main feature, the struggles for survival with tragic narrative style, the philosophy of existence reflecting farmer's national character. Through the description of the rural living environment of the northwest farmers in his rustic novels which with distinctive regional cultures we can see that the natural environment is extreme harsh and the social environment is extreme depressed, and his works profoundly reveal the potential impact of living environment to farmers'character and psychology; the innate desires for survival mainly embody farmers'fanatical worship to the grain and their depression for sexual repression and releasing means; when the style of Yang Zhengguang's fictions analyzed, we will find violence and death is the two main narrative strategies, his rustic novels show a unique sense of tragedy by this means; the philosophy of existence condensing farmers'local features mainly embodies persevering and forbearing will of life also ignorant and sly attitude towards life in his novels.The conclusion in the text: as a rustic realism novelist who no longer consider himself as a torchbearer in the new era, Yang Zhengguang always consciously think of himself as a rational observer and an objective narrator of the world. He recorded all kinds of life forms on loess plateau faithfully, including the existence of lives and their dying process. We can feel the strong existential consciousness of northwest farmers through his fictions. Yang Zhengguang enriched the themes of existence in literature and expand the performance areas and approaches to development of the rustic novels. So the studies in Yang Zhengguang's novels have more positive and practical significances in this view dimension. |