"patricide" And Cutting Off Its Roots And Cultural Criticism

Clan standard is the characteristic of Chinese traditional country. The symbolic implication of "Idea of Co-construction of Home and Country" is the main character of clan culture, which makes the clan writing become an unfailing literary motif. Influenced by the New Culture Movement and excellent fictions both at home and abroad, from the 1930's to the 1940's, a large number of clan novels emerged in China, which form another peak after "Dream of Red Mansions". Family, by Ba Jin, firstly depicts the overall images of a feudal clan in the new literary history, systematically depicts the changing traits from prosperity to decline of an old upper-class family. Its new cultural standard and advanced and profound thinking make it become the first modern clan novel. Family initiates the modern fiction model, portrays three kinds of people in the clan culture-its assertors, victims and rebels, reveals the darkness and decay of the feudal clan and feudalism, and calls on the aspiring youths to protest feudalism. It also radically deconstructs feudal clan and culture, and sets up the cultural critical banner on the viewpoint of "clan". The clan fictions after it are influenced by Family. A great number of modern writers carry on its cultural critical theme and expose the inevitable doom of feudalism. Because of the changing of main Zeitgeist and the different circumstances the writers live, the latter modern clan writers criticize the backwardness of clan culture as well as attach to its traditional virtues. They begin to revaluate the values and excellent meanings of traditional culture, devote themselves to deconstructing the old national culture and reconstructing the new one.