Lao She's Criticism Of The National Character, From The Vision Of Folk Culture

The criticism of national character's problems which derive from Enlightenment during late QingDynasty have evoluted an enssential academic topic in the May 4th Neo-cultural Movement. It has close relations with the 20th century's modernization in Chinese society, and promotes the foundation of critical realism in the period of May 4th,meanwhile it also becomes the main content to describe the reality, show the meanings of the enlightenment for the authorsLuxun and Lao She got the most impressived and discussions on the topic of national character's among all of the authors in the May 4th period. Luxun who is the representative of the Radical West, pay a great attention to the criticism of the Chinese traditional culture, while Lao She who is a temperate democracy, shows more contradictoriness and diversification in his National Character's criticism. Luxun is a characteristic anthor in the May 4th literary world, he has the the background of bannermen of Qing Dynasty,background of traditional culture of regal capital,his complicated culture backgrounds create him originality in his literature field.it is feasible to do the research of the Lao She works using the folk-customs theories through choosing the research objects with deep Beijing Style。There are some theories coming out by some of the scholars who show interests on this problem, however,they neglect the descriptions of the fock-customs and the criticism of the national characterThis article expounds from the culture of the Courtyard Dwellings, Etiquette, language use, belief and Restrictions, as well as Social Intercourse, analyzes the relations of Beijing citizens and psychological feature. Closed courtyard dwellings and convenient alleys create Beijing citizens a close-narrowed, careless characters. Overelaborated etiquette and too much attentions reflect the pressures and persecution of hierarchy to the lower stage citizens,especially to the females. The humorous language and the ballad-singing arts development show the release of the psychological pressures and the attitude in hard life under the backward culture environment. The conflict between Chinese beliefed religions and foreign religions shows the national citizen's attitude to seek Moderationm, and the helpless and scare by the strong power, Lao She's descriptions to the scene of the teahouse pictured a lively literary images and complete the review to the national culture and national tradition,complete the criticisms and reflection to the National Character...