Discourse Upon "Hometown" Image Of The Beijing School Novels

The Beijing School is a unique literary genre in the1930s, represented by ZhouZuoren, Fei Ming, Shen Congwen, Li Jianwu and Zhu Guangqian. The reason why it iscalled the Beijing School is that its authors taken activities in Beijing and Tianjin, andmost of their works have been published in Beijing and Tianjin publications. Besides, itsartistic style is more consistent in nature.“Literary Magazine”,”Literary Quarterly”,”DaGong Bao Literary” are its main magazines. The basic characteristics of the BeijingSchool is concerned about the life, emphasizing the unique character of the artistic butkeeping their distance from the political struggle. Ideologically it emphasize on “pureliterary taste”-the body of literature and regards the concept of “harmony”,“moderation”and “inappropriate” as the basic principles of aesthetic awareness. Shen Congwen is thefirst writer of the Beijing School writers.The Beijing School writers regard the “village of China” as the main contents and theirrich in cultural implications. Most of the Beijing School writers are realism school. Theychange in the development of realism, develop lyrical novels and satirical novels. Theymake fiction poetic and prosify. The realism is with romanticism breath as well. Theartistic characteristics of their works are as follows: First, the Native-Dream, the fantasticnative tracing is a major feature of the Beijing school novels. The Beijing School writersconstruct their native dream on the concept of the so-called “ideal world” and the “realworld” of Zhu Guangqian dualism which thinks that the art is the dream and the emotionis true. They agree with the attitude of rural customs and folks of patriarthy, digging therustic beauty of the human, moral beauty, characteristic beauty of the customs and theserene natural beauty. Shen Congwen’s Xiangxi World, Fei Ming’s Edong Mountain, LuFen’s Henan Orchard City, Xiao Qian’s Jinghua slums are all manifestations of thisfeature. Secondly, the compassion life, Beijing school novels are mostly out of humancompassion. Beijing School writers not only sincerely praise the purity of the primitivecivilization but also see the Confucianism of patriarchal barbaric and unfortunate life inthe history and culture of contemplation. At the same time, the Beijing School’s strongacademic background make the authors having a tragic awareness on the society andhuman in theory. Shen Congwen and Fei Ming seriously point at the aesthetic qualities of the tragedy in their works. In their views, the divineand tragic existence has inevitabilityof contact, which determines the Beijing School of the novel’s tragedy is often humantragedy. On the other hand, the Beijing School writers’ simple faith of humanity makestheir tragedy-”crisp”, but also with the feelings of “compassion smile”. Thus, theirperformance is not lack of “crisp” in their stories which keeping calm of writers. Theirnovel style is existent in the form of narrative attitude, value choice and the culturalrecommenting. They combine the pursuit of poetry with narrative and filled the romanticatmosphere in realism. Both of them are prominent features of the Beijing School’s novelstyle. Shen Congwen like the poetic form to novels. The “Border Town” has the realisticsadness, Taoyuan’s romance, and the quietness of water filled with elegant and timelesspoetry. Fei Ming is good at making the best use of good sense in writing fictions, andremoving poetic symbolism in his novels. The Beijing School writers often have a moodto create prospect. Their novels summarize the emotions with scenes or are compared tophenomenons, a three-dimensional art space with blank and ethereal, giving the reader agreat imagination. The Beijing school novels often take a form of scattered and spiritcohesive structure, which is a model of prose structure. The reason why people call thewriters as the portrait of the Beijing School stylist is mainly because of it.Throughout Beijing faction novel study course, like the comparative study of BeijingSchool novels and Shanghai style novel, Beijing faction urban theme of the novel, thestudy of the novel theme as well as artistic aesthetic research, inspect the BeijingSchool Novels respectively, from a different perspective greatly broaden the Beijingschool novels’ research horizons, the overview of the history, activities, and even writers’member, the grasp of novel style of Beijing School and the research path and methodhave many pioneering achievements. Yang Yi: the Comparative Research Between theBeijing School and the Shanghai School; Liu Jincai: Beijing School novels’ PoeticsResearch; Zhou Renzheng: Beijing Literature and Modern Culture; Wen Xuewu: BeijingSchool novels’ research; Wang Jiancang: Chinese Modern Local Literature in the realmof narrative and imagery narrative--On Shen Congwen and Jia Pingwa.Among the Beijing School Lyric novels, Huangmei Hometown of Fei Ming, XiangxiBorder Town of Shen Congwen, Henan Orchard City of Lu Fen, are the representativesof the “hometown” which often appear. They are not just plot expanding of the natural environment and humanistic background, and on behalf of the ideal original world andcivilians space of Beijing School novelists, but also the typical cultural imagery in thenovel.“Hometown” has quiet qualities of land constancy, the motherhood harmony andinclusiveness, and also a rustic natural style and the old sense of presence. It symbolizesthe poetry and native China of the writers’ imagination and leave rich attachmentemotions of national literary tradition with them. It’s common in novels of the BeijingSchool aesthetic symbol, and is an important element in the Beijing School novels poeticstyle, and is the new practice of novelists of the Beijing School of Chinese and foreignimagery theory in the field of fiction.This paper is divided into four parts, the first part analyzes the peculiarity of“hometown” in the Beijing School Novels in the type of Chinese classical and modernliterature, and explains the imagery of Chinese and Western literature and cultureprototype. Ethnic classical aesthetic complex. Traditional cultural foundation, TaoistHermit space, the Confucian one world, the Western concept of Utopian society. Thesecond part explores the aesthetic implication of the “hometown” image: About theaesthetic and harmony of hometown recollections imagine; personal nostalgia pourrestraint sustenance mere melancholy nostalgia, calling the health of humanity.constructing the Cultural Imagination of idyllic pastoral and Brideshead Revisited elegyLooking back on topic of the Beijing School writers. The fourth section analyzes the artperformance of the “hometown” image: depicting the landscape and pastoral quietenvironment, the fictions and long ethereal world, creating the elegant aesthetic effect;establishing the poetic style of the Beijing School Lyrical Novel with subtle symbol andlongly lyrical meaning. The narrative rhythm is soothing and calm. Memory modesproduce aesthetic distance and polyphonic effect. Children’s viewing pass positivenostalgic mood. Finally, we discuss the cultural value of the “hometown” image in theBeijing School novel. The novelists begin with their experiences, practicing modernEuropean and American Spirit ideological with novel creation.“Hometown” imagerepresented writers’ orientation to construct poetry, and achieved the pursuit of value torebuild dreamy world during contemporary readers’ acceptance.