Su Xuelin And The Traditional Temperament Theory In Chinese Literature

As the last writer grown in "May4th" times, with her own intelligence, wisdom and perseverance, Su Xulin had left a great literary heritage for the20th century Chinese literature. Her literary criticism seems rhetoric forthright, bold and even sharp; her prose, essay and novel are full of interest, leisure, natural style and innocence. Su Xuelin had accepted the deep influence of traditional culture, but, at a senior women’s normal school in Beijing, she also had accepted advanced education and known about the new-vernacular literature and the new thoughts. In the collision and blending between the new and the old, facing with traditional and modern ideas, Su Xuelin consciously combined modern thoughts, handing down and developing the essence of traditional culture, and formed a unique personal style. This thesis focuses on exploring and analyzing the relationship between Su Xuelin and temperamental literary tradition, tries to discuss the contributions she had made in the inheritance and development of temperamental literary thoughts, represented by Yuan Mei. It also excavates deeply the integration and blending with Su’s thoughts and creations enlightened by temperamental literary thoughts, which aims at providing a new explanation angle for the formation of Su’s unique thoughts and her literary creation.The thesis is divided into three parts of exordium, text (four chapters) and concluding remarks.The exordium consists of two aspects:one mainly accounts for the research background and the significance of the selected topic, the other briefly reviews and defines temperamental literary tradition, which also points out the relationship between Su Xuelin and temperamental literary tradition.The first chapter of text explores and analyzes the cultural origin of Su and temperamental literary tradition mainly from three points of view:cultural environment of Su’s birth place, family circumstance and reading accumulation as well as "aspiration expression" trends during May Fourth Period. Thus, the specific factors that affected Su’s temperamental literary thoughts can be clarified.While chapter two expounds the essence of Su’s temperament thoughts to emphasize on the internalization and integration she did towards temperamental literary tradition primarily through three parts:"sparkplug disposition","respecting nature" and "childlike innocence".Chapter three analyzes Su’s temperament thoughts represented in her literary creation and criticism in detail:the former mainly contains sincere straightforward emotions, leisure comfortable sentiment and fresh flexible spirituality. And the latter includes highly praise of rich writings of talent and feelings, emphases on personalized, original, straightforward critical characteristics.And chapter four principally discusses on the changes and transcendence of Su’s temperament thoughts. First, writing styles changed because of the language environment at that time and transitions of Su’s mind state in her twilight years. Second, the enrichment and development of temperamental literary thoughts are followed by absorbing exotic culture.Finally, it is the concluding remarks, which will sketch the thesis and praise Su upon her contributions to the perceptive integration of the traditional and modern culture.