Sun Li In His Later Years Prose Aesthetic Orientation

In the late age of Sun li, a dramatic change occurred both in the literary form and the way of narration.Sun suffered the inadaptation of city life, and therefore, recalled his hometown, childhood and the people and accidents happened during the revolutionary war era. In his late age literary creation, an emotional tendency towards country occurred, and the essays he wrote present almost all the happiness in his life. The Ten-year catastrophe resulted in the changes of Sun. This is a great turning point, when the narration style turns from praise true, good and beautiful to criticize false, bad, and ugly, the narration content enlarges to vast history, and then reality. Sun used the Spirits of May4th Movement and traditional culture, such as the Confucianism, as his "weapon" to criticize the reality. In addition with the profound thought and knowledge resulting from life experiences, literary form of Sun’s works turn to essay, which shows his extraordinary ideologist’s temperament exactly.