Aesthetic Elucidation In Tantan’s Colliery Literature

For Tantan, coal mine is not just a workplace, but his homeland, which has transcended realistic significance to exist as a spiritual symbol. As a leader in the community of Lian-Shao mine writers, Tantan treats the Black Land with full warmth, which, in his eyes, is full of sufferings, yet, has hopes in disguise. A mine world full of poetic beauty, humanity beauty and geographical feature is elaborately constructed in his colliery literature in an attempt to summon humanity beauty and kindness with aesthetic strength in order to fight against the darkness and chilliness in real life and demonstrate the heart-warming feelings and the strength of tender feelings.This thesis makes attempts to probe into the aesthetic beauty of the mine space presented in Tantan’s literature works. Through the presentation of the beauty of natural landscape in mine area, the expression of harmonious relation among human beings and between human and mine, and the comparison made between mine space and rural space, this thesis drills down into the poetic beauty of mine space depicted in Tantan’s writings and explores the author’s interior motivation to construct such a spiritual space characterized by great inclusiveness.Probe into humanity beauty in the delineated Black Land not only by uncovering the heart-warming human nature from mine individuals, including male and female coal miners, but also by exploring the strength and aesthetics of humanity from relationships. Investigates the beauty of Tantan’s colliery literature from the angle of regional culture, where the use of folklores, dialects and mysterious tales in Hunan region contributes to the salient feature and unique artistic charm of Tantan’s colliery literature. Poetic beauty and humanity beauty infiltrate Tantan’s writings, just like a light of hope that piercing the darkness, which makes the readership feel the sincere strength delivered by the literature works that transcends the reality. These characteristics apply an eternal and bright color to Tantan’s works and render his works transcending the times and breaking the geographic constraints.