On The Folk Construction In Mo Yan’s Novels

Folk is a comprehensive concept,including many kinds of meanings,and it can be either as a way of literary creation and criticism, also can be used as a kind of cultural consciousness and value standpoint. It not only provides a dynamic theory for the development of literature,but also causes the intellectuals to think about their existence. Since the 1990 s,as the control of ideology becomes loose and the loss of enlightenment discourse,many writers and intellectuals pay close attention to folk again and they are moving away from politics and towards the folk. Mo Yan is an outstanding representative of them,and his novels contain rich folk elements.Mo Yan is a writer with anthropology vision and he has different methods and perspectives compared with other writers. In his works,folk shows a special face: on the relationship between human and nature,human and animals and plants can live in harmony and even have soul communications with them;on the family ethics relationship, everyone has the equal status and there is no deep-rooted feudal ideology in family;on the social operation,the influence of feudal and patriarchal clan system is very small,and people pay more attention to the fate and humanity than political struggle under the guidance of savage thought.Because of Mo Yan’s unique life experience, knowledge structure,value standpoint and so on,folk has a special face in his works. He was born and grew up in a countryside and heard many fairy stories from farmers and influenced by the ancient Qi culture. When he left the countryside to the city,he accepted the modern education,and it makes him know more about novel and novel skills, broaden his vision. In the 1980s-1990 s,all kinds of the western literature and art thoughts were introduced to China,and it enriched the theory of resources of Mo Yan’s literary creation,and it also had a significant influence on the civil construction in his novels.Mo Yan is a intellectual that with a farmer quality and he highlights the importance of folk in his works. It has both practical and theoretical significance.In the 20 th century Chinese literature history,folk is hidden in works sometimes,and it is to inherit and carry forward the folk tradition that Mo Yan highlights the folk status in his works. During the May 4th New Culture Movement,many intellectuals treat folk with an enlightenment perspective and it has a backwash effect for enlightenment discourse in Mo Yan’s novels. With the rapid development of globalization,people in different countries are more closely and the culture exchanges are more deeply.Mo Yan sticks to the folk in his literary creation and it is a special way to criticize the Western Culture Hegemony for him.