The Study Of Village Official Images In Shaanxi Novels In The New Period

Shaanxi writers have a good tradition of writing rural literature.From Liu Qing to the Lu yao and Chen zhongshi and Jia Pingwa,Generation of Shaanxi writers turn their eyes to the countryside as well as farmers,and create a significant rural novels.In the new period,especially since the new century,China has been transformed from traditional agricultural society to modern industrial society.The clash between tradition and modernity is particularly serious in rural society.Ignorance and civilization,advanced and backward,feudal and democracy,which tangle together,and forms a rich and complex social and political culture.Therefore,reflecting the rural and farmers becomes the inevitable choice of Shaanxi writers.As a special type of character in the rural novels,the images of village official,namely village cadres,have been centralized reflected in the Shaanxi rural novels,and has achieved a number of typical characters in Chinese modern and contemporary literature.Shaanxi rural novels and village official images have a profound historical origin.More than one thousand years of history cultures makes the farmers who live in this massive land of Shaanxi form one kind of stable cultural psychological structure.Rich details of culture,pioneering and enterprising spirit as well as compassionate and unpretending character are condensed in the blood of Shaanxi people,which formed the tradition in Shaanxi writers that they always pay attention to the reality and concern about the bottom of the people,especially the survival and development of farmers.At the same time,Shaanxi writers,even the most writers in the literary circles of Shaanxi in the new period,come from the countryside and know the hardships of the peasants’ subsistence.They have a natural affinity for the peasants.Especially the Rectification Movement and Speech at Yanan Forum on Literature and Art in 1942,which advocated writers to adopt realistic creation methods and represent the general public life.The writers response to the party’s call,and create a mass of works reflecting the lives of farmers.Therefore,there are a lot vivid and typical peasant images in modern and contemporary Chinese Literature.These creative traditions greatly influenced later writers,who locked their eyes on the countryside and reflected changes in the countryside in their novels.In the new period,the typical and various village officials in Shaanxi novels form the image pedigree of Shaanxi literature village official images.According to the features of villages officials which appear in the novel text.There are five categories of the village official image.The first is good village official image who cares about villages,the second is village official image who has two sides of good and evil,the third is bully village official,the fourth is village official image who can help village,and the last village official image is the female village official image.The dual natures of official has also made them become an important window to observe the rural society.The rich and colorful image of village officials not only reflects the diversity and plenty of rural and peasant life,but also appears the rural governance systems and related issues.The pursuit of power,the selfish of authority and the humble man reflect the harm of alienation of power;the rural patriarchal clan system and human relations greatly hinder the improvement of the system of grassroots self-government and rural governance.The village official images writing in Shaanxi Novels,not only reflect the development status in rural areas,but more significantly is to reflect the rural mental status and rural cultural ecology.The exhibition and criticism of distortion of human nature under the alienation of power is also a call for good and healthy humanity.The reflection and criticism of the rural ethics and morality,and the promotion of good morals,are to reshape rural ethics.To criticism the drawback of rural self-government organization,especially the lack of rural democracy and the neglect of female democratic status is to improve the rural democracy construction and promote the development of rural grass-roots self-government system.The village official images in Shaanxi novels in the new period,are not only rich and colorful,greatly enrich the character Gallery of modern and contemporary Chinese Literature,but also keep pace with the times,and deeply reflect the development of Shaanxi rural.The novels also remain a literary historical memory.The village official images in Shaanxi novels have vivid characters and distinctive personality.They are the typical symbol about the village official images,and they also add a wonderful page to literature.