The complex of the “earth worship” almost exists in the cultures of all nations in the world and also runs through the creative process of ZhangWei and Aitmatov.“The sky is covering all,the earth is containing all”,and the living people in the world hold the worship and gratitude to the education of heaven and earth especially Earth Mother.From ancient times to the present,“the earth” is one of the poetic sources of literature,but also a symbol of human origin.The earth,the Mother,and the life form the endless chain of symbols in nature.The Mother is a homogeneity of the earth.Life is the continuation of the Mother.ZhangWei and Aitmatov take the earth as the beginning of human life into the ethics of human life experience.It is easy to see that the two writers express the worship and gratitude to the Earth Mother from the deep love for the holy land to searching for the path of pain and salvation the anxiety for the loss of human nature to the world of material and goods.Saving the earth,calling for the return of humanity,the love of the earth,that is to say,the longing for the self-sacrificing Utopia of life and pure love and the fate and future of mankind,which embodies the profound humanitarian spirit of the two writers.This article will compare Zhang Wei and Aitmatov’s "earth worship" complex in three parts:The first part: A concept definition of the “worship of the earth” complex.At the same time,it introduces the thinking and cognition of the “ earth ” in different cultural systems of China and the Soviet Union and the impact of childhood experience on the formation of the “earth worship” complex of the two writers.The writer’s consciousness of "love the earth" is a traceable source of spirit.The second part introduces the construction of the image of the earth by Zhang Wei and.Aitmatov.Zhang Wei constructed his own free land with images such as nights,vineyards,and autumn.Aitmatov painted his own land utopia with grassland paradise and the sacred Issyk Kul Lake.The two writers also jointly wrote the earth’s isomorphs with beautiful motherhood and expressed their adoration of Mother Earth.The third part introduces the anxiety and distress of Zhang Wei and Aitmatov on the "earth" of the industrial civilization society.They all express their anger at the social evils of materialism with the theme of "escape" and they are also human.In hisdisappointment,he thought about saving the earth and curing the path of humanity.Through the publicity and fall of the earth utopia ideals in Zhang Wei and Aitmatov’s works,they pass on the love of the two writers,so as to warn the modern people who are alienated by material society and the awakening of the original spirit. |