Body Rites In Yan Lianke’s Novels

"Body"is a knot of life’s meaning.It governs not only our soul but also our flesh,which guides behaviors of people’s daily life.Since the 21~thh century,the attempt of“body writing”and the research of"body narrative"have revealed the exploration and thinking of writers and scholars about the meaning of people’s“daily body”and“text body”.All external manifestations of the body can be regarded as physical phenomena.These complex physical phenomena are often highly described in novels,and show a breakthough of daily existence."Rites"is derived from physical behavior established by people through long social practicesome.It has more forms and profound content than the ordinary daily life,which has special narrative ability of social and historical fields,especially in the symbolic function.It can not be separated from human body operation and mental perception,which is essentially expressed by the body and belongs to the body too.For writers,the"body rite"is a carrier and basic premise of their daily life,furthermore,it symbolizes love and reality of humanistic care as well as respect for life.It’s obvious that"body’s awakening”starts a craze across the contemporary novels,which is full of the specific and diverse of body’s description,so as the rationalization and reality of the physical desire.Yan Lianke showed his unique body perception.His body language shows a colorful picture without simple"naked"or"violence".Yan Lianke’s novels can be regarded as the novels with true meaning of the sensual,which is not only because of his narrative,but more because of its implementation of the"life and death","love and desire"in his story.These works show the writer’s deep,thorough and enthusiastic observation and reflection on people in real life.The exploration of human nature in Yan Lianke’s novels often embodies a kind of"body presence"means of writing.He always takes the body as the standard,so as to extend the multidimensional and multi-level daily life narration.In these depiction of"body",the mundane actions that human body has to go through in daily life,such as eating and drinking,Lazarus,weddings and funerals,etc.,occupy most of the novels.These secular behaviors,because of some established personal or social principles,produced further ritual and became"ritual".This paper use the word"body rite"to refer to the ritual and ritual sense of body behavior in the works.By interpreting the daily body ritual in Yan Lianke’s novels,we make personalized interpretation of the characters and themes of the works.