A Study Of Landscape Writing In Yan An Literature

In the history of the development of modern Chinese literature,the landscape writing of Yan an literature has its uniqueness.Yan an literature began in October 1935 when the Red Army led by the CPC Central Committee arrived in northern Shanxi,and ended in July 1949 when the first National Literature Congress was held.And the real emergence of a large number of literary creations may be delayed until the literary and artistic groups entered Yan an in 1937.The author takes Yan an literature in the narrow sense—the literature centered on Yan an,the capital of the Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region—as the research object,to comb and explore the landscape writing in the literature creation of the Yan an period,and to discover the characteristics and meaning of landscape writing.One of the key words in this research—the word “landscape” greatly exceeds its ideological nature,but a metaphor formed in the process of text construction such as“landscape” + “writing”,so that Yan an Literature has entered the level of cultural construction with modern significance.The research holds that by introducing "landscapes" and related literary techniques into literary studies,re-examining the inherent cultural tension of Yan an literature from the perspective of landscape writing and landscape narrative,thus presenting the historical complexity and uniqueness of Yan an literature.The thesis is divided into three parts.The first chapter is mainly to explore the landscape writing and characteristics of landscape writing in Yan an literature.In natural landscape,the main focus is on the "earth" and "sun" and the way to enter the sight of humans and become landscape,and the form of their appearance in literary works.The earth is a humanistic landscape with modern significance which accompany with people's labor.It carries the hope of survival of natural organic life and human beings.The scenes describing land reclamation and grain harvest are abundant in Yan an literature.It is learned that human beings have a relationship with the earth when people are transforming the landscape of the earth.The sun with the earth,as a material that is born with light and warmth,constitutes a benign ecological living body together,which brings light and warmth into human life and gives human nourishment by growing natural food.Due to the emergence of the modern socialmodel,the daily and cultural activities of the people have undergone great changes in the human landscape,resulting in the creation of a new relationship chain in the human landscape,expanding the meaning of landscape writing,and the human landscape as main role in the Yan an literary landscape writing.Based on the revolutionary creation of realism,Yan an literature has its historical mission.At this time,the landscape writing exceeded the aesthetic paradigm in the traditional sense,moving towards a functional expression of reality,and transformed from the original free and diverse landscape to standard and unified landscape,so landscape writing aesthetically changed from a natural perception of human nature to a political perception,then the aesthetic function of the landscape was weakened.The second chapter focuses on landscape as non-free things.It has narrative function in literary works.Especially after "characters as landscape",landscape are more involved in the whole narrative process.At this time,landscape writing basically presents a kind of "No landscape" status.From the perspective of human subjectivity,landscape is in a relationship of "seeing" and "being seen".In women narrative,as a landscape against feudalism,women fight for freedom,and resolutely move towards revolution which hide in a semi-bright state,that means the future of women's freedom is bright,but the road is tortuous.In the revolutionary narrative,landscape writing transforms the sublime character of a character into a spiritual landscape.A revolutionary will and spirit are used to build a sacred landscape that is full of hope for the motherland.By shaping a series of heroic figures,they make up the spiritual homeland of the people.The original bloody revolutionary violent landscape was transformed into a revolutionary lofty landscape with a sense of justice through the construction of human subjectivity.The third chapter attempts to analyze the way that Yan an,as a “community of national imagination”,gives the people of Yan an a bright vision and a beautiful imagination with its regional landscape,and Yan an literature recreates an ideal country parallel to the real world that satisfy the people.In this ideal country,the people can obtain their own food through active and hard work,and they can transform themselves through the cultural construction of a new society.In Yan an literature,the literati worked hard to create a Yan an landscape with a cultural atmosphere and vitality,and these spiritual landscapes made a bright yearning for revolution and life.