The Natural Education Of Shen Congwen's Literary And Its Contemporary Significance

With the establishment of modern civilization in China,the urbanization development still exist in the ills of humanity alienation,one of its outstanding disadvantages is that metropolis forgive the human nature over the years.The concept and practice of "green education",which emerged at the beginning of this century,is to reverse this trend of human alienation.However,the existing "green education" theory mostly focuses on emphasizing the atmosphere of the campus,classroom activity and the teaching methods of "green".It is rare to find out how to choose appropriate classic literature text from the perspective of the course and the education content to develop "green education" to activate the true nature of humanity.Based on the considerations above,through access to relevant historical documents,this article find that Shen Congwen,a litterateur and educators,had a try the,which is similar to "green education" in the form of literary creation in the thirties of the last century.This article calls this attempt "literary nature education".When Shen Congwen went into Beijing,Shanghai and other metropolis,he used other identity.Absolutely different life experience prompted him to observe urban society intensively,and thus he found the "cowardly" of people in metropolis.As a result,since the 1920 s,Shen Congwen had consciously adopted his literary creation to carry out his ideal of "natural education",trying to reconstruct the decadent national character and urban life.Throughout the literary works of Shen Congwen in the years of thirties,it can be found that the nature of literature education include at least two contents: 1.The nature of aesthetic education,embodied in the aid of Xiangxi pastoral landscape image characterization,rendering the original pure natural beauty and divinity,to produce education environment that can nourish the ideal human nature and lead the citizens to love the natural beauty and good human nature in it;2.The human natureeducation compare the description of urban society and the natural world of Xiangxi to put forward the standard of become a "real man",then diffuse the disadvantages of human nature and make the citizens infiltrate in the natural local conditions and customs to regain "force","love","true" and other good human nature.The literary outputs of Shen Congwen not only leave a precious natural education legacy,but also offer beneficial enlightenment for the current Chinese teaching reform,making positive contributions for Chinese teaching to respond to the mental state of today's urban society.Through learning from Shen Congwen's literary nature education practice,the teachers can adopt school-based curriculum development and pass into the teaching mode to integrate the Shen Congwen literature,and thus they can make students obtain instrumental application of knowledge and the experience of beautiful nature and life,in this way,it can lessen the personality alienation and lack of vitality resulting from the adverse effects caused by society and human education.