On The Folk Writing Of He Kaixuan’s Novels

He Kaixuan from a family of farm workers who have experienced the life of people living in northeast China can integrate his personal experience into his novel writing.Folk life,the most active elements in his novels,is also important resource of his writing.He Kaixuan likes to choose materials from ordinary people.In this way,he draws a survival space which can “shelter evil people and countenance evil practices”.By resurrecting folk scenes,writing local customs,excavating folk spirits,singing folk ideals,He Kaixuan describes ordinary life scenes of one generation as well as their exquisite spiritual world.Based on folk theories of Chen Sihe,this paper explores folk lives of people in novels written by He Kaixuan from the aspects of the secular folk world,the presentation of folk positions and the artistic expression of the folk world.He Kaixuan constructs a rich and three-dimensional secular folk world in his novels.His writings of vivid portraits of the folk figures,vast and complicated pictures of folk people in their daily lives as well as complex and abundant emotion states of common people describe living conditions and mental states of common people in detail,which reproduces feelings and social conditions of folk people.Readers can deeply explore meanings of life contained in folk characters and various forms of life in novels written by the author and understand aesthetic dreams and value appeals of the writer.The appearance of the folk world presented in the novel is completely decided by the writer’s choice of positions.He Kaixuan,consciously standing in the position of folk people,tries his best to distance himself from the mainstream political position,to avoid poetic folk writing and to show original folk lives.He not only implicitly criticized deep-rooted bad habits of people,but also basically recognized folk beliefs and survival means of common people,which reflected his multiple value orientations integrating his enlightenment position and folk feelings.When looking back at his hometown cordially,He Kaixuan felt the free living states of folk people and their tenacious life vitality and finally found the foothold of his folk standpoint,on which he placed his hope.The folk writings of He Kaixuan’s novels reveal his unique aesthetic pursuits.He can fully absorb folk resources and use northeast dialects and spoken languages as well as popular metaphors and animal images to highlight aesthetic tastes of folk people.He Kaixuan likes to carry on folk narrative traditions and is good at creating fantastical narrative plots and inclusive narrative structures.At the same time,he has also done many personalized explorations by referring to pioneering techniques and “display”narrative modes and text interaction skills to seek novelty and gradual changes.