Research On Feng Jicai's Prose Writin

Since the publication of the historical novel "Boxer Fist" in the late 1970 s,Feng Jicai’s creative activities over the years have gone through various stages of literary development since the new period,becoming a microcosm of the development of contemporary literary history.From the scar literature that accuses the "Cultural Revolution" to the life novel that pays attention to reality,to the cultural reflection novel that criticizes traditional culture and the series of novels that go deep into the folk,Feng Jicai has always carried out historical reflection and cultural reflection in the novel.After the 1990 s,the focus of his career shifted to cultural protection,as the chairman of the Folk Writers Association,Feng Jicai presided over the rescue project of Chinese folk cultural heritage,and carried out large-scale rescue and protection of China’s marginalized folk customs and ancient villages,which is of great significance to the inheritance of Folk Culture in China.During this period,novel writing gradually decreased,and prose became a position for him to reflect and express social thinking.From the ruthless criticism of traditional culture in the early 1980 s and the advocacy of modernist literature,to the appreciation of Western culture in travelogue prose,to the return to folk and local in field prose,Feng Jicai’s different creations have formed a tension,and his cultural position seems to have been changing,which seems to be contradictory,but also provides a possibility for us to study his cultural thinking.Feng Jicai constantly thinks about the current cultural dilemma in literary creation and in the government and the public,looking for space to speak,which has also become a personal feature of his creation.The current research lacks the overall study of Feng Jicai’s prose,Feng Jicai’s literary creation and cultural activities are ideologically consistent,so it is necessary to link prose creation with novel creation and cultural activities to investigate the evolution of Feng Jicai’s cultural thought,to explore the uniqueness and value of his prose in the history of contemporary literature.In addition to the introduction,this article is divided into three parts: the first part sorts out the situation of Feng Jicai’s prose creation,discusses the era background of Feng Jicai’s prose writing and the driving force of personal prose creation.Feng Jicai’s prose presents the characteristics of stages,and the use of prose style in writing is also casual and natural,reflecting the consciousness of stylistic self-consciousness.Feng Jicai’s creative activities are closely related to the social background,paying attention to the development trend of the times and the problems that arise in society,and conveying his ideas in prose.Feng Jicai was born in Cixi,Tianjin,tianjin is the root of his literary creation,which has a profound impact on his creation.The second part takes Feng Jicai’s overall prose creation as the research object,sorts out the development of cultural thought presented in his prose,and explores the theme of Feng Jicai’s prose creation in combination with the writer’s novel creation and field cultural actions.Due to the wide range of prose creation styles and themes,Feng Jicai’s prose is roughly divided into three categories based on the content and period of creation.The emotional prose of writing life is scattered throughout his various creative periods,expressing the beautiful experience of life in narrative lyricism.Feng Jicai continued the spirit of reflection in novel writing in his prose,and after the mid-1980 s,in the face of the strong influx of Western culture and the squeezing of the living space of local culture,Feng Jicai reflected and criticized this phenomenon in his prose,emphasizing the importance of national culture and regional culture.The third category is his field prose,when Traveling in a foreign country,Feng Jicai was impressed by the long-standing culture of the West and the people’s cherishing of his own national culture,and in the comparison of Chinese and Western cultures,Feng Jicai’s cultural thought gradually took shape and matured.In the 1990 s,Feng Jicai carried out many cultural actions and practiced his own cultural ideas.Field essays mainly record what they see and hear when they carry out folk activities,and depict the current situation of folk culture while helping to build a national cultural identity.Although there are large differences in prose themes before and after,Feng Jicai always takes real life and social issues as the object of writing in his essays,and thinks about the modernity of culture and the contemporary fate of traditional culture through the criticism of the current cultural situation and the casual record of travel and fieldwork.The third part analyzes the artistic characteristics of Feng Jicai’s prose from the aspects of language,structure,style,and authenticity of the prose.The painter’s aesthetic vision and the novelist’s language have made Feng Jicai’s prose distinctive.Feng Jicai’s understanding of the authenticity of prose creation presents a balance between truth and fiction in prose,which enhances the readability of prose.The uniqueness of Feng Jicai’s prose is reflected in his conscious exploration of the content and style of prose expression,which continues the thinking of culture in the novel in terms of content,the difference is that the cultural stance differs from the novel,at the same time,the prose has also become the position of his thinking in the later stage of cultural activities,and has reached communication with the reader;in the form of seeking a breakthrough in the boundaries of style,cross-genre writing experiments.It is these conscious explorations in prose creation that Feng Jicai’s prose presents a unique charm in the prose of contemporary writers.