Essay On The Creation Of Contemporary Shanxi Local Novels

Shanxi has a long history and culture,and its people have been a great source of inspiration,and its literature has occupied an important place in traditional Chinese literature.Especially in the 1940 s,in the specific cultural context of the liberated areas,the "potato School",with Zhao Shuli as the banner and Ma Feng,Xi Rong,Shuo Wei,Sun Qian and Hu Zheng as the main force,emerged in the 1940 s.In the 1960 s,the "potato school" gradually declined,which was related to the slackening of the literary stance of its representatives and the conformity of the context of the times.However,the long-established folk stance and realistic approach of the "potato school" still exist in Shanxi literature as a literary gene,either implicitly or explicitly.Since the new era,three generations of writers have emerged in Shanxi literature,called by critics as the contemporary "Jinjun","after Jinjun" and the new group of writers,with obvious generational differences between them,but following the spirit of realism,facing the changing local world,and working on the complexities of the peasantry during the period of social transformation.However,they follow the spirit of realism,face up to the changing local world,devote themselves to the complex and tortuous psychological world of peasants in the period of social transformation,still have similar narrative stance,and are connected to the bloodline of their predecessors,the "potato school" writers.There are sufficient theoretical bases for calling it the "new potato school".The "potato school" is a product of the development of new Chinese literature,the combination of the spirit of the times and regional culture,and a genre of local literature generated by the inherent requirements of literary development,in which Zhao Shuli’s creation undoubtedly played a key role in demonstrating and leading.Since then,several generations of Shanxi writers have been exploring and innovating on this basis,forming an unbroken lineage of contemporary literature in Shanxi.In the new period of Shanxi’s local literature writing,especially the sequence of Shanxi’s contemporary local literature constituted by the "Jinjun","after the Jinjun" and the new group of writers,the three generations of writers have their own distinctive characteristics,but in terms of creative consciousness and the establishment of the theme,character portrayal,and the expression of the aesthetic interests embodied in the However,in terms of creative consciousness and theme establishment,character portrayal,and aesthetic interest in expression,the distinctive marks of the "potato school" of the previous generation of writers can still be seen,and they are an extension of the path pioneered and experience accumulated by the "potato school" writers.The relationship between them and the "potato school" is closely linked and inherited.In the new context of the times and culture,Shanxi’s rural writers of different generations have explored new themes of the countryside,trying to achieve creative transformation and transcendence on the basis of sucking the juice of the creative fruits of the previous "potato school" writers and enriching their own experience.From the Enlightenment perspective,he focuses on the spiritual state of the peasants and explores the history and culture of the nation in depth,gradually turning to the changes in the fate and spirit of the rural peasants under the confrontation between urban and rural civilizations;from the focus on characters to a general view of the whole;from the language to the organic integration of dialect and colloquialisms in the text,so that the regional and contemporary characteristics are manifested in one work;in the level of narrative and artistic forms,he boldly uses new text structures.In terms of narrative and artistic forms,the work boldly uses new textual structures and narratives,and reasonably incorporates Western modernist techniques into the creation of the text.The contemporary Shanxi local writers are based on the tide of the development of the times,rooted in the deep soil of Shanxi literature,thrive on the rich nutrients of Shanxi literature,and combine the experience of their predecessors with the literary concepts of the new era,creating a Shanxi local literature.As a result,it has also acquired its own value.From the perspective of literary history,overcoming the limitations of fixed perspectives in an attempt to show the twisted and complex spiritual world and realistic picture of rural farmers,the pluralistic orientation of aesthetic consciousness provides fresh qualities for the writing of Shanxi local literature;from the cultural level,the humanistic spirit of concern embodied in the folk position has profound cognitive significance for thinking about the fate and development direction of rural farmers in the changing times of mobility.Their creations are full of vitality and infinite possibilities,foreshadowing the broad prospect of the development of Shanxi local literature.