A Study On The Image Of Ah Q In The "Rewritten" Novels Of The True Story Of Ah Q Since 1949

Lu Xun’s True Biography of Ah Q is a great novel that questions the soul,shocks people,and possesses great ideological and emotional power.Its core is the portrayal of "slave personality"--a critical reflection on the spiritual mechanism and survival fate of characters,rather than staying at the general rational level.Thus,the work has become a "spiritual resource" for examining human nature and society.Since its publication,it has continued to engage in dialogue with Chinese people of different eras,reflecting the changes in Chinese social and cultural thoughts to a certain extent.Since 1949,the rewriting of the True Story of Ah Q has become a remarkable cultural phenomenon,producing more than 50 rewritten novels,which form another form of dialogue with the original work.The subject of creation includes not only intellectuals,but also the general public,not only in China,but also in Southeast Asia,Spain and other Chinese cultural circles.The correlation and interaction between these rewritten novels and the original works and the context of The Times have formed an ideological space of great reflective value,which is clearly reflected by the "retelling" and "changing" of the soul character Ah Q.The image of "New Ah Q" presented in the rewritten works is restricted by different time and space contexts and media characteristics,and shows different type characteristics.In the rewritten novels published in the form of traditional paper media,there are two prominent new Ah Q image types in "Contemporary China" : "’Revolution ’Ah Q" and "Workplace’ Ah Q",the former with "Ah Q revolution" as the main narrative content,with the intervention of "Ah Q" this cultural symbol to express the new revolutionary writing connotation,showing the diversified landscape of revolutionary narrative in the post-revolutionary period.The latter places Ah Q in a specific workplace context and depicts the living situation and ideological and personality changes of Ah Q in the workplace,which not only reveals the concern about the existence of "human" as the main body of the workplace,but also indicates the exhaustion of idealism.The image of the new Ah Q in the overseas Chinese cultural circle can be divided into "Nanyang" Ah Q and "Western" Ah Q.The former shows the cultural color of the Nanyang Chinese who "worship money,chase for color,forget their ancestors and worship the foreign",and expresses their concern about the loss of cultural roots of the Chinese community.The latter Outlines a western Chinese society full of competition and risk,showing the Chinese bad roots and their survival dilemma.The writing of Ah Q in cyberspace clearly reflects the characteristics of disassembling and "consuming" the signifier "Ah Q",which is complete and rich in connotation,so that it presents the characteristics of fragmentation and diversification."Ah Q" has three special forms as "identity symbol","critical symbol" and "consumption symbol".In the above "new Ah Q" image,the "Ah Q spirit","Ah Q revolution" and "Ah Q character" expressed in the original work have become the key factors of the character’s writing."Ah Q spirit" either as a "pathological" psychological mechanism is re-staged in different classes of new Ah Q,or it is transformed into a reasonable "normal" of survival,which is given sympathetic understanding and even positive affirmation,showing the transformation trend from a spiritual criticism of vanguard intellectuals to a normal public consciousness.Again enlighten people to think about the complex relationship between material and spirit in different social situations."Ah Q Revolution" has two deductive paths as "political behavior" and "personal behavior" in rewritten novels.The former connected Ah Q with the history of political revolution and expressed reflection and criticism on the revolution,while the latter reduced it to a kind of "individual behavior" in the historical context of "farewell to revolution",showing its dual significance of liberating and shackling human nature in contemporary society.The "Ah Q nature" with the connotation of "servility" and "autocracy" has also been presented again in different forms of expression in the new Ah Q.The significance of the new Ah Q image and The Times is not only reflected in the above content,but also clearly reflected in the obvious and complex interactive relationship with the new Enlightenment trend of thought,the rise of mass culture and the development of globalization in the mainland of China in the 1980 s.First of all,some new Ah Q images are the product of the "new enlightenment" discourse.They begin their narrative in the "traditional/modern" dichotomy mode of thinking constructed by the new Enlightenment discourse.On the one hand,they complete the cultural construction of the feudalization of the Chinese revolution by rewriting the Ah Q Revolution;on the other hand,they develop an optimistic imagination of modernization reform by sketching the Ah Q in the workplace.Second,some of the new Ah Q images themselves form part of the noisy mass consumer culture.In the background of "pan-entertainment" and "everyday aesthetic life",they have become the object of emotion catharsis and desire projection of contemporary Chinese people;Finally,in the tide of globalization,Ah Q,as a cultural symbol with obvious identity,not only shows the living situation of the ethnic Chinese group in Southeast Asia,but also expresses the reflection on the contemporary nationalist trend of thought.The reason why "Lu Xun Ah Q" can be constantly rewritten as the "archetypal figure" is that this figure has two ideological potentials of "elite" and "public".The creation of the new Ah Q image reflects the distinction between the elite and the public characteristics of Lu Xun Ah Q.In the context of consumer culture,"mass characteristics" have been entertained and vulgarized,but at the same time,there are many rewrite works that have a profound understanding of the spirit of the original work and have important reflection value of The Times.In terms of artistic expression,there are also many works that boldly break through the original work,showing the artistic ingenuity and creativity of the author.In short,from the perspective of the literary and cultural landscape of the rewritten novel,the image of new Ah Q has the double reflection value of social reality and artistic creation.