How is the "beauty of human nature" embodied in Shen Congwen's "Xiangxi amorous feelings novels"?

On the embodiment of human beauty in Shen Congwen's works and life

When we examine the history of modern literature in China, we will find that Shen Congwen is a name that has been neglected for a long time but cannot be bypassed. Nowadays, people always lament the loneliness of his figure on the literary road and the silence of his later life after the founding of the People's Republic of China. But I think that his loneliness not only saved an intuitive, precipitated and simple dream of human nature that he breathed from his hometown landscape in his literary works, but also made the brilliance of human beauty shine from his works into real life, leaving us with a typical figure who appreciates beauty today. It can be said that among modern writers in China, Shen Congwen is a different grass. The situation after the founding of the People's Republic of China did not obliterate his dignity and talent. Instead, under the impact of the turbulent tide of the times, he plunged into the underwater rocks, silently spun silk into cocoons in the study of cultural relics in the archaeological field, wrote a masterpiece to fill the gaps in the study of Chinese clothes, and realized another chance in life. "Different" is to measure people, things, places, etc. You don't understand by your own values. The situation in the literary world in the past 50 years is that young people wear armor, like Athena with a sword, and make swords and spears with pens, pointing at feudal autocracy, warlords, bureaucrats and foreigners. The mainstream of new literature works is the description of the miserable life of working people and the cry of ugliness and injustice; However, Shen Congwen's novels tend to reveal the basic conditions of human existence, like the whimper of Yamashita's flute, trying to enlighten every reader in the novel to think endlessly and ask questions about the rich living conditions of human beings. For every foggy road, light a lamp of human beauty. It is precisely because of this difference in aesthetic consciousness that Shen Congwen has become an "alien" army in the history of modern literature. In the shadow of swords and swords, in the pool of blood where five martyrs of the "Left-wing League" gave their lives for revolutionary literature, nature emerged through Feng Ming conveyed by a simple and honest man. Autobiography of Congwen is a biography of the author in the first 20 years of his life (from birth to leaving Xiangxi). The full text presents "bizarre and interesting" materials through complicated and tortuous narration, and shows how Shen Congwen made a difficult choice of life. This choice is based on philosophical meditation and experience, and is expressed by the image of a wild elf in a beautiful mountain flower in western Hunan. There are too many people who study the obvious separation between the author's self-cognition and the known biographical materials of Shen Congwen. However, we refuse to face it squarely. It is this dissociation between self-awareness and external behavior that makes us have traces. Shen Congwen's grasp and demand for the inner spiritual truth of himself let us know why Shen Congwen can find the seemingly beautiful and vivid knowledge of cultural relics appreciation in the historical torrent of "forever boring, suffocating and immobile life" in a special social and historical period. In this way, Shen Congwen completed the standing of an intellectual in an era when writers were strangled by power; When the contemporary writers who once regarded it as a heresy have produced a truly inhuman alienation in the sense of soul, they still issued a beautiful scenery on Qishan. A person's behavior is always the result of his life experience and ideological implication manipulation. The most primitive fear of human beings should be the fear of death. Throughout the ages, people from all walks of life can't escape the same fear of death. The survival situation of Shen Congwen in the first 20 years of his life is a vicious circle that witnessed his death almost every day: the murderer was killed, and the murderer was killed again. His life was constantly thrown into this circle and involuntarily regarded as fate. Growing up in such an environment, Shen Congwen has been suffering from unimaginable hardships in life and serious mental torture. But gradually lost the fear of death, completely let life and death make a choice for him as an individual. This indifference seems a little numb on the surface, but in fact it is his choice of his attitude towards life after careful thinking, which is tantamount to his choice after a battle. Apart from Autobiography of Congwen, his works are not only rich in content, but also varied in subject matter and genre. This wild spirit in Xiangxi Mountain Flowers guides readers and a nation with the most sincere heart-to get rid of the heaviness of major themes of the times such as "women, nation and class", and to appreciate the purity and goodness of human nature from the accompanying creatures of historical progress such as "bloodshed and sacrifice" in imperfect and not beautiful stories. Bai Zi and Sasha Vujacic ... Between the lines of each story, Shen Congwen's yearning and warm feelings are flowing. The brilliance of human beauty shining in each work is collected by his compassionate robe and turned into fragrant wood of warm sunshine. These fragrant trees are piled up to light the inner bonfire in the indifferent world. The simple children who came out of this phoenix land not only rejected the distortion of human nature by different cultures, but also protected the nature of others. "Bare mast, as long as it is close to the body, will climb up quickly ... Young sailors will sing on it while tidying the rope ..." Shen Congwen is describing the hardships of labor and the great happiness that labor brings to sailors. In any case, labor is also a kind of beauty that excites Mr. Shen, and it is precisely this kind of beauty that Mr. Shen is good at feeling. Against this beautiful background, a kind of darkness of human nature that was originally spurned by people, and the "ugliness" of sailor Bai Zi trying to vent his life heat like a rude bull when he arrived at the shore, all became this beautiful continuation. With proper logic, Shen Congwen shows that the behavior of characters is understandable, and shows the nature of people who control their destiny to vent their desires and longings. After all, the whole fate of wandering work can be mortgaged to instant pleasure, and the hard struggle of humble life is of great value. "With a big belly, there is nothing to say ... Uncle doesn't read Confucius and can't bear to sacrifice Xiaoxiao. Xiaoxiao should of course get married and become a' two-way relative' ... Everyone should take good care of the mother and son, eat steamed chicken and rice wine to replenish blood, and burn paper to thank God. " Shen Congwen showed us the countryside in Sasha Vujacic, which was very affectionate and realistic. They always give people a way out, and people can live forever. Like the outside world, they have their own simple and simple survival principles. Shen Congwen mocked the grotesque and terrible world abroad with the laughter of the rustling township party: the revolutionary trend was vast, and the most precious life was sacrificed for various reasons like dirt, and there was no point in seeing the value. Shen Congwen told us to keep our dreams. We are glad that there is such a country where Xiaoxiao can die. We are glad that people in this country do not know what revolution can save them. We are glad that they think there is no more precious moral code than rustling life. From this dream, we can see Shen Congwen's lonely scenery and rustling countryside, which exudes the beauty of human nature. After reading one story after another, the smell of fragrant wood can erase the hubbub of the world. In addition to understanding the contingency and legend of life, we can gradually understand the direction of life, but it always has the inevitability that personality determines fate. In an era of awkward reading caused by history, the fate of novel art has really become the mission of novelists. Novels are no longer read as novels, and the ideology of novel art makes novelists unable to be fully responsible for the art of pure novels. Shen Congwen put away his flute and stopped playing quiet and beautiful music. After 1968, the reduced manuscript of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Islands was taken out of the Soviet Union. This book shows us Gorky, who is regarded as a classic master of research, in addition to Haiyan and Eagle. Although it was 30 years later, people in China had the opportunity to learn that Gorky, in order to keep his servant's palace-like life, clearly knew with tears that the prisoners on the island lived a hellish life on Solowitz Island; After returning from the island, he published articles all over the world, proclaiming that life on the island is as beautiful as heaven. There are many writers in modern China, and the tricks performed by revolutionary writers in the past are as good as Gorky's. However, Shen Congwen miraculously stepped out of the heaviness and bitterness of near hell from real life, and made a clean transition from mountains and rivers to a bright future. If the beauty of human nature keeps flashing in his products, it proves that it is not thorough to consciously destroy natural human nature when recognizing the May 4th new trend of thought and after the rational spirit in thought awakens. At this time, after thinking clearly about the characteristics of the times in which the "self" is located and the trend of the overall national spirit, the external social existence forms adopt a passive attitude of acknowledging and accepting the existing order and concepts, and stick to the pure land of the soul by studying cultural relics, which is a return to the beauty of human nature in life, a seemingly compromise to reality, and actually an insistence on the bright and pure release of human nature. This persistence is not the short-term crazy roar and sad accusation of some writers, but the poetic transformation of the weight of life into an embarrassing lightness. Although it is only a thin spring, it has been infiltrating and flowing in the river bed of life for half a century, completing the gradual transformation to rationality and knowledge experienced by a son of nature in his works, striving for the initiative to master his own destiny, giving up rationality with social significance in real life and adjusting the living state of life to the existence of nature and knowledge.