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The rise of the roots-seeking literature in 1980s trends to the observation of traditional culture with modern thinking, to find the roots of culture, to analysis psychological structure of national culture and rehandle national self. However, because Chinese culture is an inclusive cultural system, it does not have a simple, strong overall national characteristics,the Chinese culture is open, inclusive, enriching, it is with a lot of specific forms, so during the root-seeking process, the writers onsciously or unconsciously, began the search for the specific regional culture.Roots-seeking writers clear and definite the root of literature and also firmly believe the non-normative culture is the hope for the Chinese literature to enter into the world. So they put their thinking enrichment for cultural limited in their familiar native lands, committing to re dig the vibrant folk culture and local culture scattered in the border area, the village, and norms outside and took folk customs and people’s livelihood as a special cultural object for the contemplation of history, as a means of expression of the associated cultural psychology. Such as Shaogong of the ChuXiang Culture, Li Hang Yu of the Wu and Yue culture, Zheng Wanlong of culture in the Kanto, Jia ping wa of the Shangluo culture, Zheng Yi of the Sanjin culture, strong concern for the local culture had become their group intention. Roots-Seeking writers, displayed their scan and reflection on traditional culture not only in creation purport, and also in creative practice, they inherited the traditional aesthetic ideal, through the myths and legends, old folk songs, dialect slang, they constructed a vast, desolate, mysterious natural artistic world, it showed feelings of idealism beyond the reality and a strong sense of urgency.The rise of the roots-seeking literature was beyond the political level, opened up new areas of novels, continuing the"local" style created during"54", but also made local novel into a higher level. It set rich traditional culture or local culture as the background, expanded description on the history and reality, so that it has a unique artistic conception of Chinese literature. However, it considers the crystallization of geographical, historical traditions, national, local and other non-normative culture as the root it is looking for, the culture position itself has a certain of danger, combined with the contradictions between ideal and reality, looking and departure,the once massive roots-seeking literature trend of thought can only inevitably to silence.
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