Humanistic spirit is a people-oriented thought, which highly affirms human value and dignity, advocates human free nature and human liberation, is the ultimate concern for the meaning of life and human destiny, and embodies the consciousness of introspection, criticism and transcendence. "Based on human culture, I think humanistic spirit refers to the spirit on which human beings live, live and develop, which is unique to people. This spirit is the respect, care and promotion of humanity, personality, life, value, sense of responsibility and sense of responsibility. It is also the yearning and pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty for people and mankind. Broadly speaking, humanistic spirit at least includes people-oriented, self-esteem, self-love, self-reliance, self-reliance, mutual respect, equal treatment, care and service to society, care for nature and treat nature well. " ⑶ This paper only analyzes the humanistic spirit in Zhang Xiaofeng's prose from three aspects: affection, patriotism and natural feelings.
First, intimacy.
The Chinese nation has a history and culture of 5,000 years, which is not only related to the vast land and the broad masses, but also related to relatives. The motif of "affection" has always been an important part of China's prose. Han Yu's Ode to Twelve Langs, Foreign Languages in Bird, Henan and Zhu Ziqing's Mourning for the Past are excellent works to express affection, friendship and love respectively. Zhang Xiaofeng is a female writer influenced by traditional culture, which makes her show her talents in the field of kinship. Here, she embraces her family and life with a generous and kind heart. The important components of Zhang Xiaofeng's prose creation are affection, friendship and love, which express her attachment and yearning for good feelings. She expressed her affection for her family and children, friendship with friends and love for her husband in a unique way, so that readers can appreciate her colorful emotional world.
1, family
In the first poem, the first snow, the charming girl, the black sand and other works, mothers take care of their children everywhere. In the first poem, Zhang Xiaofeng proudly declared to the world that "my greatest honor will be to be a good mother". She withdrew and rejected the titles of "the honor of the monarch" and "the honor of the scholar" only because they were overshadowed by the title of "mother". Here, the author not only wrote about the hardships of the birth of a child, but also wrote about the dribs and drabs of the child's growth and the happiness and comfort of being a mother. Calm and indifferent talk can make readers feel the selflessness and greatness of maternal love. Compared with male writers, female writers unconsciously care about everything around them, which is an instinct of women. In The First Snow, Zhang Xiaofeng, as a mother, showed this instinct incisively and vividly. "Because of you, I love all mankind, even those golden chickens and even those wobbly puppies. They make me feel bad." When Zhang Xiaofeng saw the Japanese sitting in the yard staring at the first snow, her first thought was children. In Zhang Xiaofeng's eyes, children are the first snow. "At that time, I thought of you, poetry, and you are the first snow in our lives. Pure and noble, deeply shocked me. Those awe and love for life often make me cry silently. " ⑸
In the work Nv Jiao, the author extracts several fragments from her daughter's growing process. Although they are trivial things, the lines are full of love for their daughters. In this article, the author's joy and joy at her daughter's growth are vividly on the paper. She believes that the greatest pride in life is the growth of her little daughter, who is like a chicken spreading her wings and flying freely in the sky with her parents.
In Xu Shilin's Monologue, Originally, I wanted to fall down first, Mom, I love your feet and other works, Zhang Xiaofeng showed readers the children's deep attachment and love for their mothers with delicate pen and ink and sincere feelings. In the essay "Xu Shilin's Monologue", the author uses the story of White Snake and Xu Shilin, the son of Xu Xian, in the ancient story "The Legend of the White Snake" to pay homage to his mother after he won the top prize in high school, giving full play to his imagination, showing in detail "the human struggle that cannot be covered by swords" and Xu Shilin's mood of paying homage to his mother in the tower. I wrote about the impermanence of human gathering and dispersion, and the shocking feelings of mothers and children. It's so sad to see it! "Children with mothers can listen to their mothers' voices and voices, and children without mothers can follow their mothers to sweep the graves. And I, mother, where can I break the evil spell? " [6] A child without a mother has at least her mother's grave to lean on, and for Xu Shilin, even snuggling in front of her mother's grave is just a distant dream. I believe that the most tragic thing in the world is this! "There will always be poetry books that Qin can't burn, and the tenderness that the French bowl can't cover, mother. Only today's eyes are worth the suffering in countless bones and blood in the past 18 years, mother!" How heartbreaking it used to be! In the article "Originally, I want to fall down first", the author told us a touching story. A mother who was not very clever took her son for a walk and somehow fell down. As a result, her 5-year-old son "mumbled clumsily,' Mom, I think you are going to fall. I'm really worried. I want to fall in front of you first, so that you can fall on me when you fall again. " 6? 1 last name? 6? 1 permeability? 6? 1 Zhou Shuren, a great writer mentioned in the writer, uses the pseudonym "Lu Xun" to express Lu Xun who "converted to his mother's pillow", or the little boy in this story is willing to replace his mother's pain with his small body. We have all read it. Children's love for their mothers is meticulous, and their love touches the corners that mothers can't reach. In "Mom, Mom, I Love Your Feet", the 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter Qingqing pinched the author's toes and shouted happily: "Mom, I love your feet. "Mom, I love your feet" once again shocked the readers-how meticulous and in-depth the child's love for his mother is.
2. Friendship
In Zhang Xiaofeng's prose, there are many articles about friendship. Walking in the Gobi, people who can't join, go home, go up the mountain, faint and so on. Express the pleasure of swimming with friends. . The author cite several examples full of deep affection to describe Yu's personality characteristic: "loneliness" and "deep affection". "His loneliness is a China literati's sad attitude towards tradition, and his deep affection makes him accept every high-spirited life and make him more magnificent and broader." Pet-name ruby and in the "half game" is to mourn the early death of colleagues-Du Hong. After reading the whole article, the brilliant and upright image of Duke Du comes to mind. Just like Du Gong's own elegy before his death: "Although heaven is good, the nation will have a future, but it is better to die first than to suffer, and it is ridiculous to thank the world;" There are many hardships in the world, and life is wasted. What is the benefit of saving? It is shameful to put aside loneliness and weakness and selfishness. " ⑽ The faint but endless sadness in the author's works can't help touching the sad string in the reader's heart.
In Sense of Righteousness, we can see Zhang Xiaofeng's view of friends. In Zhuangzi, it is said that a friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, and a friendship between villains is as sweet as water. I think I want to be both a villain and a gentleman. I even hope my friends do the same. "It is with this concept of friends that Zhang Xiaofeng is always grateful to those friends and teachers who have helped her. She cherishes the most sincere feelings in the world.
3. Love
"Asking what love is in the world makes people commit themselves to life and death", and love is always an indelible topic in literature. Although there is no unforgettable "Where are you going" in Zhang Xiaofeng's works, there are only bits and pieces around him, but it is from these ordinary things that we can no longer see how two sincere hearts are close together and struggle together; It is also from these trivial things that we can't be ordinary that we read the feelings and deep love between our two hearts.
At the other end of the carpet is the author's masterpiece. She described the process of getting to know and falling in love with Professor Lin Zhiping by letter, and every little thing worth remembering. Little things are full of warmth. "I like a humble little room. When it gets dark, I will close the long curtains, turn on the soft lights and enjoy a simple dinner together. " This is the classical romance that many people yearn for. The concept of love in The End of the Carpet and the concept of love embodied in The Tomb of Love come down in one continuous line. The Tomb of Love is not so much a travel prose describing the Taj Mahal in India as a hymn to love. Every part of the Taj Mahal is carefully taken care of by her husband. Why does the prayer tower of the Taj Mahal adopt the outward inclined design? That's because "even if one day, the end of time, the collapse of the tower, will not overwhelm the phase, disturb the beauty's sleep in the mausoleum." Why is the king's tomb slightly off the center line? Humanistic spirit is the call of real human feelings, which earned Zhang Xiaofeng the nickname of "love marathon runner".
Second, patriotic complex.
"Humanistic spirit is an affirmation of human value, an answer to why people are human in theory and practice, a discussion and promotion of human spiritual pursuit, and a' ultimate concern' and conscious dedication to the rise and fall of national culture." 14. Unlike westerners who dare to wander away from home, China people pay more attention to settlement. China people always have a natural attachment to their birthplace and their country. Literati use words to relieve their attachment. Since ancient times, many writers in China have regarded their life's creation as looking for a home and spiritual home where they can settle down. Zhang Xiaofeng is deeply influenced by the traditional culture of China, and her prose is infused with patriotic complex and humanistic spirit.
Zhang Xiaofeng spent his childhood in Chinese mainland and went to Taiwan Province with his parents when he was 8 years old. It should be said that her memory of her old country is hazy, but as long as you open Zhang Xiaofeng's prose collection, you will find that the paper carries a deep homesickness, and anyone will be shocked and sighed by her rich China cultural atmosphere and the complex of home and country with soul and flesh! Although Zhang Xiaofeng's memory of his hometown is vague, Zhang Xiaofeng, who was deeply influenced by China's traditional culture, got an understanding and impression of his hometown from the poem Qin Yue Han Guan in Tang and Song Dynasties.
Just as her husband, Professor Lin Zhiping, knows her, China's blood runs through her body, and her patriotic enthusiasm and sentiment have already been integrated into her warm life. Her works, such as Nostalgia Stone, Contradiction Part II and Bleeding Bones, show her nostalgia for the motherland, anxiety about cross-strait isolation and hope for a better future.
In the article Nostalgia Stone, the author wrote that when he was on vacation in north beach "Ekuma" in Okinawa, Japan, he stood on the beach in the Sea of China and felt homesick for China, which made every Chinese son and daughter feel heartbreaking pain. She said, "They call this sea the Sea of China. No other sea in the world has such a beautiful and gloomy name. When I was a child, I was fascinated by the Aegean Sea and the splendid sunset in my imagination. Now, in this windy afternoon, I only have one love, love the name of my country, and love this blue and almost sad China Sea. " "Looking at the mountains in that area, looking at the homeland that has made the orientals proud for thousands of years, the heart is fragile and thin. At that time, I couldn't help thinking, why am I not a migratory bird? I still remember that before returning to Laoliang in the spring when the grass grows in the south of the Yangtze River, I hate that I am not a fish. I can cry around the beaches and rocky shores of my hometown. " ⒂ In China's classical culture, demoted official culture and exiled poems occupy a place, and Zhang Xiaofeng's attachment to his homeland is actually the inheritance and development of humanistic feelings in China's classical culture.
Zhang Xiaofeng was one of the "mainlanders" who went to Taiwan in the late 1940s. Her roots are not in Taiwan Province province, but in the mainland. She was born in the wartime in China's modern history, and experienced the pain of escape, separation and migration. However, the hardships of times and life did not dull her mind about childhood impressions, on the contrary, she became particularly sensitive. "Breaking the bones" tells us such a sad story of seeking roots. There was an orphan named Wang Yuan in the Tang Dynasty. His father was killed by mutinous soldiers and his bones were abandoned. Wang Yuan grew up to be a teenager, and he decided to find his father's bones and bury them again. He heard that there was such a verification method, that is, dropping his own blood on the bones of the deceased. If it is a parent-child relationship, blood will seep into the bones. On the other hand, it is impermeable. So "from dawn to dusk, he crawled between barren graves", "his whole body was covered with small crevasses, and he became a fountain of blood". He piously took the bone home and reburied it. On the surface, this story tells the story of a little boy named Wang Yuan, the bones of his father, but in a deeper sense, we can easily see that this is Zhang Xiaofeng's "root-seeking" and soul-seeking, and that she is expressing an inextricable old country complex.
Nostalgia has always been an enduring topic in China literature. Zhang Xiaofeng, who lives in Taiwan Province after a long time, has a more natural affinity and identity with China's culture and philosophy than mainlanders. It can be seen from the above example: "Although Zhang Xiaofeng also accepted the influence and edification of western modernist literature, what she read between the lines was the ancient literary thoughts and humanistic spirit of China". ⒅
Third, natural feelings
Xi Murong told Zhang Xiaofeng in "Never hate meeting me late": "I envy the foundation of your Chinese studies, I envy your talent, but what moves me more is your pity." He has religious reverence and gratitude for the universe, nature, mountains and rivers and Zhang Xiaofeng. Zhang Xiaofeng treats everything in the universe with an equal attitude. She always regards herself as a member of nature, feels natural mountains and plants with her pure and beautiful heart, and listens to the sound of flowers and the stretching of grass leaves. In her mind, everything from the sun, the moon and the stars to the dust ants is the embodiment of beauty, and the emergence of spirit has its own life value and unique beauty.
Painting Sunny was written after a long rain. The author spent a happy day in the wild. Under the joy, "there is only one joy between heaven and earth, gentle and full of vitality." Under the pleasure, it is integrated with nature. "I thought I was a cauliflower when I went to the field. When I hold my arms against the wind, I feel like an indirect airflow. I looked up at the sky. Pet-name ruby in the wild, there are white clouds in the sky and green grass underground. Shadow, breeze, flowers and songbirds make up a beautiful and colorful "Sunshine Suburb Map", which expresses love and gratitude for nature in calm and gentle paintings on sunny days. Similar to Painting Sunny is Going Home, which describes visiting and indulging in overlapping mountains in two days, just like "going back to your home", describing green mountains and green waters, chanting the sun and the moon, and throwing yourself into the embrace of nature.
Crows have always been regarded as ominous, but in Zhang Xiaofeng's mind, everything is equal. In the article "Often, I think of that mountain", she praised the crow like this: "The wings are pure black and huge, luxurious and dazzling. They seem to have too much to say, only a long sigh:' Ga-'. This is a hymn of life. In Dipian, the author thinks that "Dilongzi (earthworm) is much cuter and more reliable than Tianlong" and "earthworm is also called Dichan". This guy is actually good at singing. It is hard to imagine that animals living in the soil like plants can sing. However, every quiet evening in the countryside, the earth is a towering tree, with everything, and a loud voice comes. At first glance, I think the earth is also singing the old saying of the beginning of the world. " (2 1) Zhang Xiaofeng has a unique vision, and endowed ordinary life with extraordinary mission and spirituality with her blue heart and kindness.
"Humanistic spirit is not a few points on the plane, just like people talk about ideals, values, ultimate care and moral responsibility; It has a dynamic and three-dimensional development track "(22). "In the modernization period of China, it includes criticizing tradition, reflecting on reality, creating the future, and correctly handling the relationship between man and nature, man and society, and man and himself." (23) Mountains, water, grass, trees, wind, flowers, rain and snow are all very common things in nature, but Zhang Xiaofeng's works are full of aura, which should be attributed to the author's love and gratitude for nature. The author feels nature and life with her pious and sensitive heart. In Zhang Xiaofeng's prose world, we have re-recognized nature, man and the relationship between nature and man.
In a word, Zhang Xiaofeng's prose is full of humanistic spirit. Of course, this paper only discusses the humanistic spirit in Zhang Xiaofeng's prose from the aspects of caring for relatives, friends, nature and the old country. In fact, whether Zhang Xiaofeng taught his son to take responsibility bravely in "The First Poem" or expounded the philosophy of life in "The Remains of Robbery", they all exuded the brilliance of humanism. Today, when the world is getting worse and materialistic, the humanistic spirit of modern people is increasingly lacking. There is no doubt that Zhang Xiaofeng's prose has injected a fresh wind into the spiritual world of modern people.