What is the historical and cultural connotation of Wang Meng's active adult?

Activity Becoming Human is an excellent novel written by Wang Meng in 1980s. With a strong sense of hardship, the writer made vivid thinking and profound reflection on the 5,000-year-old traditional civilization, the confrontation between Chinese and Western cultures, history, humanity and intellectuals. With text analysis as the main means, this paper combs, analyzes and explains the multicultural themes contained in the novel, with a view to comprehensively and deeply excavating the historical and cultural implications of the novel. The thesis is divided into three parts: introduction, text and conclusion. The introduction briefly introduces the present situation of Wang Meng's novel creation and research, and leads to the topic, content and significance of the paper. The text explores the historical and cultural implications of the text from the life experience and fate tragedy of the protagonist Ni Wucheng, and analyzes the historical and cultural factors that caused Ni Wucheng's tragic fate from three aspects: the accumulation of traditional culture, the conflict between Chinese and Western cultures and the persecution of living environment. People think that Ni Wucheng can represent the embarrassing situation of China intellectuals between western civilization and traditional civilization in the 20th century. Wang Meng, an intellectual who pursued western bourgeois civilization in China, never found his place in the special historical environment of modern China. He struggled painfully in the intersection and collision of Chinese and western cultures, and gradually became a "superfluous man" tragedy, vividly showing the difficulty of the integration of Chinese and western cultures in modern society and the mental pain he brought to people. Through the image of Ni Wucheng, Wang Meng not only pointed the edge of aesthetic criticism at the dark forces in old China; It not only points to the congenital deficiency of Ni Wucheng's own character; But also points to the eastern culture that can't find the intersection with modern industrial civilization and the western culture that can't find a foothold in China's concrete reality. Wang Meng portrayed many intellectuals such as Ni Wucheng, Ni Zao and Zhao Shang in his novels. Through the analysis and comparison of their cultural mentality, values, behaviors and ways of thinking, this paper reveals Wang Meng's understanding, performance and significance of intellectual personality construction. Wang Meng not only vividly depicts the cultural characteristics of morbid intellectuals in the intersection of Chinese and western cultures, but also carefully analyzes the innate inferiority of intellectuals. He also deeply explored the cultural roots that caused intellectuals' morbid personality, and revealed the cannibalistic nature of feudal culture that stifled life and soul. Wang Meng examines the personality of intellectuals from a cultural perspective, aiming at transforming morbid intellectuals and promoting them to have a sound and independent personality. This desire for self-correction reflects Wang Meng's sense of national hardship, strong sense of historical mission and social responsibility as an intellectual. On the one hand, this desire is reflected in the positive criticism of the inferiority of intellectuals like Ni Wucheng and Zhao Shang, and on the other hand, it is reflected in the construction of negative models. The book Activity Becomes Man not only denies and criticizes the inferiority of intellectuals, but also constructs an ideal personality in this criticism, which constitutes its own integrity. Finally, the paper discusses Wang Meng's historical consciousness and its concrete embodiment in "being an active person" by analyzing the characteristics of family narrative and the perspective of "judging his father". In short, "activities become people" has rich historical and cultural implications. It is Wang Meng's insight after a long and profound study of the history and culture of the Chinese nation, and it is his "national self-criticism book published under the new historical conditions".