What is narrative literature?

The pedigree of narrative literature has two starting points, Athens and Jerusalem, which are also the two starting points of western culture. If literature is a tree, culture is a forest composed of many different trees, and it is reasonable that the source of the forest becomes the source of tree growth. Generally speaking, there are two content conditions that constitute narrative literature: a universal individual who is relatively independent of himself, and relatively equal's interpersonal communication. So in this sense, the starting point of narrative literature can only come from the west.

Compared with the West, China in the early East had both literature and occasional narration, but it was difficult to form a pedigree of narrative literature. In the following years, it gradually developed to a considerable scale and was still in a rigid pattern of lack of vitality. There are many individuals in China's literature, but it is difficult to find an independent self. There are people who interact with each other in China's literature, but relatively equal's social elements are rare. Therefore, the individuals in China's literature are always full of complaints or lyricism, which directly leads to the unprecedented prosperity of poetry aesthetics. Even though Jin Ping Mei and A Dream of Red Mansions were produced in narrative literature, they are still full of grievances and feelings, sadness and despair. At the same time, China's narrative literature is also a rigid and dignified ritual state. In this state, there are very few individuals with life consciousness, and the spirit has died before life, so the narrative literature produced can only moan or shout, but lacks the voice with life texture.

Therefore, the achievements of China's ancient narrative literature, however brilliant, have also entered the architectural category of the New Babel, which is easy to understand. There is no God in China's thinking consciousness, and naturally there will be no Babel. But the lack of consciousness of the Tower of Babel does not mean that there is no act of building the Tower of Babel. In fact, China people, including China's ancient narrative literature, have been persistently building their own old Babel. The desire (or dream) of heaven belongs to all mankind. You can give this destination any name, God, heaven, even materialism. There is really no essential difference. The ancient Babel of other nationalities has become a precedent of failure. Why do some people stubbornly continue to build along its drawings This road has proved impassable. Do we have to build it until it collapses?