Righteousness, or "abolitionism", comes from the Latin Decadentia, which originally meant depravity and abolitionism. Decadence is a reflection of European bourgeois intellectuals' dissatisfaction with capitalist society and their inability to resist in the field of literature and art in the second half of the19th century. Oscar Wilde (1854 ~ 1900),/kloc-one of the greatest writers and artists in Ireland (then ruled by Britain) in the 9th century, who is famous for his plays, poems, fairy tales and novels. He is a representative figure of aestheticism and the main force of aestheticism movement in 1980s and decadence movement in 1990s. If it needs to be summarized, it is the decadent Zhou Zuoren created by the times, current situation, opportunities and cultural traditions. Although the abandonment of love almost runs through Zhou Zuoren's main creative life, Zhou Zuoren never considered himself a decadent school. He has two reasons. First, decadence comes from deep thinking about life and life. In this way, metaphysical decadence becomes metaphysical "pre-oscillation". This is what we said in the previous chapter, the difference between the spiritual dimension and the secular dimension of the former. Zhou Zuoren denied his decadence because he wanted to draw a clear line with "excessive fluctuation". Secondly, Zhou Zuoren thinks that his waste consciousness does not come from the west, but from the "small tradition" of China literature. ? The so-called "great tradition"
The difference between "culture" and "small tradition" ("latent culture") is actually the difference between "written history" and "actual history". Small tradition is a subtle attitude towards life preset before civilization, which can neither arouse the sober introspection of the ancients nor get the same attention from the official history. Therefore,
The role of "small tradition" in the process of Chinese civilization is often difficult to match its historical weight.