Lao She: 1899- 1966, originally from Beijinger and Shu Qingchun. China's outstanding contemporary writers. Novels, poems and essays 12, Lao She's humorous poems and essays, and Lao She's plays.
Masterpieces: Ermayina, Divorce, Camel Xiangzi, Four Generations, Crescent Moon, Broken Soul Gun, My Life, Longxugou, Teahouse, etc.
I. Lao She's Personality [Cultural Personality and Artistic Personality]
Lao She is a giant of modern novels and plays in China in the 20th century. His works are one of the most cultural masterpieces and can stand the test of time. Lao She has a very distinctive creative personality and a very unique artistic style.
(A) cool ideological enlightenment
Although Lao She did not directly participate in the May 4th Movement, he repeatedly stressed: Thanks to the May 4th Movement, I became a writer.
First of all, the aesthetic perspective is projected to the civil society in China, from which the civil social psychology accumulated by traditional customs is excavated. It is of outstanding typicality and practical significance to pay special attention to the "China model" with mental illness in civil society around 1930 s and to explore the weakness of national character.
The second is to explore the causes of the formation of national inferiority from many aspects and complete multiple criticisms of national character, its historical reasons and social status quo. Lao She vividly explored the spiritual connotation and main source of disease of national character with all his creations. Summary: Explore the causes of national inferiority and make multiple criticisms.
Literature carries ideological enlightenment, and the theme of ideological enlightenment deepens the ideological connotation of literary works and enhances their aesthetic and artistic strength. Camel Xiangzi, known as the "most Lao She", would have lost its tragic power if it had not portrayed Xiangzi, an individual worker from the countryside, and if it had not been criticized by the writer for his sympathy and anxiety about these mental weaknesses. Abstract: The ideological enlightenment of literature can enhance the ideological connotation of works.
(B) a firm cultural critic
1, Lao She is good at criticizing traditional culture from the macro perspective of comparing Chinese and western cultures and comparing old and new civilizations, and excavating national inferiority.
The British novel Two Horses reveals the weakness of national character and the deficiency of traditional culture in the comparison between Chinese and English cultures, and raises the banner of cultural criticism.
2. Build a complete, clear and powerful cultural criticism system with creation, firmly grasp the epitome of feudal traditional culture-Beiping culture, and dissect the root of social ills from the perspective of ideological revolution. Beiping culture is a desert culture, which can only breed docile character and servility. It includes three parts: traditional scholar-bureaucrat culture (power), foreign colonial culture (money) and folk culture.
(3) the depressed "citizen poet"
Through the excavation of Beiping's civil society, it has reached a certain degree of artistic generalization of national character and destiny and a certain revelation of the essence of the times.
Divided into old-school citizens, foreign citizens, ideal citizens and bottom citizens.
Criticize the great inertia and negative effects of traditional culture.
Ideal citizen: praising the excellent side of traditional culture.
Foreign citizen: a pathological figure produced when foreign culture collides with traditional culture.
People at the bottom: express sharp social criticism and place deep sympathy and sigh on the author.
Rich "Beijing flavor heart". Write about festivals and customs in Beijing. The dislocation of customs and national consciousness. In the era of four generations living under one roof, this custom ironically became a symbol of the loss of national consciousness and the collapse of internal cohesion. This is Lao She's unique artistic vision, and also the depth that Lao She has reached as a civil society performer and critic.
(D) pessimistic "humor master"
Humor, as Lao She's personality temperament and artistic style, plays an important role in his whole creation. A tearful smile.
The reasons for Lao She's humor are: First, influenced by Dickens and other foreign writers; The second is "half hate and half smile to see the world". Thirdly, Lao She, the son of the Banner, lives in the Banner community where popular folk literature and art are widely popular, and is deeply influenced by humorous thinking.
Lao She experienced ups and downs and explorations, from Divorce to Camel Xiangzi, Four Generations under One Family, and even his plays Longxugou and Teahouse after the founding of the People's Republic. Lao She's humor matures with the whole creation reaching its peak. His humor contains indelible color of pessimism and despair and bitter taste.
Lao She used the original Beijing dialect, which combined humor, narration and lyricism into one furnace, showing no craftsmanship. Lao She's constant exploration, development and creation of modern vernacular literature language won him the reputation of "master of language".