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Throughout today's era of globalization, both at home and abroad
Literature is a special form of creation of human spiritual activities, which records and expresses people's persistent pursuit of the perfect form of life and the ideal way of life. The aesthetic spirit contained in the classic works of any nation is in fact closely related to its sense of existence of life and human nature, and after generation after generation of inheritance, continuation, and the formation of a nation's unique aesthetic stereotypes, which is the traditional culture to provide the descendants of the invaluable spiritual wealth, in the process of historical development, these spiritual wealth for the boosting of the national vitality of the immersion of the huge role it teaches people to In the process of historical development, these spiritual treasures have played a great role in promoting the vitality of the nation, which teaches people virtue, goodness and beauty, cultivates people's temperament, and shapes the cultural character and spiritual temperament of the nation.
The traditional literary classics of the past and present, both ancient and modern, are often permeated with the rhythm of human vitality and national soul. For example, the classics of traditional Western literature, whether ancient Greek myths or epic poems and dramas, show a strong tragic quality: limited life to resist infinite hardship and suffering, in a short life to stimulate the potential of life, to maximize access to and show the value and meaning of human beings, in the process of fighting against the doom and gloom, bursting out of the blazing and flashing out of the human courage, wisdom and glory. It praises life, promotes individuality, and sparkles with passion and vigor everywhere. Similarly, ancient Chinese aesthetics is also an important part of traditional Chinese culture, with rich and diverse forms, mapping out the various aspects of the Chinese nation's mind: robustness and upward mobility, virtue, self-improvement, punishing evil and promoting goodness....... These basic values of Chinese culture are shown in traditional aesthetics through the writing of the realm of personality, through the These basic values of Chinese culture are shown in traditional aesthetics through the writing of character realm, expressed in classical works that condense the essence of traditional aesthetics, and conveyed through a series of characters embodying the spirit of these traditional aesthetics, which have influenced and touched readers and audiences from generation to generation and have made the humanistic connotation and spiritual value of traditional aesthetics play its due role in modern society. Classical Chinese works also celebrate and promote the spirit of tragedy. Tragedy is constituted by those characters who represent the interests and feelings of the general public, and who suffer or sacrifice themselves in the struggle against the rule of dark forces. Lu Xun believes that "tragedy is the destruction of that which is valuable for people to see", in the traditional Chinese value system, "valuable" in fact, most of them belong to the category of truth, goodness and beauty, so in short, the tragedy is the destruction of beauty. In this way, we find in the tragedies of classical Chinese literature that the protagonists are often ordinary people or even lower-class characters, but they are full of great spiritual strength, in order to achieve certain ideals and causes, and the powerful forces of darkness to fight persistently, self-improvement, until the sacrifice of their precious lives, which is a kind of heroic and unyielding spirit, which embodies the virtues that have been accumulated in the traditional culture of a nation: valor, loyalty, kindness and respect for the noble and noble. The spirit is a spirit of bravery, which embodies the virtues accumulated in the traditional culture of a nation: bravery, loyalty, goodness and the relentless pursuit of high ideals.
An important reason why a work can become a classic is that its connotation is transcendent and universal. In different times, the story of the twists and turns of the composition, the fate of the characters will reflect the specific era of the environment and social consciousness, reflecting the author's perspective on social observation, thinking and interpretation, but the most important and valuable, but in the process of development and evolution of the preservation of those constant internal factors, which are the composition of the cultural character of a nation and the spirit of aesthetics and to lay down the value of its fundamental These factors are the fundamental elements that constitute a nation's cultural character and aesthetic spirit and lay down its values. Values are both epochal and historical, and those values that have been practically proven to be reasonable will be passed on from generation to generation in social life and remain in people's concepts for a long time. Therefore, once the values transcend the limitations of the subject matter itself and reveal the universal connotation of a certain life, the work has a classic nature, as Hegel said, "the true duty of art is to help people realize the highest interest of the heart. The works that can be circulated for a long time and are popular must have the meaning of transcending time and space, which can not make the readers have a divide because of the long time, nor alienate people from each other because of the different classes of the audience.
Of course, the traditional culture of any ethnic group contains both progressive and negative elements. Since the recipients have different cultural backgrounds and ideological concepts, they may choose or accept either side of the factors, either progressive or negative, so how the traditional classics are understood and interpreted in the contemporary society is closely related to the interpreter's humanistic vision, spiritual subject matter and values. Therefore, we can see the different attitudes of the interpreters towards the classics. For example, in the film and television adaptation of Dream of the Red Chamber, some interpreters, in order to fully grasp and reproduce the spirit of the original work, let all the participants first study the original work for three years; some interpreters have a casual attitude, creative and whimsical, and in order to show Lin Daiyu's "icy purity", they even deal with her death as a nude death, which is not respecting the classic original work at all. This is totally disrespectful to the original classics. I do not advocate that the traditional classics must follow suit, but I hope that the interpreters can maintain a respect for the original classics, treat Chinese historical and cultural customs and classical aesthetic paradigm, otherwise, it is difficult to cause due aesthetic **** Ming. For example, "Journey to the West", the initial screen image is to highlight the human nature through the divinity, and thus the series of images of the Tang Monk and his disciples are friendly and lovely, and feel very close to us; due to the increase in the number of remakes and re-makes, the interpreters have started to make new innovations and show their own skills, and with the injection of capital, the film and television technology is advancing more and more, and is able to show more and more richness in the spatial dimensions for the audience to provide more and more realistic visual images, and the world of gods and fantasy is becoming more and more fantastic. The world of fantasy is also more and more fantastic, but it feels that these dazzling performance and literary classics in the heavy traditional connotations are also gradually far away ...... Especially some books and network literature, and even directly to many literary classics tampered with the face, a mess, and ultimately spoiled into vulgar and unpleasant farce and laughing stock. In the meantime, the character image was completely inverted, the main spiritual value was completely deconstructed, this worrying phenomenon, reflecting not only the traditional culture and literary classics are facing the dilemma of being denied and deconstructed, but also the core values of the community are facing the collapse of the collapse of the harbinger of the collapse of the core values of the community.
This chaotic phenomenon of parodying, eliminating, dismantling and subverting literary classics at will is also evident in Western societies, where Hollywood is very good at creating bizarre and varied fashion hotspots in the shells of literary classics, and packages up a wide range of strange cultural consumer goods. In order to exchange for considerable box office value, they can use all kinds of modern high-tech means to the unimaginable extreme, in the process of rewriting to the entertainment, the game for the pursuit of the goal, this post-modern self-centered cultural "trend-setter", never consider the cultural traditions and the classic works of respect and treatment of the issue of good.
It is normal that the same classic work of literature will produce far different or even very different and distinct aesthetic feelings among different appreciators or adapters, for various reasons, including the complexity of the content of the work itself, but also the inextricable links with the knowledge accumulation, life experience and aesthetic interests of the interpreters and readers, as Lu Xun said: As Lu Xun said, "Life is different because of the author, and works are different because of the readers". In recent years, with the rapid development of information technology and its means of communication, people's lifestyles have undergone rapid changes, and at the same time, social values, modes of thinking, cultural trends, aesthetic fashion, and so on, there have been striking changes, and the field of literature and art has also presented a complex and diverse state of affairs, but the overall trend is to cut down on the depth of the subversion of the significance of the entertainment function, the literary works of flat, shallow reading style. The overall trend is to reduce depth, subvert meaning, and emphasize the entertainment function of literary works, and the trend of planarization and shallow reading has become more and more obvious, making it more and more difficult for most people to read, understand, and absorb the classics. In such a fashionable cultural environment, the negative phenomenon is not surprising, many works no longer pursue the historical thickness of the spirit and the depth of cultural values, no longer pursue the sublime and meaningful, but to meet and please the public's fashion needs and the reality of the joy of life as the main purpose, resulting in the metamorphosis of the cultural values, and the emergence of a number of groups and individuals lacking in cultural heritage and the minimum standards of value judgment, promoting the liberation of individuality and extreme self-exaltation, as well as the development of the cultural values. Some groups and individuals lacking cultural background and minimum standards of value judgment continue to emerge, advocating the liberation of individuality and extreme self-expression, lacking moral standards and social norms. At the same time, another obvious characteristic in the field of literary and artistic creation is the pursuit of newness, oddity and strangeness, and the entanglement with fashion, which often results in the floating on the surface and the lack of cultural precipitation, leading to people's enthusiasm for fashion, rejoicing in the superficial prosperity of culture and art and ignoring the true meaning of culture and the spirit of aesthetics, and misleading people's spiritual needs, which will, over time, affect the aesthetic fashion and value judgment standards of society, and change a nation's aesthetic and cultural values, and change a nation's aesthetics and aesthetics. In the long run, it will affect the social aesthetic fashion and value judgment standard, and change the traditional aesthetic gene and value orientation of a nation. Abandoning tradition and losing the fundamentals is tantamount to cutting off one's spiritual lifeline. This causes us to think y and worry even more. In such a context, it is obviously necessary to propose a return to the traditional cultural spirit of literary classics.
The proposal to return to the classics is not to deny the artistic concept of contemporary literature, but to hope that our writers and literary artists will read and understand the historical background, cultural heritage, and philosophical connotations of the classics, and take the aesthetic spirit of the classics as a guide, and respect the tradition of literary creativity, so that they can truly understand the closest and most modern things in the classics. Because the classics not only belong to the history of literature, but also have the irreplaceable mirror value for the contemporary history, in this sense, Croce's "all history is contemporary history" can be established. In the dazzling trend and development of the environment, we need to maintain a calm mind, and the value of cultural tradition and the true essence of the classics, rather than blindly dance with the cultural fashion, deliberately pursuing short-term sensational effect, or cater to the public's taste for entertainment, which is precisely the best contemporary promotion of the literary tradition.
Cultural traditions and classic works often present a miniature view of a nation's spiritual wealth and cultural heritage, and classic literary works are the essence and highlights of this miniature view. What attracts and conquers the audience is always the cultural connotation and enduring significance they embody, thus generating their unique vitality, cohesion and appeal. In vigorously cultivating and promoting the socialist core value system and core values, every writer bears a sacred and unshirkable social responsibility and mission of the times, how to inherit and promote the aesthetic spirit of literary classics, undoubtedly become one of the most important tasks in our current literary and artistic creation and research.
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