How to Realize the Integration of Tradition and Modernity in China Ancient Literature

First of all, literature is constantly developing and advancing, and the main way to develop for learning is retro innovation.

It is old to tradition and new to modern times. In fact, the work of retro innovation has been done by predecessors.

In fact, China's modern literature itself has the shadow of traditional literature, which will inevitably merge in the process of literary evolution.

From the course of modern literature:

China's ancient literature is constantly developing, but it shows the characteristics of abnormal stability and solidification. Compared with western literature, its unity and singleness are quite obvious. This feature is closely related to the historical process of China society. Most of China's literature was produced in the small production soil of feudal society, and almost all of it was developed in a centralized and unified country, emphasizing cultural concepts and strictly controlling them. Therefore, China ancient literature has relatively little contact with foreign literature, and most of the time it is in a closed environment. Except for special historical periods, the relationship with religion is quite sparse in general. This formed the dignified and steady character of China ancient literature. From the second half of19th century to the beginning of 20th century, this character began to break with the great changes in China feudal society. By the middle of Qing Dynasty, most authentic poems in China's ancient literature came to an end because they followed the old art form and lacked new ideological content. After the Opium War, some intellectuals began to realize the economic and cultural weaknesses of their own nation, and an enlightenment school represented by Gong Zizhen and Huang Zunxian appeared in literature. Before and after the Reform Movement of 1898, Liang Qichao, Huang Zunxian and other representatives of bourgeois reformists put forward revolutionary ideas on poetry, literature and novels, demanding "respecting the vernacular and abandoning the classical Chinese", and political novels calling for revolution also emerged one after another, such as Li's The Appearance of Officialdom, Wu Woyao's Strange Bureau Witnessed in Twenty Years, Liu E's Travels of the Old Handicapped, and. At the same time, a group of patriotic poets represented by Liu Yazi and Qiu Jin appeared. Their works of saving the nation from extinction have formed a new literary trend in modern literature. The May 4th New Culture Movement brought China literature into a glorious modern period. Literature in this period has become a conscious, independent and social-oriented art, taking the change of literary language as a breakthrough (using vernacular instead of classical Chinese), it has carried out comprehensive and profound changes in the form, expression and content of literature, produced new poems, essays, novels and dramas different from traditional literature, introduced and created new genres such as prose poems, reportage and film literature, and strengthened the personality, self-awareness and self-awareness of the creative subject. Paying attention to the people's destiny and the people's national destiny, modern democracy and socialist ideological trend have become the ideological basis of the new literary mainstream. National crisis, intellectuals' road, peasants' sufferings, struggle and liberation, and armed struggle are common themes in his works. Writers and readers have more extensive and cordial exchanges, and also absorbed the nutrition of the new trend of world literature more widely. It is through the nationalization of foreign influences and the modernization of literary traditions that new national literature is created and becomes a conscious member of modern world literature. The literature of this period made brilliant achievements, and a number of world writers such as Lu Xun, Guo Moruo and Mao Dun appeared. Luxun's novels and a large number of essays, such as Diary of a Madman, The True Story of Ah Q and Blessing and Medicine, have created the greatest milestone of modern literature in China. Lu Xun was a great standard-bearer of the New Literature Movement in China, and his works had a far-reaching impact on the people of China.

After the founding of New China, on the one hand, China literature inherited the new literary tradition after the May 4th Movement, on the other hand, it showed the characteristics of the times in the new historical period. He combined with the masses in a wider scope and in a deeper degree, actively demonstrated the revolutionary spirit of the people of China in the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle, tried to reflect the new lifestyle of the people of China in the socialist period, and produced a large number of outstanding works with the flavor of the times. After the literary stagnation of the Cultural Revolution, from the late 1970s, China literature took a new turn, a large number of new writers stepped onto the historical stage, the realistic tradition of literature was restored and developed, new artistic forms and methods were explored in many ways, the literary content was deepened to a great extent, and China literature showed a new prosperity. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), due to political and historical reasons, Taiwan Province provincial literature and Hong Kong and Macao literature, as an integral part of China literature, developed relatively independently on another track and contributed to enriching the literary treasure house of the motherland. Since the beginning of this century, the concepts of free writers in China and free literature in China have reappeared, making China literature really blossom and bear fruit.

As can be seen from the above, modern literature is innovative from traditional literature, and it is integrated into the tradition itself. As for the emerging literature, it is bound to be baptized and integrated by traditional literature.

As for how individuals use tradition and modernity, they should learn from tradition. As a China person, you can't get rid of things that are integrated into the culture, and you can't get rid of them. Modern literature should innovate on the basis of the accumulation of traditional literature, get rid of the dross of the two and take the essence of the two. Secondly, it is more important to create something that has the flavor of the times, conforms to the modern rhythm and can touch the hidden meaning of a nation.

Conclusion: it blends with each other in the washing of the times. You will find that tradition and modernity are so organically integrated in how individuals develop and integrate into life. Only by integrating into life can we feel the unique flavor of modernity and the enduring tradition in the long river of time. Both are exactly what literature needs and the answers you need. )