Why didn't root-seeking literature last long before it died out? What is the reason?

Root-seeking literature is a literary form with the theme of "cultural root-seeking". In the mid-1980s, there was an upsurge of "cultural root-seeking" in China literary world. Writers began to explore traditional consciousness and national cultural psychology, and their creation was called "root-seeking literature". 1985, Han Shaogong took the lead in proposing in a programmatic paper "The Roots of Literature": "Literature has roots, and the roots of literature should be deeply rooted in the cultural soil of national traditions." He proposed to "transcend the real world and base on reality at the same time, revealing some mysteries that determine the development of the country and the survival of mankind." Under this theory, writers began to create, which is called "root-seeking school" in theoretical circles.

"Root-seeking literature" has undoubtedly played a certain role in promoting the inheritance of traditional culture in China. At the same time, many root-seeking writers absorbed modernism and even postmodernism in their creation, which made great contributions to the development of China literature itself. However, root-seeking literature also has a tendency of "retro", which is obviously complicated and obscure in ideological tendency and value evaluation. Most writers tend to grasp some folk customs and deliberately exaggerate them, while ignoring the true anatomy of "nationality". Dive into the distant, primitive and wild, lacking the guiding significance for contemporary life. Ignoring the revelation of life problems and contradictions in real society leads to the alienation of works from contemporary reality, which leads to the decline of "root-seeking literature" a few years later. Although the root-seeking literature is only the "flower in the county" in the history of China literature, it gradually declined from 65438 to 0987. But after all, it is like a meteor, which once cut through the vast night sky of literature in the middle and tenth centuries and completed the romantic exploration of the vast universe of literature.