What are the characteristics of Han Shaogong's works?

In the view of a group of "root-seeking literature" advocates represented by Han Shaogong, China's traditional culture can be divided into "normative" and "non-normative". They think that what needs to be affirmed and carried forward in traditional culture is more "non-standardization", which exists in unofficial history, legends, border customs, Taoist thoughts and Zen philosophy, just as Acheng described in the series of Three Kings. However, the institutionalized "normative" culture with Confucianism as the core holds the attitude of rejection, negation and criticism. Compared with the Three Kings series' obsession with the essence of traditional culture, Daddy Daddy and Daughter Country, with a strong sense of "seeking roots", explored the restriction of cultural norms on free life, tortured the degenerate form of human life and human civilization from the origin to the end in the "normative" state, discovered the inertia and stubborn national inferiority in human nature, and also completed a criticism of traditional culture.

Han Shaogong's novella "Daddy Daddy" describes the historical changes of a primitive tribe-Jitouzhai by means of symbols and fables, showing a closed, stagnant, ignorant and backward national cultural form. The work takes the idiot Bingzai as the protagonist. Through his description, he outlined some abnormal and morbid ways of thinking about traditional culture, and expressed the writer's profound reflection and criticism on traditional culture. Han Shaogong dissected the ancient, closed and almost primitive cultural inertia through Daddy Daddy, which obviously showed a negative and critical attitude towards traditional culture. Han Shaogong is basically a realistic writer. However, due to his admiration for the witch culture of Chu and the romantic tradition of Lisao, while examining the national inferiority with a strong sense of hardship, he revived the mysterious mythological meaning in Chu culture with artistic means such as fables and symbols, which painted the text with a romantic and mysterious color and left people with endless aftertaste and thinking. As we said, "root-seeking novels" mostly adopt a seemingly traditional and realistic narrative style, but "Daddy Daddy" adopts an absurd "fable style", which may be an exception.