What are the traditional cultural characteristics of Zhang Henshui's novels?

(A) the traditional cultural characteristics in the works

As a master of popular novels, Zhang Henshui's works have strong traditional cultural characteristics. Zhang Henshui's novels are deeply rooted in the rich aesthetic genes of the Chinese nation and integrated with the aesthetic factors of China's traditional popular novels. Its appearance is the inevitable trend of the development of China's ancient novels. Although ancient myths and legends have simple aesthetic forms and immature aesthetic methods, all popular literature, including modern popular literature, has a continuous aesthetic origin with them. Although Zhang Henshui's novels have improved in aesthetic form and way, the basic form and way have not changed. For example, Fan Jiashu's four-corner love affair with Shen Fengxi, He Lina and Guan Xiugu in Crying Cause is full of legend and makes people feel ridiculous. The love between Leng Qingqiu and Jin Yanxi in "Golden Powder Family" also gives readers unlimited aesthetic interest and fun in vivid and tortuous stories.

(2) As a traditional scholar, Zhang Henshui naturally has rich traditional ideological characteristics. He was deeply influenced by the traditional culture of China since the Enlightenment. When he was a teenager, he was familiar with the books of Confucius and Mencius, which formed the orthodox Confucian cultural psychology and became his personality pillar. The influence of Confucianism made him adhere to Confucian ethics. He regards moral cultivation as the foundation of "establishing a person" and "establishing a country", and regards "filial piety" and "loyalty" as the minimum morality of being a person. His personality temperament is directly related to the moral creed of "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, faithfulness and harmony" advocated by Confucianism, and some personality characteristics of the protagonist in his works have become the most vivid annotations of his personality characteristics.

(3) Traditional Buddhism and Taoism

Traditional Buddhism and Taoism is the cultural feature of Zhang Henshui's important tradition. We can see that he transcends real life with the help of Buddhism, relieves inner pain and seeks spiritual harmony.