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Based on the history of Wali town in Jiaodong from land reform to reform and opening up for more than 40 years, The Ancient Boat tells the feud between Sui, Zhao and Li, and truly reproduces the distortion and alienation of human nature in that special era and the changes of that land under the impact of the reform tide.

The works express the plight and struggle of the soul through the vicissitudes of the family, and reflect the whole historical process of China with the history of an ancient town. It is "a heavy stone in the history of national mind."

The Ancient Ship is a novel by Zhang Wei with profound historical and cultural connotations. This paper describes the ups and downs, joys and sorrows of several families in Wali Town, Luqinghe, Jiaodong for more than 40 years, and truly reproduces the distortion of human nature in that special era and the changes of that land under the impact of the reform tide. It is one of the most powerful and profound literary masterpieces in contemporary China.

It is "a heavy stone in the history of national psychology". It maps the whole China with an ancient town, symbolizes endless life with a river, and expresses the plight and struggle of the soul with the vicissitudes of a family. The author outlines all beings with delicate and affectionate brushstrokes, and his words are profound and infectious. "Ancient Ship" won important awards such as Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award and People's Literature Award.

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The creative background of the ancient ship:

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". Cultural root-seeking consciousness includes three aspects: first, re-understand and interpret national cultural materials in the sense of literary aesthetics, and explore its positive cultural core.

Second, appreciate the heritage of ancient culture in the way that modern people feel the world, and find the source to stimulate life energy; Third, continue to criticize the ugly cultural factors in contemporary social life, such as the deep excavation of the deep structure of national cultural psychology. But these aspects are not absolutely separated, and many works comprehensively express the meaning of "seeking roots".

On the whole, the literary proposition of the "root-seeking school" is that it hopes to base itself on China's own national soil, excavate and analyze the national bad habits, carry forward the excellent elements in the cultural tradition, grasp our nation's way of thinking, ideals and value standards from the cultural background, and strive to create literature with real national style and style.

Although under the banner of "cultural root-seeking", these root-seeking writers can't agree on what "culture" is. Most writers choose a region that they are most familiar with as the basic point of cutting into the cultural level. Zhang Wei, on the other hand, chose her familiar countryside as the background and made a trip to find the roots of rural culture.

Looking back at history, we can clearly find that every period of social change is also a period of people's thinking change, and conservatism and doubts arise accordingly. In a sense, any social transformation or turbulence will awaken intellectuals and recast their values. Just as Jaspers described people's mental state after World War I.

In the 1980s, China also faced the impact of social changes-of course, this impact mainly refers to the cultural and spiritual aspects. When the central values and standards of society have collapsed, many people inevitably fall into inescapable nothingness and pain in the face of the "nameless" era.

Intellectuals, as cultural elites, have a real pain, especially compared with others. They either stick to tradition for the safety of their souls, or seek new beliefs and values with new courage, or lament the death of their souls with despair.

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