Papa Papa is the work of

Papa Papa is a middle grade novel by Han Shaogong, and one of his most famous works in more than three decades.

Han Shaogong's middle grade novel Papa Papa shows a closed, stagnant, ignorant, and backward form of national culture by depicting the historical changes of a primitive tribe, the Jitouzhai, in a symbolic and allegorical way.

The work takes the idiot Bing Zai as the main character, and through the portrayal of him, some perverted and morbid ways of thinking about traditional culture are outlined, expressing the writer's profound reflection and criticism of traditional culture. c Zai Zai is a little old man who is "aging before he grows old" but never "grows up". "He is a little old man who never grows up. His appearance is strange and obscene, and he can only say two words over and over again: "Papa, Papa, Papa" and "X, Mama". However, such a irrational, inarticulate, confused characters, but by the chicken head of the village of all the villagers worship, worship as yin and yang divination, honored as "Lord C", "uncle C", "immortal C ". Therefore, C-cub, which lacks normal thinking, is showing the pathological mental symptoms of villagers' ignorance and lack of rationality. After the battle of Cocktail Cottage and Cocktail Cottage, most of the men died, but Bing Chai still stubbornly survived. This never-growing-up image symbolizes the stubbornness, ugliness and irrationality of life. His two prophetic phrases contain both the most primitive and basic form of human life creation and continuation, and the mysterious meaning of individual life being closely linked to traditional culture. At the same time, they imply that the absolute "dichotomy" mode of thinking in traditional culture, which has long influenced and constrained the progress of human civilization, will never change.

Through Papa Papa, Han Shaogong dissects the ancient, closed, almost primitive cultural inertia, clearly demonstrating his negative and critical attitude toward traditional culture. Han Shao Gong basically belongs to the realist writers, but because of his respect for the Chu witch culture and the romantic tradition of "Li Sao", while examining the inferiority of the nation with a strong sense of anxiety, he resurrected the bizarre, mysterious and magnificent mythological meanings of the Chu culture with the help of fables, symbols and other artistic means, so that the text is coated with romantic and mysterious colors, which leaves people with endless recollections and reflections. As we have said, most of the "root novels" use the traditional realistic narrative style, while "Papa Papa" uses the absurd "allegory", which may be an exception.