Han Shaogong's Dad Dad belongs to what period of novels

Papa Papa is a famous middle grade novel by writer Han Shaogong published in 1985, originally published in People's Literature, No. 6, 1985. In a symbolic and allegorical way, Papa Papa demonstrates a closed, stagnant, ignorant and backward form of national culture by depicting the historical changes of a primitive tribe, the Jitouzhai.

Chinese Name: Dad Dad

Author: Han Shaogong

Year: 1985

Genre: Famous Middle Grade Novel

Description: Historical Changes of a Primitive Tribe, Jitouzhai

Language: Chinese

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Synopsis

"Papa Papa" is a short and medium-sized novel by Han Shao Gong, and one of his most famous works from more than thirty years of writing.

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

The main character of the work is an idiot, Cui, and through his portrayal of him, he outlines a certain kind of deformed and pathological way of thinking about traditional culture, which expresses the writer's profound reflection on and criticism of traditional culture. Cub is a little old man who is "aging before he grows old" but never grows up, with a strange and obscene appearance, who can only say two words over and over again: "dad dad" and "x mom". "x-mom". But such a lack of rationality, language, confusion, but the character of the chicken head Zhai all villagers worship, is regarded as the yin and yang two trigrams, honored "C Xianggong", "C grandfather," "C fairy! ". Thus, the lack of normal thinking of the C cub is showing the village people ignorant and lack of rationality of the pathological mental symptoms. After the war between Cocktail Village and Cocktail Village, most of the men died, while C Cub remained stubbornly alive. The image of the man who never grows up symbolizes the stubborn, ugly and irrational nature of life, and his two prophetic catchphrases not only contain the most primitive and basic form of the creation and continuation of human life, with the mysterious meaning of the close connection between individual life and traditional culture, but at the same time, it also implies the absolute "dichotomy" that has long influenced and constrained the progress of human civilization in the traditional culture. At the same time, it also implies that the absolute "dichotomy" way of thinking in traditional culture, which has long influenced and restricted the progress of human civilization, will remain unchanged for a long time.

Han Shaogong dissects the ancient, closed and almost primitive cultural inertia through "Papa Papa," clearly demonstrating a negative and critical attitude toward traditional culture. Han Shao Gong basically belongs to a realistic writer, but because of his respect for the Chu witch culture and the romantic tradition of "Li Sao", while he examines the inferiority of the nation with a strong sense of anxiety, he resurrects the mythological meanings of the Chu culture in the light of strange and mysterious, by means of allegory and symbols and other artistic means, so as to paint the text with romantic and mysterious colors, which leaves people with infinite recollections and reflections. As we have said, most of the "root novels" adopt a seemingly traditional realistic narrative style, but "Dad Dad" uses a similarly absurd "allegory", which may be an exception.

Evaluation of the work

In 1985, Han Shaogong published the middle grade novel Dad Dad, which became a masterpiece of the "literature of searching for one's roots". Han Shao Gong's novel "Dad" shows a picture of human life in childhood. Under the influence of the concept of gods and spirits, this work embodies the mystery, interpenetration, and symbolism of primitive thinking, and its language is characterized by simplicity, immediacy, and figurativeness of primitive language. Han Shaogong's construction of this work with primitive thinking has profound social and historical reasons, the most important of which is the influence of Latin American magical realism. At the same time, the unique creative perspective of this work has contributed to the formation of a pluralistic and open pattern of contemporary Chinese literature.