The "Root-seeking" Spirit in Root-seeking Novels

Some "root-seekers" have touched the roots of culture. For example, Chen's White Deer Plain. Although Chen intends to reflect on the dross in traditional culture. However, due to his nostalgia and infatuation with traditional culture, it is doomed that he will sincerely explore the "roots" of the nation today. His description of Bai Jiaxuan's contradictory personality reflects his tendency of "seeking roots". He hopes to find that tough personality and Confucian traditional moral concept and inject a stimulant into the new society. However, the irreconcilable contradiction between traditional high moral standards and human nature is fully revealed in Bai Jiaxuan. Is our image of Bai Jiaxuan positive or negative? To affirm Bai Jiaxuan's tenacious personality charm, it is necessary to admit the legitimacy of his "falsehood", and to affirm his moral requirement is to deny his humanity, which is bound to lead to "falsehood" and Lu Zilin, that is, to advocate finding the dark roots in traditional culture. The antinomy dilemma encountered in the process of "seeking roots" is enough to give a blow to the "seeking roots". They are at a loss themselves. Obviously, "root seekers" need to make major adjustments to the "roots" they are looking for. Only in this way can we grasp the essence of the "root" of national culture from a metaphysical height.

If you look at the "root-seeking" novels without genre significance. In the whole impetuous contemporary literature, they can indeed be called "fine works". On the one hand, they stand out from contemporary novels in the state of "aphasia". It broadens the subject matter that is not very wide, and indirectly gives people confidence, even if this confidence has not been rationally demonstrated, it is difficult to establish. In addition, some artistic images and phonetic tension they created can also be said to be generals in the dwarf, which can be said to be a small climax of contemporary literature, especially in the novel world. Without diachronic analysis and ignoring the relentless washing of time, it is undoubtedly vital to put it in contemporary China literature. There are already many related arguments, so I won't go into details. Obviously, however, the achievements of contemporary China literature can hardly be compared with the world literature.