Zhou Wen was born in xingjing county in the ya'an region of present-day Sichuan Province, which is the transition zone from the Sichuan basin to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, spanning the two major terrain areas of the Sichuan Basin and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the mountain ranges in the area are longitudinal and horizontal, mainly mountainous, and the northwest of Xingjing is the Daxue Mountain and the Folding Mountain, which has belonged to the borderland since ancient times, the news is blocked, the traffic is inconvenient, it is bordered with Tibet and Liangshan, and the Han, Tibetan, Yi, Qiang and other ethnic groups live and interact, and the mountain people are brutal and rough, and believe in ghost and magic.
Zhou Wen, who grew up in this geographical environment, lost his father at the age of 6, spent a poor childhood, and at the age of 16, because of his life, he was forced to work as a clerk in a warlord unit living in Xikang, and accompanied the army to the border of Chuankang, so that he not only had more contact with the rural society of Chuankang, but also witnessed the barbarism, cruelty, and ruin of the rural world of Chuankang, but also experienced the difficult and tragic life of the mountain people;
At the same time, in the 1920s, when the Warlords of Sichuan were at the peak of the division of territory and the years of chaos, Zhou Wen, who was in the warlord army, witnessed the crimes of the warlord troops bullying the people and abusing the soldiers, the tyranny of the warlords fighting each other for territory, and the intrigue and corruption within the warlords. All these actual sins and sufferings left a heavy memory of hurt and pain in Zhou Wen's soul. He said, "Like a demon, he clutches my brain at all times, eats at my heart, and reproduces in my dreams the unpleasant signs of the past." ”
His grief and indignation about the darkness of society and his sadness about the helplessness of life are all stored on the negatives of memory, thus forming the underlying psychology of Zhou Wen's sad gaze to look at Chuan Kang's world social life.
This subconscious mind containing tragic emotions collides with the convergence of suffering and pain with the same connotation in reality, and the tragic consciousness appears in a more obvious and powerful confluence state, and to a certain extent dissolves into the way of thinking and spiritual temperament of Zhou Wen's creation, becoming part of the personality construction of the carry-on load.
Tragic emotions exist in Zhou Wen's latent consciousness, but it is impossible to emerge if the undercurrent of this latent consciousness does not coincide with the homogeneous subjective emotions in the conscious world.
Indignant at the darkness of his hometown, Zhou Wen decided to walk out of the mountains of Chuankang, hoping to find a bright future in the world outside Sichuan. So he said that at that time "drifting was a very inflammatory word for me",[2]
However, Zhou Wen, who was far away from his homeland and escaped from remoteness and isolation, came to the city often in the torment of unemployment and hunger, and because of the poverty of life, he had a serious lung disease, and everything in the city was so strange, so indifferent, so cruel, and the wandering and penniless poverty were bound to be cold-eyed and disdained in the old Chinese cities where money and wealth were measured by human values.
Carrying the double sorrow of being far away from his homeland and the embarrassment of life, Zhou Wen had to turn his eyes to the old garden to find spiritual comfort and sustenance, but the real old garden- Chuankang Borderlands was already dilapidated and disappointing, and the cruelty of reality did not allow them to return to Chuankang, when he calmly examined the Sichuan Kang homeland where he grew up in Si, looking back at his hometown life, all kinds of backward, dull, miserable, barbaric, and ignorant scenes came into view, which was a barren mountain ridge with poor materials, a hell of the human spirit. This feeling became Zhou Wen's "a terrible burden." The thought of "annoyance" and "pain",[3]
So reason triumphed over feelings, tragic consciousness as the result of rational cultural thinking and entered Zhou Wen's traumatic thinking, under the inducement of this tragic consciousness, Zhou Wen paid attention to the living environment and living conditions of people in Chuankang area in a tragic aesthetic way, and vividly expressed the poverty and backwardness, barbarism and darkness of Chuankang, and the misfortune and suffering of the people who lived in it, so that his creation was always surging with a tragic emotion externalized from tragic consciousness.
At this point, we have clearly sorted out the tragic emotions such as sadness, grief, and sadness that arose from Zhou Wen's misfortune from his family road, from military experience to his wandering career in a foreign land, which always lingered back in his emotional world, so that his emotional tendencies in the creative process and the potential tragic emotions in the depths of consciousness converged with each other, so as to pay attention to aesthetic objects in a tragic aesthetic way, and present a distinct tragic network in the novels of the Chuankang world he created.