Professor Chen Zhengui has published 100 books, including "Eighty-Eight Laws of Naming", "Overview of Traditional Chinese Culture", and "Contemporary Children's Literature", including 10 university textbooks.
【Lotus Dian School】 The Lotus Dian School refers to a genre of contemporary literature represented by Sun Li. Lotus Pond is Baiyangdian, the name of this genre, not only from the place of Baiyangdian, but also from Sun Li's short story "Lotus Pond". The works of this school are generally full of romantic atmosphere and optimistic spirit, the language is fresh and simple, the description is realistic, the portrayal is delicate, the lyricism is strong, and the poetry is full of poetry. The "Literature and Art Weekly", which presides over the Tianjin Daily, discovers and cultivates a group of writers represented by Liu Shaotang, Cong Weixi, Han Yingshan, and so on. Representative works include Sun Li's "Mountain Memories" and Liu Shaotang's "Puliu People's Home".
Yam Egg Pie Is one of the modern Chinese novel genres, formed in the 1950s and mid-1960s. Refers to a contemporary literary genre represented by Zhao Shuli. The main writers are Ma Feng, Xi Rong, Li Shuwei, Sun Qian, Hu Zheng, etc., known as "West Li Ma Husun", they are all writers born and raised in the rural areas of Shanxi, and have a relatively deep foundation for rural life. After the mid-1950s, they consciously centered on Zhao Shuli and cultivated and formed a genre with similar styles. Representative works include "Three Mile Bay", "Registration", "Exercise and Exercise", "Uncle Zhao the Breeder", "Three Years Early To Know", "Lai Sister-in-law", "Song Boss Enters the City" and so on.
Scar literature is a literary phenomenon that dominated the literary world in Chinese mainland in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is named after Lu Xinhua's short story "Scars" published in Wen Wei Po on August 11, 1978. In the sense of "reflecting the seriousness of people's internal wounds in their minds" and "calling for the healing of wounds", it was approved by the people who promoted new changes in literature at that time. Subsequently, novels exposing the historical trauma of the "Cultural Revolution" emerged one after another, with greater influences such as "Sacred Mission", "Noble Qingsong", "The Struggle of the Soul", "Dedication", "Marriage" and other Zhiqing creations, from Wei Xi's "Red Magnolia Under the Big Wall" and other large wall literature, as well as Feng Jicai's early artistic achievements in "Scar Literature" with relatively high artistic achievements in "The Wrong Way to Pave Flowers", "Ah! ", Zhou Keqin's "Xu Mao and His Daughters" as the representative of the rural "scar literature" and so on.
【Root-seeking Literature】Root-seeking literature, a literary form with the theme of "Cultural Root-Seeking". In the mid-1980s, a wave of "cultural roots-seeking" arose in the Chinese literary circles, and writers began to devote themselves to the excavation of traditional consciousness and national cultural psychology, and their creations were called "root-seeking literature". In 1985, Han Shaoquan first stated in a programmatic paper "The "Roots" of Literature": "Literature has roots, and the roots of literature should be deeply rooted in the cultural soil of national traditions", and he proposed that we should "transcend the real world while basing ourselves on reality, to reveal some mysteries that determine national development and human survival." Under such a theory, writers began to create, and the theoretical circles called them "root-seeking schools."
Reflective literature, which appeared in the first half of the 1980s, was a literary phenomenon in the literary circles of Chinese mainland. "Reflection" contains multiple meanings such as introspection, review, rethinking, re-evaluation, and doubting previous established conclusions. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, under the influence of the ideological emancipation movement, reflective literature came into being. Reflective literature is the development and deepening of scar literature. The reflective literature of this period is almost all tragic, and the writers pour out the suffering of the people in the tragedy, and concentrate on the reflection on the ups and downs of the nation. Ru Zhijuan's "The Story Of Editing the Wrong Thing" and Zhang Yigong's "Prisoner Li Tongzhong" are among the representative works.
【Reform Literature】 Reform literature appeared after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee at the end of 1978, and its characteristics are that it is very close to real life with the description of social reforms in the new period and the entanglement of characters' fate and interpersonal relations caused by reform as the main content, which is obviously synchronized with history and answers the problems of the times. Representative writers' works: Jiang Zilong's "Qiao Factory Director's Appointment", Zhang Jie's "Heavy Wings", Zhang Xianliang's "Dragon Species".
【Avant-garde Literature】 In the 1980s, writers broke with recognized norms and traditions according to the principle of "continuous innovation", constantly created new art forms and styles, introduced neglected and taboo themes, and challenged the dogmas and beliefs of traditional culture. It expresses new value positions and expressions, and expands the expressiveness of novel art. Representative works ma yuan "Goddess of Lhasa River", Yu Hua "Reality One", Su Tong's "Flock of Wives and Concubines", "Red Pink", Ge Fei's "Lost Boat"
On December 18, 2020, the Ministry of Education announced that Chen Zhengui's "Reading and Guidance of Early Childhood Literature" and "Early Childhood Literature" were selected as the "13th Five-Year Plan" national planning textbooks.
【Zhiqing Literature】 In the literature of the new period, a group of zhiqing writers who were born out of the movement of intellectual youth to the mountains and the countryside during the Cultural Revolution wrote about the works and literary phenomena of zhiqing's life. Characteristics: Multi-directionality of experience and interpretation: scars, reflections, root-seeking stages and theme models: Early: Youth Sacrifice: Suffering - Zhiqing as the image of suffering and suffering; Middle period: Memory reconstruction: Youth without regret - The image of Zhiqing as the embodiment of heroes; Poetic countryside - Zhiqing as an idyllic poet. Later stage: Cultural Roots- Cultural Criticism, Zhiqing as the embodiment of cultural critics. Representative writers and works: Liang Xiaosheng's "This is a Magical Land", Zhang Chengzhi's "Green Night", Shi Tiesheng's "My Distant Qingping Bay", Lu Yao's "Ordinary World".
【Pi Zi Literature】 "Pi Zi" literature was founded in the 1990s, representative writers include Wang Shuo, Shi Kang, Li Silly, etc., and representative works include Wang Shuo's "Air Hostess", "Those Worthless Experiences", and "People Who Are Treated as Ghosts". The main ideas describe the thoughts and behaviors of people at the bottom of society and the attitude of dealing with people, and describe the most common and typical living conditions of people at the bottom, and the contradictions and entanglements of feelings. In ancient times, the word "hooligan" was not pejorative, "rogue" referred to the people, and "hooligan" referred to the homeless or displaced people who had lost their land and homes.
【Absurd Literature】 After the twentieth century in the West, absurd literature appeared, representing beckett, Adamov and Chinese writers: Wei Minglun, Crazy Fox, Gao Xingjian, Ning Caishen, etc., representative works include "Pan Jinlian", "Under the Five Elements Mountain", "Lingshan", "Wulin Wai biography". The most prominent feature of "absurdity" as an artistic means is that the whole is absurd and the details are real. The exaggerated deformation of artistic means is the need of the extreme theme, and the more essential truth is reached through the means of "defamiliarization". It is precisely because the overall plot of the work is absurd, the details are real, and each character must strictly abide by the logic of life that is consistent with his real identity, only in this way can he reveal the paradoxical situation of the essence of life.
[Liberal Literature School] This school appeared at the end of the 20th century, Chinese mainland Zhang Xianliang, Yu Hua, etc. as representative writers, representative works are "Spirit and Flesh" and "Brothers". Writers of this school will easily describe politically repressed and damaged sex as "the moon with eternal reproductive ability, the pure and dripping planet" and other shocking classic artistic atmospheres and languages that are extremely difficult to see. It is worth noting that most of China's contemporary free literary works are difficult to publish and publish in China's official literary magazines and publishing houses, so they are also known as the "underground black gold" of Chinese contemporary literature.
[Obscure Poetry School] Since 1980, a new poetic school has emerged in the poetry world, known as the "Obscure School". A group of young poets with Shu Ting, Gu Cheng, Beidao, Jianghe, etc. as the pioneers, the "Obscure Poetry School" did not form a unified organizational form, nor did it issue a declaration, but it formed a "rising poetry group" with its own independent and common artistic propositions and creative achievements. At first, their poems seemed to inherit the modern or postmodern tradition, but soon they opened up new frontiers, went further, and became a kingdom of their own.
The school appeared in the late 1990s and represented writers such as Liang Wangfeng, Shen Xue, Pi Zi Cai, He Jiangbo, and Han Han. Representative works include "School Informant", "Pawnshop No. 8", "The First Intimate Contact", "Transparent Oil Painting", and "His Country". They express their hearts and emotions through the pen in their hands - that is, through the expression of alternative, rebellious, youthful pain, express their new way of life and ideas, express their understanding of the world.
【Post-80s Writing】 "Post-80s Writing" refers to the writing of young writers born in the 1980s, who appeared in the literary world around the end of the 20th century. Representative writers include Liang Wangfeng, Shen Xue, Pi Zi Cai, He Jiangbo, Han Han and so on. Representative works include: Guo Jingming's "The Edge of Love and Pain", Han Han's "Triple Door"), Xu Jia's "I Love Sunshine") and so on. After entering this century, new works emerge in an endless stream, new people continue to emerge, especially the "New Concept Essay Contest" has been held for several consecutive years, and a group of student writers has been launched, making the "post-80s" literary group more and more spectacular, and its influence inside and outside the literary world is also increasing.
June 12, 2021
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