"Predestined Relationship" Factor in Chinese Modern Literature: Taking Zhang Ailing as the Example
Chen Xu-shi
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Chen Xu-shi
Abstract
The predestined relationship is a subject that writers such as Zhang Ailing from Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School used to depict whereas literati of the elegant literature gave first place to the enlightenment.People seldom showed solicitude for it except little earnest belief of Buddhism writers,because its fatalism goes against the responsibility of writer's enlightenment and national liberation.The predestined relationship came from the fusing of Buddhism and Chinese tradition culture.The writing of Zhang Ailing and others bears on two factors,one was Chinese culture mentality of the predestined relationship,the other was the Ming and Qing Dynasty novels' worldly description of predestined relationship.Cultural psychological alteration restricted predestined relationship writing of modern writers.The predestined relationship had various import in modern writers' works and the narrative pattern also had shaken off the Buddhist inclination.As far as the modern characteristic of predestined relationship description is concerned,the modernity of enlightening writer is the completed modernity,Zhang Ailing and others' is the completing one,one fusing tradition into modernity.
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The predestined relationship is a subject that writers such as Zhang Ailing from Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School used to depict whereas literati of the elegant literature gave first place to the enlightenment.People seldom showed solicitude for it except little earnest belief of Buddhism writers,because its fatalism goes against the responsibility of writer's enlightenment and national liberation.The predestined relationship came from the fusing of Buddhism and Chinese tradition culture.The writing of Zhang Ailing and others bears on two factors,one was Chinese culture mentality of the predestined relationship,the other was the Ming and Qing Dynasty novels' worldly description of predestined relationship.Cultural psychological alteration restricted predestined relationship writing of modern writers.The predestined relationship had various import in modern writers' works and the narrative pattern also had shaken off the Buddhist inclination.As far as the modern characteristic of predestined relationship description is concerned,the modernity of enlightening writer is the completed modernity,Zhang Ailing and others' is the completing one,one fusing tradition into modernity.
Key concepts: Zhàng, Modernity, Enlightenment, Buddhism, Fatalism, Narrative, Literature, Philosophy