A Comparative Reading of Fei Ming's Tales in the Bamboo Forest and Shen Congwen's Frontier Town

Both Fei Ming and Shen Congwen are recognized novelists with similar writing style in the modern history of Chinese literature,but they are slightly different from each other in the succession to Chinese traditional culture.There are strong local characteristics and folk details in their writing.However,because of the different living conditions and values,Fei Ming isolated himself in the lonely world of Forest of Bamboo,where he put his mind to Buddhism.On the other hand,Shen Cong-wen proudly set up an ideal world ofFrontier Town,in which he was in pursuit of a spiritual idea of self-loving and loving others.As a result,there appeared some Taoist stylein his writing.Such differences in styles can be seen from both of the novels.