Rational Narrative in 20~(th) Century Chinese Local-Color Novels

The issue of narrative art in 20 th century Chinese local-color novels has become an important one in the research on 20 th century Chinese literature. In the academic circle, there have been different ideas and understanding. When local-color narrative is reconstructed within modern vision, it takes on modern philosophical implication of local-color notions. Modern local-color novels since Lu Xun not only broke the narrative art of the classical novels, but profoundly influencing the development of narratives of 20 th century novels. The process of folk reason participating in local-color narrative is one of constantly identifying and choosing the narrative means. In this process, folk reason is underlying the local-color narrative mode, which is not only conforming to the needs of folk narrative aesthetics, but also presents the structural features of modern narratives.