May Fourth Writers＇ Reconstruction of Traditional Chinese Literary Classics  

作　　者：He Zhongming 

机构地区：[1]Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Ji'nan University

出　　处：《Social Sciences in China》2017年第2期144-164,共21页中国社会科学（英文版）

摘　　要：The classics are at the heart of traditional literature, and play an important role in its transmission. May Fourth writers did not totally reject traditional literary classics; rather, they selectively preserved and reinterpreted them, setting up a new canon based on the criteria of evolution, humanism, human relationships, popular culture, etc. To a certain extent, the May Fourth reconstruction of the classics inherited late Qing thought and views of literature, but it was more of an embodiment of new intellectual horizons; a modem spirit acting through the rediscovery and recreation of traditional literature. The reconstruction of the classical canon revealed a close connection between the New Literature and traditional literature, thereby effectively facilitating the acceptance of New Literature by the masses. It also provided writers with national resources for literary creation, thus preventing New Literature from descending to nihilistic understanding of Chinese tradition. This mode of discovering and creating the modem while being rooted in their native soil enabled such writers to step out of the binary opposition between ＂making China Western＂ and ＂Sinicizing the West,＂ and thus has methodological significance for the relation between Chinese and Western cultures from the late Qing on. Literary classics have a profound meaning for writers＇ creations and for literature and cultural tradition. Despite its shortcomings, the May Fourth reconstruction of the traditional classics can inspire us even today.经典是传统文学的核心部分，在文学传承中起着重要作用。五四作家对传统文学经典不是全盘否定，而是有所保留和选择，更以进化、人性人情和民间等标准，重释和建构了一批新的经典作品。五四时期的经典重构对于近代思想和文学观有所继承，但更体现了新的思想视野，是现代精神对传统文学的再度发掘和创造。经典重构为新文学寻找到与传统文学的密切关联点，有效促进了新文学被大众接受，并给作家提供了民族化的创作资源，从而使新文学避免走向对民族传统虚无化的道路。这种立足于本土去发现和创造现代的方式，走出了“西化”与“化西”的二元对立，在近现代中西文化关系中具有方法学的意义。文学经典对作家创作、文学和文化传统意义都是深远的，五四时期的传统经典重构尽管也有缺陷，但在今天仍富有重要的启示意义。

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