现代化语境下生存的博弈与反思——论周大新小说中民间艺人群像的社会意义

Game and reflection on survival in the context of modernization——On the social significance of folk artists’ group images in zhou daxin’s novels

周大新是当代“文学豫军”中重要成员,在他笔下塑造了一系列的民间手艺人形象,表传达出对传统文化和当下底层大众的双重关怀与思考。从丝绸织造到铁锅生产再到玩猴和做冥宅,家族技艺和工匠精神的传承从最初的安身立命之本逐渐成为了一代又一代人身上的负累,他们在对传统技艺的守护中默默奉献和牺牲,生命应有的飞扬在对家族事业的守望中被无情压制,从而无法自主选择自己的生活和理想。而另一方面则是在现代化浪潮下,传统技艺所负载的精神价值不断被削减甚至无视,技艺本身的市场价值得以被放大,而手艺人在市场的角逐中对金钱的过度崇拜使得传统亲情和人伦被无情践踏,周大新也正是由此开启了他对于现代性的反思。

zhou daxin is an important member of the contemporary "literary henan army". He created a series of handicraft images in his works, which expressed the double care and thinking of the traditional culture and the masses at the bottom of the society. From silk weaving to wok production to play and monkey do ghost house, family art heritage from the original living need to become the burden of the generation after generation, they in guard skills constantly dedication of his own life, the life of self in the implementation of family business has been deprived of autonomy, unable to choose their own life and ideal. On the other hand, under the wave of modernization, the negative side of traditional skills is gradually revealed, and the market value of skills is magnified. The excessive worship of money by craftsmen in the market competition makes traditional family affection and human relations be trampled ruthlessly, which also starts the reflection on modernity.