Cultural Nationality in Landscape Writing——Centered on Mao Dun's Appreciating Landscape and Tribute to the White Poplar
Mao Dun's prose in the liberated areas is characterized by a distinctive epochal nature,in which Appreciating Landscape and Tribute to the White Poplar have become the classics of China's modern lyrical prose.The two articles convey a distinctive political consciousness and the spirit of the times from the metaphors and symbols of the natural scenery,and show the writer's strong sense of revolution and intense patriotism through the portrayal of the natural scenery,which marks the transformation of China's modern lyrical prose from inward self-expression to outward salutatory prose with a grand narrative significance.Landscape,as a medium of cultural transmission,endowed with political and cultural significance,is no longer as an aesthetic object viewed by the subject with a purely natural feature,but as a field of cultural competition conveying invisible political discourse forces such as national memory and national identity.