"Living as Summer Flowers and Dying as Autumn Leaves":On the Aesthetics of Death in Chi Zijian's The Last Quarter of the Moon
Chi Zijian wrote about the withering and death of many lives in The Last Quarter of the Moon.The rise and fall of the Ewenki ethnic group and the cycle of life are described in the novel as calm and compassionate.The author portrays the fragility and tenacity of life,the impermanence and eternity of death,and the reproduction and hardships of a nation from a broad cultural perspective.Analyzing the death imagery and funeral ceremony in The Last Quarter of the Moon from the perspective of death aesthet-ics not only reveals the wildness and tenderness of the Ewenki culture,but also allows one to feel the great love of this nomadic nation for death in difficult survival.Thus we can comprehend the eternal spirit of tran-scending death and prioritizing life.
The Last Quarter of the Moondeath aestheticselegyspiritual faramita
NETL
NSTL
万方数据
