Abstract
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant is one of the masterpieces of Yu Huas late pioneering literature, which has an important place in the history of contemporary Chinese literature. This article takes the analysis of Chronicle of a Blood Merchant as its research direction, mainly using Heideggers existentialist philosophical theory as the core theoretical support and following the principle of seeing the big picture in a small way to analyse the work. By analysing the imagery of blood in the text, this paper identifies the triple meaning of blood in work as representing life, kinship and the value of life. In the second and third parts, this essay further analyses and discusses the character Xu Sanguans concept of death and his transcendence of death, as well as the sense of life and its values, conveyed throughout the work, by analysing the characters act of selling blood. Ultimately, the paper concludes that the characters life consciousness is based on a struggle with suffering and self-giving and is guided by a sense of life that leads to a transcendence of death.
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