Abstract
The stone image in the novel Gao Lao Zhuang is built on the basis of traditional Confucian culture. But it also marks the end of it. It is in peripatetic state of Taoism, but at the same time try to save the already close to collapse of the patriarchal culture as well. This paper tries to explain the function of the stone, a myth prototype, in Gao Lao Zhuang, through comparing the stone image in
Highlights
As we all know, the twentieth century was an era full of cultural conflict and remodeling
As one of the main images of this novel, the stone goes on stage, between conflict and suffering in culture. It reflects the difference between patriarchal culture and modern civilization
Under the constraints of patriarchal culture, we can see that values and attitudes of Gao Lao Zhuang people are out of order
Summary
The twentieth century was an era full of cultural conflict and remodeling. As a base camp of traditional culture, Gao Lao Zhuang has presented conflicts between barbarism and civilization for thousands of years. Confucians put the meaning and imitation into moral preaching, so in the modern fiction Gao Lao Zhuang, what the author wants to reveal and criticize is just about the illness of Confucian culture.
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