Abstract:
Lu Yao, Chen Zhongshi and Jia Pingwa, three writers in Shaanxi, who succeeded the spirit of Liu Qing as a local forerunner writer, have always been concerned with life of the era and survival context of farmers and tried their best to picturesquely record and historically represent states of survival and spiritual call of “men” in different periods. Surpassing the forerunners and breaking themselves, they have enriched and developed realism. Meanwhile, they prove with their respective achievements in literary writing that realism is still of great power of life in continuous evolution. The three Shaanxi writers’ experiences of literary writing emphatically show that searching for one’s own sentence, namely, peculiar discovery of “men” in life and peculiar expression of this discovery, is the most important factor for realism to survive, steadily develop and to be handed down.
