The Scar Literature After "the Cultural Revolution"

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Brief Introduction

*During the “Cultural Revolution”, many educated youngsters were involved in the “countryside sports”. The emergence of the "scar literature" directly resulted from it, which mainly describes the tragic experience of the educated youth, intellectuals, persecuted officials and ordinary people in urban and rural areas.

Representative works

* The representative works :《The Head Teacher》《The Scar》《Xu Mao and His Daughters》《Kid from the Forest》

One early “Scar Literature” was named “The Head teacher”，published in 1977,which was commented to have the similar influence as “The Madman's Diary ” by Lu Xun.

General Comment

*“The Scar Literature”  focused on the superficial description full of emotional anger,  lacking in profound thoughts about the tragic. But it brought up a series of  social problems, thus  featured with the nature of humanity.
Scar literature is the first new literary trend of thought in the new era. In the new period of socialism, it is the historical starting point of the cultural revolution. This kind of destruction of the soul, especially easy to cause a painful heart trauma. But this is only after breaking the shackles of the spirit, the real ideological liberation, people can realize this scar has multiple, deep. This is the historical origin of the trauma literature eruption.  
At the beginning of the new era, Chinese people in the political liberation, but due to the two "whatevers" is not overturned, "the dictatorship of the proletariat to the wrong theory of revolution" is still popular, so literary theory and creation is still subject to serious constraints, resulting in the strange phenomenon of "East West sunrise rain". With the convening of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee "truth standard" big discussion and party, contemporary China really a turnaround, the literature to embark on the broad road. This kind of social situation is the era background of scar literature.  
In the new period, literature must firstly be faced with the cultural revolution, so the trauma literature naturally takes the historical period of the Cultural Revolution as an important part of the cultural revolution. Literature at the time, or to the ups and downs of the story, or to the bloody scenes of up to ten years of turmoil for the people of China caused by the spirit  
Luxinhua trauma to be "grapheme blood, the sound of tears," a strong indictment, to run amuck the ultra left route to be condemned. This is the core idea of scar literature.