路遙의 『平凡的世界』에 나타난 陝北 민속문화 고찰

Abstract

Ordinary World is the last and only full-length novel authored by Lu Yao, a Chinese novelist of the time. Ordinary World is a sequel to Life that once gained popularity. In the novel, the author portrayed villagers and their daily routines in a rural village in Shanbei while naturally describing folk culture in Shanbei that harmonizes with daily life. Shanbei is an area that has experienced historical vicissitudes for thousands of years on the back of the unique geological environment. As it became a revolutionary district during the era of a liberation war, folk culture was created to go through a series of changes. The resultant folk culture in Shanbei took a deep root in people’s everyday life in Shanbei while having impact on them. Lu Yao grew up amid this folk culture in Shanbei and became attached to Shanbei so much that it authored Ordinary World that contains the scenery of seasons in his home town. Accordingly, the natural environment and people’s lives portrayed in the novel were all originated from realities of life that the author experienced in person, and the novel accentuated reality to the extent that it reenacted a village in Shanbei. While writing Ordinary World, the author used ‘Shanbei’ as a keyword to describe foods, dance, housing and language culture in Shanbei while portraying people’s humble life in a village in Shanbei as well as the harsh reality of a rural area in Shanbei at that time.