Life Form under the Cover of Divinity:The Subject of Life in SHEN Cong-wen's Novels

The geographical environment of Hunan Province(especially western Hunan) developed habits and customs in the Chinese culture tradition : belief of witch ghost and heavy offers of sacrifice with obscenity.The populace had pan-god ideas generally and thought that there were unique relations between heaven and the earth,between gods and humans,between mountains and rivers and even between animals and humans.Human beings as the sons of nature did not need any individual will,they should obey nature and concern all human affairs to God.Stemming from this kind of survival ideas when facing various human affairs,they would always make the best of the bad bargains.Similar to accepting happiness and health in their life,they accepted disasters and pains with ease and composure.Now the local novel writers have given their attention to this kind of phenomenon.