A Study on Shanbei Folk Culture in Ordinary World by Lu Yao
『平凡的世界』는 중국 當代작가 路遙의 생전 마지막 소설작품이자 유일한 장편소설이기도
하다. 『平凡的世界』는 한 때 인기를 얻었던 『人生』의 후속작품으로 작가는 陝北 농촌마을의
一草一木과 거기에서 살아가는 사람들의 생활상을 묘사하는 한편, 그 일상과 함께 어우러져
나타나는 陝北의 민속문화를 자연스럽게 묘사해내기도 하였다. 陝北은 수 천 년의 역사변천
을 거친, 특수한 지리적 환경을 가진 지역으로, 해방전쟁시기 革命區라는 신분까지 더해지면
서 민속문화가 형성되었고 변화를 거듭하였다. 이렇게 형성된 陝北의 민속문화는 陝北 사람
들의 생활 속 깊이 자리 잡게 되었고 영향을 주기까지 하였다. 路遙도 바로 이러한 陝北의
민속문화 속에서 성장하였고, 陝北에 대한 사랑이 지극한 나머지 고향의 경물을 담은 『平凡的世界』를 창작하게 되었다. 따라서 路遙는 『平凡的世界』에서 陝北의 음식·가무·주거·언어문
화를 묘사함으로써 陝北 농촌마을 사람들의 순박한 삶을 노래한 동시에 당시 시대 에 처한
陝北 농촌의 현실을 고발하기도 하였다.
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