湘楚文化与湖南文学的承继创新

湖南文学的产生和发展，离不开湘楚文化的孕育与濡养。湖南文学在承继湘楚文化本质精神中，深受到屈原楚辞强烈的爱国主义精神和宋明理学倡导的经世致用主张的影响，由此导致了历代湖南文学家的匡世济民的自觉襟怀和以政治家的眼光来观察社会、指点江山的豪气壮志。现当代湖南文学最突出的成就就是对祖国前途和民族命运的深切关注，对社会生活和传统文化的深入开凿，对文学体裁和创作技法的积极创新。

The Inheritance and Creation of Xiang-Chu Culture and Hunan Literature

The development a nd production of Hunan literature cannot depart from the raising and cultivating of Xiang-Chu culture.In the inheritance of an essential spirit of Xiang-Chu cul ture,Hunan literature was deeply influen ced by strong patriotism of Qu Yuan's Chu Ci and the pragmatism initiated by t he philosophy of Song & Ming Dynasties. Therefore,it resulted in many literature writers in Hunan having conscious bosom in saving common people and watch the so ciety with statesman's point of view and gaving advice to the country.The signif icant achievement of the Hunan contempor ary iterature lies in the deep concern t o the future of the motherland and the f ortune of the nation,the deep studying o f the social life and the traditional cu lture as well as the active of the literature style and writing techn ique.