Emerging from the Journey of Confusion: My Views on Naxi Literary Creation
This essay critically surveys nearly a century of Naxi literary creation, noting that poetry and prose have developed relatively well, while novels, drama, and film literature remain severely underdeveloped—arguably never achieving a "zero breakthrough." Compared to Dongba culture, historiography (exemplified by Fang Guoyu), and painting (exemplified by Zhou Lin), Naxi literary achievements and reputation lag significantly. The author attributes the strength of poetry and prose partly to the Naxi ancestors' nomadic, migratory lifestyle suited to sung verse, but more decisively to the deep influence of Han Confucian ideology and the imperial examination system, which enshrined poetry and prose as orthodox literature while dismissing novels and drama as frivolous "idle books." This internalized Han "literary taste" discouraged Naxi engagement with fiction and theater, leaving the once uniquely creative Dongba-culture-producing nation culturally adrift, unable to fully portray Naxi psychology, character, and worldview through long-form fiction or film.
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