《檀香刑》是莫言的代表作之一,他用细腻的笔法还原历史事件,再现了传统的行书文化,同时直击政治斗争的残忍和民众的无知愚昧,向读者演绎了一场极刑背后的悲剧。莫言的《檀香刑》以宏大的结构,细腻的笔法,再现了明末年间反殖民斗争的历史事件。地点选取在山东高密县,围绕对孙丙实施檀香刑为中心,展示了中国王朝政治没落中的诸多惊心动魄的事件,包括戊戌变法、义和团运动、外国殖民者修筑铁路等。莫言在小说里直击中国传统的刑术文化,毫不避讳甚至津 “Sandalwood punishment” is one of the representative works of Mo Yan. With fine brushwork, he restored the historical events, reproduced the traditional culture of scripture, and at the same time, he attacked the cruelty of the political struggle and ignorance ignorance of the public and interpreted the tragedy behind the death penalty. Mo Yan’s “Sandalwood Penalty” reproduces the historical events of the anti-colonial struggles during the late Ming and the end of the year with its grand structure and delicate brushwork. The selection of locations in Gaomi County, Shandong Province, centered on the implementation of Sandalwood Punishment on Sun Bing, shows many struggling events such as the Reform Movement of 1898, the Boxer Rebellion and the foreign colonists’ building of railways. Mo Yan in the novel to watch the Chinese traditional criminal culture, without any taboo or even Tianjin