莫言的长篇历史小说以及大多数中篇小说,承载着寻根者迫切的国族困境。《红高粱》中的挫败感,是作者回望故乡的传奇英雄期许中国复兴的心理反应。在《红高粱家族》、《丰乳肥臀》这两部有关中国历史的宏大神话叙事中,莫言利用基督教意象或“基督徒”角色,道出他心目中基督教在中国的处境,指出今天的中国是中国与西方“杂交”所生。在对中国现代性困境的思索中,莫言以西方之“用”来寻找纯正的中国之“体”。 Mo Yan’s long historical novels and most of the novella bear the pressing predicament of national roots. The frustration in “Red Sorghum” is the psychological reaction that the author looks back to the legendary hero of his hometown and hopes for the rejuvenation of China. In the grand myths about the history of China, such as the “Red Sorghum family” and “Breastfeeding, buttocks”, Mo Yan uses the image of Christianity or “Christian” to reveal the situation of Christianity in China and point out Today’s China is born in China and the West “hybrid ”. In thinking about the dilemma of China’s modernity, Mo Yan sought the pure “body” of China by using the “use” of the West.