Traditional ideas of returning to roots and worshiping ancient in main China and Hong Kong in the XX century (on the example of fiction literature)

This article examines how Chinese traditional culture ideas such as returning to the roots and veneration of antiquity are reflected in the culture and, in particular, the literature of China and Hong Kong in XX century. For a long time, China was a closed country, and only by the end of XIX century started Chinese people to get acquaintance to Western ideas, which had a great influence on the minds of young generation and became a catalyst for changes in the culture and in the life of Chinese society. The author of the article touches on the problem of choice faced by the Chinese people: whether to abandon the old culture completely as a culture of oppressors, or to preserve its best achievements? At some point, China and Hong Kong, whose common national characteristics are determined by their common history and culture, went completely different ways, which are due to different historical and social conditions of their development in the XX century. The author traces the differences in the literary trends of the XX century in Mainland and in Hong Kong, analyzes the phenomenon of homesickness in the works of Hong Kong writers and shows what transformations took place in the reflection of these ideas in the culture of the XX century in mainland China and in Hong Kong.