As a result, they begin their elegiac literary creation in which they are seeking for the rent of the constancy and goodness of human nature rooted in the deep structure of Chinese culture with feudal society as its social background.

• 乡土社会既孕育了“京派”作家们自己生命中农耕文化情致，又承载了农耕文化所有美好的人性因素，既原型意义地构成作家的深层心理背景，又为其作品提供了土壤意义的意象体系和文化内涵。