From the perspective of cultural memory, Jiuguo is a written work to the past, through the “baby feast” symbol of the deep history of critical and cultural continuity, with reflection on the future to guide the practical significance of the future. The author used the collage of narrative techniques to “LEE Yidou” personal memory writing interspersed at different levels of the story, the fictional character “Writer Mo Yan” with “LEE Yidou” wrote “the babyboy as food” commercialized memory and reconstruction “eating baby” this “Eating People” narrative tradition, revealing the appearance of multiple characters, lack of physiological function under the cover of all the common trauma of the characters, that is, the loss of moral values. From the past memories of “Eating People for the Banquet” to the fictional world of “baby feast”, the author borrows the text media and literary narrative to achieve oral memory to the writing of the carrier conversion, revealing the interaction between individual memory and group memory dynamic construction process, and ultimately point to “person” from the traditional cultural proposition of “people”.

Mo Yan; Jiuguo; the memory of “Eating Babies”; the culture memory; the symbol of memory