Contemporary authors in East Zhejiang occupy a considerable weight in the overall rise of modern literature history due to the nourishment of local culture, transformation of modern society, personal education and original experience and other factors, combining to cause an important phenomenon worthy of attention. Mature writers of Zhejiang East had many members ,different creative ideas and styles, while keeping a strong "Zhe Dong Feng" feature. Their writings of folk culture in east Zhejiang paying special attention to the developing civil society was an important way for them to think and care about the people, an enlightenment originated from the popular call to save the country at that time.This paper focuses on the folk cultural content of the people with the local characteristics which is created by the modern writers of eastern Zhejiang , as the main topic, from the aspects ofsocial structure culture, folklore and folk literature, etc., and combs their concrete expression and meaning in the works.
Eastern Zhejiang authors such as Zhou, Zuo Ren,Lu Xun,and others created folk lore with local color, first opening to regional concerns such as the development of commercial economy, mode of production, economic concept changes leading to social structural shifts. Eastern Zhejiang writers keenly captured the “people” as an essential subject in the process of near modernization of mass psychology. Folk customs were undoubtedly the economic foundation for social transformation to update ,and so with the characteristics . The folk custom in their works not only shows the beauty of Zhejiang people, but also the motive force of narrative . The folklore in eastern Zhejiang is rich and colorful, enabling authors to make full use of these resources to reconstruct and integrate the folklore literature in their works, to absorb and to transform the folk literature spirit to achieve better understanding of folk values and creations.