孙犁是一个始终保持人性关怀创作特点的作家。他尽管书写战争和政治事件,但关注的中心却是人,而且,他的作品饱含着同情、悲悯等人文关怀精神,其艺术特点也与之有内在的一致。孙犁这一创作特点最根本的思想资源是中国乡村文化,其内涵与西方人道主义思想有同有异。给孙犁最恰当的命名是“中国乡村人道主义作家”。孙犁的人道主义思想蕴含着中国文化的独特内涵,比较那些纯西方思想资源的人道主义作家,孙犁的创作更能融入日常生活中,也更能为中国大众所接受和认可。当然,孙犁文学的人道主义也存在完整性和深刻性的不足之处,但它已经呈现出了独特的思想和文学魅力,具有超越时代的价值意义。

Sun Li is a writer who always keeps the characteristics of human care. Although he wrote about wars and political events, his focus was on people. Moreover, his works are full of the spirit of humanity such as sympathy and compassion, and the artistic characteristics are also in line with it. The most fundamental ideological resource of Sun Li's creative feature is the Chinese rural culture, which has connotations with western humanitarian thoughts in terms of similarities and differences. The most appropriate name for Sun Li is “The Chinese rural humanitarian writer”. Sun Li's humanitarianism contains the unique connotation of Chinese culture. Compared with those writers with pure western humanitarian ideology, Sun's creation is more integrated into Chinese people's daily life, and is more accepted and recognized by the Chinese people. Of course, the humanitarianism performance in his works also has some shortcomings of integrity and profundity, but it has shown its unique ideological and literary charm, which has far-reaching value throughout the time.