What attracts me most in Wang Zengqi's works is his language style. Wang Zengqi's works can read life. This is due to the author's sincerity to life. What he writes about is the life he is familiar with: the small town of Gaoyou in the old times, Kunming, a border town in the southwest, old teachers and friends in the cultural world, teachers and students of the Southwest Associated University, opera actors from the Peking Opera Troupe in Beijing; White Horse Temple in Kunming, etc. There are always shadows of his own past life in his works, so he writes with real cognition and emotion.
Wang Zengqi's works, I read more are prose. Below I will take a few examples from his prose, analyze the language, and express my feelings and opinions.
That dragon's claw tree is mine alone. I am familiar with all his good points, and know which pose is suitable for that branch. Clouds pass through the trees. Gecko crawling on grapes. The apricots are ripe. The vines of Polygonum multiflorum climbed up. The stalagmites were so black. A fly on a spider web. Where's the spider? The beetle ate a leaf for a long time. Is the leaf a little sweet, so tender. Where is the gorse so lively, how many bees! The goldfish spit out a bubble and burst, and we went to hunt for goldfish bugs in the afternoon. The yellow color of the citron flower seems to be a little hesitant. The other is that the flowers are floating down, and the citron flowers are falling. The flowers fall on the blades of grass, and the grass bows and bounces slightly. A "Garden"
The prose "The Garden" is quite interesting to read, and the language is very lively. The depiction of the scene is very good. Although the text is printed on the paper and the paper is flat, what you see in front of you is three-dimensional, fresh and alive. I feel like I can touch them with my hands, and the scenes created in "The Garden" really appeared in front of my eyes, evoking the softest part of my heart, as if I was back in childhood. Wang Zengqi's works are alive, because his language is plain and life, and the things he describes are the same, ordinary and small, but they contain a huge power that can move people's hearts. Wang Zengqi feels the happiness and warmth in life with his heart, and observes life closely. From life but higher than life.
Hutongs are networks running through the streets. It is very close to the bustling city, big brother soy sauce, about two pounds of eggs or something, it is very convenient but it seems to be far away. There is no heavy traffic here, it is always quiet. Occasionally there are "calling heads" who shave their heads and picks (like a large pair of tweezers, rubbing them with an iron rod, they make a bang); , shaking sound); . the sound of a piccolo played by blind fortune-tellers (now long gone). Not only did these voices not seem noisy, but the hutongs became quieter. 1 - "Hutong Culture"
The scenes in the hutongs described by Wang Zengqi are very lively and real. The characteristics of the characters are very distinct. Although there is only a short sentence to describe each character, he captures the details of the characters and the soul of the characters. Wang Zengqi's attention to customs reflects his love for the collective life and culture of the nation. Wang Zengqi said in "Pickles and Culture": The culture we want to express in the novel is firstly the present, which is alive; secondly, it is yesterday's, which is not long gone. The reason is very simple, because we can see, touch, taste, and think thoroughly. The "Hutong Culture" written by Wang Zengqi is simple in language and close to life. He also hopes to pass on this culture to more people in the simplest and most authentic way, so that this culture can be better continued.
As Wang Zengqi said: what he pursues is not depth, but harmony. He recorded life in simple and down-to-earth language. Gui Youguang's "writing ordinary personnel affairs in a light style" is also highly praised by him. Wang Zeng's literary works show another possibility of writing in modern Chinese, which is to draw nourishment from living tradition and living life.
