He has created poems such as Shell, Youth Without Complaints, Qilixiang, Nine Articles of Time, In that Far Away Place, Song of the River, There is a Song, Sanxian, For Happiness, My Home is on the Plateau, Mountain Moon, Zen and Andante.
Brush stroke characteristics
In Xi Murong's prose poems, it is as illusory as a dream, as if there is nothing, far and near.
Do people have past lives? We don't have to make scientific discussions and judgments, just; In a word, the poet expresses her passionate love for her lover through the existence of past lives.
This love has always been ignored: "If you are a woman picking lotus flowers in Jiangnan, I am the one you miss under your wrist.
This love contains a complaint: "If you are the urchin who plays truant, I am the brand-new marble that fell out of your schoolbag and watched you go away unconsciously in the grass by the roadside."
This love is willing to sacrifice: "If you are a monk facing the wall, I am the burning incense in front of the temple and spend a quiet time with you." .
The three juxtaposed images are all beautifully worded and fresh in style, especially putting lovers and themselves in an unequal position, highlighting their initiative and violence.
, greatly enhanced the emotional penetration.
Because of this, "when we meet in this life, we always feel that there are some unfinished frontiers, which are just in a trance and cannot be identified in detail, so I will tell you one by one." This indistinguishable and unspeakable feeling has played a fantastic role.
It is also because the descriptions of this life and previous lives are staggered, which gives me the feeling that it is difficult to distinguish between distance, reality and ideal, and mind and reason.
Evaluation of his works
Fluent language expression and exquisite prose book breath linger in your mind. It gives people meaningful language and inspires people to think rationally about life problems. Generally speaking, Xi Murong's articles give people a puzzling impression of frankness; Subjective feelings are satisfied, which leads to unconscious identity and deep thinking about life in the depths of the soul. The language is extremely beautiful, easy to understand, clear in structure and thinking, and really thought-provoking. Reveal the true impression between the lines; True feelings can always touch people!
First of all, from the structural point of view.
One is closer to the main idea than the other, and the other is the evolutionary process from concrete to abstract. There is a good transition plan to make readers read simply and clearly, without losing the author's expression of his writing attitude; This is precisely the embodiment of Xi Murong's writing style with clear structure and clear thinking.
Take a closer look at these five parts, in addition to close ties, there are also their own independence. Each part embodies the author's point of view. For example, in the first part, the author puts forward that "there should be such a definite moment in life".
Second, appreciate from the way of expression
It is a narrative style, which embodies the true and wise characteristics of philosophical prose; There is also the delicate beauty of women's emotions.
The author mainly adopts the way of narration and discussion, and narrates according to the extension process of personal thoughts; It is necessary to put forward opinions before making comments.
The technique of expression is described in detail, which is obvious in the first part. For example, paragraphs 3 and 4 of part I. There is also the lyricism that prose should have, for example, it is obvious to use exclamation marks to calculate sentences!
Third, appreciate from the content theme.
The general content trend of this article is also obvious. Starting from my ordinary life, I describe my ordinary secular life and rich spiritual world, and have a unique understanding of my attitude towards life.
Because I sketch with a pencil under the moon, my thoughts are also rendered in this environment ("what a good moonlight!") "such a beautiful world is in front of my eyes, neither illusory nor a dream, but incredible." ), slowly spread out; This naturally opens the layout, simple and clear, simple and true. EMk '
With the extension of thought, the question "should there be such a clear moment in life" has aroused the author's inner memories. "I like to tell stories to a class of students who have just started oil painting classes at the age of nineteen or twenty." . The essence of expounding my personal views on art and excellent artists is to further mention the concept of life: "When you are moved, you should also learn to choose what you want and what you have to give up." 47
The third part is an exceptional narrative discussion on the theme of the second part. At the same time, it also triggered the following thinking: "Otherwise, how can we calm the envy and jealousy burning in our hearts?"
In the fourth part, the author declares: "I believe that artists are jealous people." Put forward another understanding and attitude towards jealousy from the artist's point of view! 6wyW
In fact, being jealous will make you work hard and show your strong side. "Use my life to prove to myself that I can do as well as them, or even better." Life will have a more wonderful life! America) C>F
The fifth part mentions the preference for "artists who work hard silently". Describes the beauty of artists who work hard in the studio. "Artists have already entered middle age, but they are still silently walking this road that they started from a very young age." Finally, the author gave a real sigh: "After knowing the essence of life, human freedom should be infinite!" This is the most unforgettable sentence in Write to Life! V
Life should be free and dare to go beyond bondage; It is also bright and clean, minimalist, and always full of humanistic care; While enjoying the secular life, enjoy the rich spiritual world.
Fourth, the overall appreciation
Xi Murong writes more about love, life and homesickness, which is extremely beautiful, fresh and easy to understand, so there are many readers. This article is one of her more successful works! I wrote about the freedom of human life, the courage to transcend, simplicity, full enjoyment of secular life, and efforts to enrich my spiritual world. Because she teaches oil painting, most of the angles in this article are from the artistic point of view, citing some facts to talk about life problems. Xi Murong's unique literary creation and achievements are obvious to all.
Writing skills
I. Introduction
Xi Murong, a Mongolian girl who came to Ming 'an Banner of Chahar League. 198 1 year, she published her first book of poetry, Qi Li Xiang, which caused a whirlwind in Taiwan Province Province and the sales performance was amazing. 1982, she published the first collection of essays, Traces of Growth, which showed her another creative form and continued the gentle and indifferent style of new poetry.
Xi Murong's poems have always attracted much attention. However, in recent years, her poetry output has decreased and her prose works have been increasing. There are also many articles commenting on her poems. In fact, Xi Murong's prose has another flavor. This paper will discuss the characteristics and writing skills of Xi Murong's prose works. This paper analyzes the characteristics of his prose works, such as the important position of "flowers" in his poems. In addition, it also discusses Xi Murong's writing skills, such as the collocation of colors, the use of interrogative sentences and the use of repetitive sentences.
Second, the characteristics-the description of flowers and the use of colors
Xi Murong's prose works have two characteristics, one is the description of flowers, and the other is the use of color words. In the description of "flower", all kinds of flowers can be used in this paper, among which lotus is the most closely related to her. Because Xi Murong is a painter, the use of color is naturally more appropriate than other writers, which forms one of her characteristics.
(A) the description of flowers
In Xi Murong's prose, besides people, flowers are often taken as the object, or flowers are interspersed in the text to imply some symbolic meaning.
The whole tree is full of white flowers, and the dark green leaves set off the white flowers so brightly that I can see them from a distance. …
What a big tree, deeply planted on the cliff by the sea. Decades ago, when those who crossed the ocean first began to live on this small island, this cliff must be covered with this coastal plant, right?
I think that when those people first started to build their cabins under this tree, they must have thought it was just a temporary stay and that they could leave soon, so they built them in such an embarrassing and chaotic way, right?
Xi Murong likes to combine the characteristics of a certain flower with a certain type of story. Although the flowers in the story may only play a static role, they occupy an important position in the whole text. For example, in A Story of Flowers, Xi Murong wrote a story about a man and a woman, which began with the blooming of epiphyllum and ended with its withering.
Years later, every time I smell the same flower fragrance, the girl will think of the boy who picked the epiphyllum under the moon. They haven't seen each other since that night.
He shouldn't give her an epiphyllum. It is said that this is an unfortunate sign.
Xi Murong's feelings for flowers are expressed in the form of stories. Flowers also act as catalysts. For readers, even if they have never experienced a similar or identical situation, they can have a deeper feeling through the atmosphere created by Xi Murong, which may be one of the factors that have always been loved by Xi Murong's works.
Every writer has something he likes, and Xi Murong has a special liking for lotus flowers. She paints and writes lotus flowers. However, she seldom praised Lotus alone. She always associates the lotus with others or brings it out with something. In literary criticism, there is a saying that "writing is like a person", with special emphasis on the relationship between the writer's living environment and the style of his works. To explore the relationship between this phenomenon and Xi Murong, we can find the answer from Xi Murong's living environment and growing process.
That day was also the first time I saw the lotus pond in the botanical garden, standing next to the graceful lotus leaves in the pond. There is a vague and familiar smell in the air. Memories of my childhood visit to Xuanwu Lake with my father resurfaced, and the sunshine instantly became soft. I seem to have entered a different world, time is stagnant, and my heart is full of a trance-like homesickness.
For me, reading and writing poems is like lotus leaves, which can bring me into a different world every time, where there is no burden in my heart. I just like to relive the trance-like sweetness and sadness again and again.
In the era of picking hibiscus in the river, lotus leaves and lotus flowers should be like this. Lotus is really my homesickness, homesickness for an ancient era and ancient love.
I don't know if I saw too many lotus flowers in the painting, or I waded into the river to pick hibiscus many times in ancient times. There is always a strange feeling that Lian is a familiar friend and falls in love at first sight, reluctant to leave. It has been thousands of years.
Dongpo loves the breeze and the bright moon alone, and Zhou Dunyi has Ailian. For writers, what they like, what they love and what they like is not only a literal explanation, but also a deeper meaning, which is the tacit understanding that they can meet and communicate with writers. "Lotus" is just like this for Xi Murong.
Xi Murong published a book entitled "Keepsake", which was entirely about writing and praising the lotus. The content of this book is to use Xi Murong's articles and brush strokes to create the atmosphere of the book, and to show his praise and love for the lotus. She not only writes about scenery objectively and meticulously, but also writes about feelings subjectively, so that the whole work presents a feeling of blending scenes and a situation of integration of things and me.
I go to see it every morning, watching its color change from a layer of turquoise deep purple to water red, soft powder to gray, and watching its petals from tight bud to blooming to dying, as if watching a life from a teenager to the end day by day.
So that's how time passed. All the days are getting darker and darker. Only when the lotus is in full bloom, those memories, those floating around, will come back in a hurry with all the details I knew I had remembered at that time, or thought I had forgotten for many years.
In Xi Murong's works, the characters, events, time and place are often the same, but she uses different words to describe them, cuts in from all angles, and writes completely different tastes and feelings. For example, The Sound of Flowers and Lotus Pond are both huge lotus sketches in Mr. Lin Yushan's 80-year retrospective exhibition. In The Sound of Flowers, she was attracted by this painting, so I want to ask Mr. Lin Yushan what mood this painting was painted in.
When the teacher said this, he had just returned to Taiwan Province Province from Japan. They went to the mountainous area near Chiayi with his young friends and stayed by a lotus pond for a few days.
The teacher added:' At that time, I was young and wanted to find out everything. We heard that the lotus is the most beautiful when it first blooms, and there is a sound when it blooms, so they slept in the same clothes by the pool all night, and got up before dawn to watch the flowers bloom and wait for the sound of the flowers.'
I never knew there was a sound when the lotus was in full bloom. Did the teacher really make a noise that day?
I heard you. This is a very light and subtle sound, but it can be heard. ………'
In the article "Lotus Pond", she took the way of reversing the story, pulling the time back to July of the fifth year when Mr. Lin Yushan listened to the lotus flowers, slowly telling a story that happened in the Japanese occupation era word by word, and then pulling the scene back to May of 199 1 year, which is the venue of the retrospective exhibition of eighty. She wrote about the Zhang family who collected this painting and took good care of this' lotus pond'. Xi Murong used her flexible brushwork to record the whole story of the huge lotus sketch and witnessed it.
Once in a blue moon!
Sixty-one years later, at noon in early summer, the exhibition hall in the art museum was particularly cool because of the scorching sun outside, and the artist and his paintings met again.
At that time, the young painter standing by the pool, now his hair has frosted, but his eyes are still clear, still hiding his yearning for life and beauty. His works of art are hung on the walls of many exhibition halls in the art museum, and he must show them to his students and audience one by one.
However, before turning around and leaving the painting "Lotus Pond", the white-haired artist suddenly paused, looked back at the lotus pond, then turned around with a smile and led us on.
Teacher, did you hear anything?
The Sound of Flowers was published in 1989, and Lotus Pond is the latest work of the author 1996. After nearly seven years, Xi Murong once again showed his feelings in different ways. If she is not deeply in love with the lotus, how can she not forget it for a long time!
Xi Murong once mentioned in the preface of Traces of Growth:' I am a person who likes to look back'. This also confirms that her works are full of memories from time to time except the example of Lotus Pond mentioned above. When I was a child, my father took her to Xuanwu Lake to see lotus flowers, which was often written in articles. It is the same thing to use different brushwork to cut into the time before and after, but it is not easy to get bored because of the different angles of writing methods.
Xuanwu Lake at dusk, sitting between his father's legs, his father paddling with his hands.
The boat set out from Liu Yin and flowed quietly on the lake covered with lotus leaves. Twilight makes everything fuzzy and quiet. Holding a full lotus in a small hand, in a small mind, happiness on earth is as full as lotus and as fragrant as lotus seed.
The earliest lotus in my memory should be the one my father gave me when I was five years old and took me boating in Xuanwu Lake.
My father's arms are so safe and warm that I can monopolize his arms. At the age of five, I was an uneasy surprise and pride. With memories, there was a grayish purple yellow twilight on the lake.
Xi Murong's love for "flowers" has obviously become a distinctive feature in her works. For her, flowers are the most important bag in her memory, and there is a feeling of reluctance behind every flower. And flowers also represent things that moved Xi Murong, or people that he deeply remembered. Such works are easy to attract readers' attention and are naturally popular.
Begonia belonged to my mother when I was a child. ..... and never had such a cruel war, never had so many years of displacement, never had a nation endured so much suffering, so none of the girls of that generation could realize their dreams. ..... I want to buy not only the potted flower, but also its beautiful scenery, its ancient and fragrant old country, and I finally understand my mother's heart.
All the memories will appear in front of my eyes with its fragrance. I think I may not love flowers, but all the lost time. Behind every flower, there are my cherished memories.
Many years have passed ... the roses are still there, and everything that belonged to that summer will come back. I can almost smell the pine needles in the forest in the sun. ……
Before flowers, I am a contented person.
(B) the use of color matching
Walking into Xi Murong's colorful world, we can find her warm style. At the same time, as a painter, her description of flower color is more sensitive and delicate than that of ordinary writers, which makes her works have a more vivid feeling. The construction of its image is mostly based on the use of color, and the articles presented to readers are no longer just rigid flat words, but three-dimensional pictures.
It is a deja vu mountain forest, full of wild flowers. The slender and tall pedicels are dotted with strings of wind chimes from purple to light red to pure white, lined with turquoise weeds, and the dark green behind them is a charming picture after another.
The whole grassland is endless, except for the blue sky, white clouds and green grass, the brownish yellow of some earth and stone on the distant mountain and the grayish green of several miscellaneous trees.
Chrysanthemums with horizontal branches are painted on a dark brown background. The branches are dark green and the petals should be white, but in the painter's painting, there is a layer of Qiu Xiangse, which seems to be dyed yellow by time.
In autumn, my father and I walked hand in hand on the outskirts of Bonn. The weather is fine, the big trees in the courtyard of the roadside people are golden, and the thin white swings hang quietly on the green grass.
When he said this, it was sunny summer noon, and the sun shone down from the green layers of tall branches, and there was a layer of light and shadow like jade in the forest [2 1].
The sky is so clean, it is the clear blue, the grass is so soft, and it is the delicate green. Boys and girls in white shirts and gray sweatpants are sitting under the tree. When the wind blows, the pink and purple petals of hoof nails fall gently and softly.
Xi Murong used the description of colors and flowers to make abstract thoughts convey a clear and definite image. When reading Xi Murong's works, readers can easily get into the feelings she wants to express, and the contribution of color is indispensable.
Three writing skills
Xi Murong's writing style is good at using repetitive sentences, which makes her articles present a soothing musical style and full of pastoral sentiment. In the management of syntax, she not only pays attention to the overall effect, but also pursues the beauty of words. All her articles are centered on characters, and it is easy to see her sincerity in simple narration, which has the characteristics of blunt prose.
Perhaps because he is a poet at the same time, Xi Murong's prose will have a sense of "jumping" intentionally or unintentionally, omitting the conjunctions needed in the prose, or using the arrangement of words to integrate poetry into the prose, which is even more unique.
In Xi Murong's works, "the use problem" is a major feature. Whether it appears in the text or at the end of the text, in fact, what she wants to express may be a vague mentality. She is not only asking herself, but also asking the readers questions. In particular, when Xi Murong uses questions, he usually doesn't use them only once, but often uses them repeatedly and connects them to create a heavy atmosphere covering the whole text.
What kind of women do they wave goodbye to? Under the snow-white apple blossoms, or on the hillside with fragrance, did they ever think that such a wave was a blank for more than 30 years when they waved?
I'm also peeling myself off layer by layer. I want to know, which floor is the real me? Is it a happy woman who is a wife and mother? Or the woman who is careful to be a student and a teacher?
Is that the woman who paints oil paintings in the studio? Or the woman who keeps a diary word by word under the lamp?
Is it the woman holding a bunch of lilies and crying like rain in the dusk? Or the woman riding a bicycle alone and walking behind the moon with a smile on the winding mountain road?
What kind of person am I? Which one is the real me? Who can really understand my love and cherish for this world? Who would really believe it?
Sixty years is really a bit by bit, bit by bit, day after day. Why do you run like a torrent when you look back?
What is the teacher thinking when he is standing in front of the painting?
Is this a life I couldn't understand when I was young?
Where's the carefree and confident little wild horse?
Can I have enough wisdom to overcome the current predicament? Can you go back to that vast and quiet sky? Can you regain the lonely mood of running around in Sha Xue? What's more, I cherish the creative life?
In the quiet night, I asked myself softly, can I still do it?
Constantly asking yourself also gives readers the opportunity to ask themselves. Xi Murong didn't and didn't want to resort to writing for the answer, because different people and different time and space environments may have different answers to the same question. She always leaves readers some room for imagination and thinking. Therefore, Xi Murong's article is full of words and meanings.
Four. conclusion
Xi Murong is lyrical, and the techniques used in his works express this message. Repeated sentences and questions are used, the text is full of jumping feeling, and there are strange sentences inadvertently. Although the style is prose, it is very poetic, which is why Xi Murong's prose works are different from other prose writers.
For Xi Murong, "flower" is not just a flower, but personified and reappeared in his works. When he was just a still life, I didn't know he was actually a bystander. Xi Murong drew and wrote, just like her bosom friend, and he got its response. Looking at flowers instead of flowers should be a unique feature of Xi Murong.